alt Hacker NewsJust because you accusse people to be "right wingers" because they don't want to fund bicycle lanes in foreign countries doesn't make them wrong.
If you want to fund bicycle lanes in foreign countries, go start a fund an fund them privately.
For the people that don't know the topic:
- yes, German taxpayers are indeed funding bicycle lanes in foreign countries
- it's not the only waste of money going to foreign countries
And additional questions:
- since when is it forbidden to complain against the waste of tax money?
- how does favouring tax cuts instead of tax money waste makes you a "right wing"?
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>> For the people that don't know the topic:
>> - yes, German taxpayers are indeed funding bicycle lanes in foreign countries
Just for people to know this, we are talking about 44Mn€ (20Mn€ + 24Mn€) of money in Peru as the commentator mentions below. It is wasteful but it has practically no effect on Germany. There are 1000x things that Germany does within Germany that moves the needle more than the talking about this rounding error. But that requires introspection and ownership of responsibility - both alien to the country’s normal compliance attitude of working.
Funding other member states to be able to grow may be labeled waste, or investment on creating new markets for Germany.
What people like you dont understand is what we get back from investing into foreign countries. We dont just build bicycle lanes there because we are such nice people.
I agree with your characterisation of what is going on, and at some point, the EU states will have to decide for full fiscal integration or for removing the common currency. You can't have a common currency without a common fiscal union. So we either have to integrate more or desintegrate more, this inbetween we have now is not working very well. Speaking as a European, not sure what is better.