Baden-Württemberg: Southwest FDP wants to reduce taxes and help municipalities

In the federal government, in the state in the opposition: the Southwest FDP must manage the balancing act.

Baden-Württemberg: Southwest FDP wants to reduce taxes and help municipalities

In the federal government, in the state in the opposition: the Southwest FDP must manage the balancing act. At the small party congress, the Liberals Green-Black want to ask for more help for the municipalities.

Bad Mergentheim (dpa/lsw) - Despite the looming economic crisis, the Southwest FDP believes it is possible to reduce taxes and invest even more in the expansion of infrastructure. Germany is now realizing what was left behind in the federal government during the years of the grand coalition, said FDP country chief Michael Theurer of the German Press Agency immediately before the small party conference on Saturday (11 a.m.) in Bad Mergentheim (Main-Tauber district). The parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport explained further: "However, we will not capitulate in the face of the challenges by simply telling people that they should just get along with less prosperity in the future."

Theurer said that in the traffic light government, the FDP would ensure that, despite inflation and the impending gas crisis due to the Ukraine war, significantly more investment would continue to be made in infrastructure, planning would be accelerated and there would be less bureaucracy. He also promised that people should be relieved of taxes even in times when their budgets are tight - "for example by increasing the tax allowance and tax cuts to compensate for the cold progression".

At their meeting in Bad Mergentheim, the FDP state leadership wants to consult with the approximately 100 delegates on applications that were left at the party conference on Epiphany. In an application, for example, the state executive calls for an emergency program for the cities and communities financially weakened by the corona pandemic. The state government should "permanently pay a billion more into the municipal financial equalization". This is to be counter-financed by "reducing bureaucratic support programs".