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Thuringia's CDU pushes through tax cuts with votes from AfD and FDP (www.tagesschau.de)
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Last Update: 14.09.2023 18:11 Uhr The Thuringian state parliament passed a tax cut by 46 votes to 42. The CDU's bill was pushed through with the votes of the AfD and FDP. The red-red-green government criticised the CDU for giving the AfD influence over the budget. The opposition has pushed through a tax cut in Thuringia against the will of the red-red-green government. A CDU bill for a lower real estate transfer tax received a majority in the state parliament in Erfurt because, in addition to the FDP, the AfD contributed the decisive votes. The government factions of the Left, SPD and Greens voted against. The tax cut was passed by 46 votes to 42. The Red-Red-Green Party criticised the CDU for giving the AfD, for the first time in the Thuringian state parliament, the power to exert concrete influence on the state budget. The AfD in Thuringia is classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as proven right-wing extremist. The CDU wants to reduce the real estate transfer tax in Thuringia from 6.5 to five percent. It points out that families purchasing their first owner-occupied home should be reimbursed the real estate transfer tax up to a certain maximum amount. According to forecasts by the governing coalitions, the state budget will thus be short between 48 and 60 million euros annually. It is unclear how this is to be compensated. More information coming soon.

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[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

The problem with that stance is that there are always behind the scenes talk, before the actual parliamentary vote. So the CDU and FDP-Legislators didn’t just coincidentally voted the same way as there AfD colleagues. There worked actively together to let this law pass.

I will accept that perhaps this might be the case in the specific case, and then I agree with your judgement.

But we have seen the AfD exploiting this in secret ballot votes, from Thuringia for the OG fuckup all the way to the recent repeat elections in Berlin where they wanted to cast doubts on whether the CDU-SPD coalition was voted in by them in the end (and iirc, they pulled something similar with a Left mayor in one of the districts).

I stand by my main thesis, the strategy has an expiry date and it also hasn't produced the expected results. AfD has grown despite this strategy. There needs to be an escalation of measures against them, because otherwise thinking that only refusing to vote the same way as them is enough to push them away verges increasingly on Aktionismus.

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