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There it is again: the state that knows how to live.
In Saarland, shops that are open during the lockdown should no longer be allowed to advertise products that the legislature considers to be articles outside of “everyday needs” from February 22nd.
The decision was made by Anke Rehlinger (SPD), Minister for Economic Affairs of the state.
The ban still has to be passed by the Council of Ministers there, not a real hurdle.
Violations face a fine of 10,000 euros.
It is interesting how Rehlinger justifies the measure: not primarily with the political all-purpose weapon "infection protection", but with "more justice" and "solidarity" of the opened shops with those who have closed because of the lockdown.
The former should no longer be allowed to advertise because the latter are not allowed to sell.
Amazingly, the shops that are barely surviving did not want to voluntarily put themselves to the knife of the "lockdown" policy, and that is why the Saarland government must now - unfortunately, unfortunately - legally demand the solidarity prescribed by the social democrats ...
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The sheer inconceivable extent of state interventionism shows how one measure leads to the next.
The freedom of the economy is shrugging more and more restricted.
In the social market economy, however, the freedom of the economy is the freedom of the consumer and thus that of the citizens.
It is further restricted every day.
"The idea that the state is a paternal authority, that it is everyone's guardian, comes from the socialists," explained Ludwig von Mises in 1958. I don't know whether books for Anke Rehlinger are articles of "everyday use", she could deny Mises but also order from Amazon.
PS: If anyone in the EU Commission or the German government had ordered the vaccine with the same severity, the end of the pandemic would have been foreseeable in spring.
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