German politicians are fond of saying, “Work must be worth it.” But ever more people who work full-time need state benefits. And the new minimum wage hike is seen as disappointing.
German politicians are fond of saying, “Work must be worth it.” But ever more people who work full-time need state benefits. And the new minimum wage hike is seen as disappointing.
While that is, indeed, the core middle class, I don’t think it’s productive to act as if people earning more than the core (so exactly the 66k to 100k yearly) were somehow the bourgeouis that needed everything taken from them and taxed even harder. Especially considering that the capital tax in Germany is notoriously low. Not to mention the fact that everyone who earns >70k yearly will switch to private health insurance instead of the government health insurance, thus ultimately resulting in the state having even less money.