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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Verdi country chief Martin Gross has called for the debt brake to be abolished in view of the Corona crisis.
"If you want a good future, you also have to invest in the future," Gross told the German press agency in Stuttgart.
In 2021 and in the election campaigns in Baden-Württemberg and in the federal government, the central question is who has to pay what price for the economic consequences of the pandemic.
“Whether a few wealthy people contribute a little more through a fairer tax policy.
Or whether everyone else has to suffer from the dismantling of the welfare state. "
The regulation has been included in the state constitution since May.
The debt brake, which is also anchored in the Basic Law, states that the country may not take on any new debts.
However, it provides for exceptions for borrowing for natural disasters and special emergency situations - provided there is a plan to repay the new debt.
During the corona crisis, the green-black coalition invoked the exception in order to be able to finance the costs of the pandemic with new debts.
A spokeswoman for the finance ministry said: "It is an express political will to have a budget again as soon as possible that can do without new debt."
A change to the state constitution is only possible with a two-thirds majority.
Trade unionist Gross said the debt brake was much more than just a symbol.
"Because in the next few years it will not be possible to shape politics without debt."
In recent years, the neoliberal black zero policy has ensured that the community is underfunded and is therefore becoming increasingly ailing: “From schools and kindergartens to public transport to hospitals and care facilities.
All for a few percent less national debt.
And everything to bring even more areas of services of general interest under privatization pressure. "
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