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SPD Minister Welcomes the End of the Fuel Discount While Hypocritically Complaining About High Consumption TaxesAs fuel prices rise again at the pump, Saxony-Anhalt's SPD Energy Minister Armin Willingmann praises the end of the fuel discount as a "reasonable decision." In the same breath, he laments high consumption taxes that disproportionately burden ordinary people. 
Oh, how touching! There stands Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann, SPD Minister for Science, Environment, Energy, and who knows what else in Saxony-Anhalt, in front of the camera, declaring it "reasonable" that the fuel discount expires at the end of June 2026. What a heroic act of Social Democratic statecraft: first let prices at the pump explode, then throw motorists a few cents of "relief" as a token gesture, and finally breathe a sigh of relief once the whole charade is over. Bravo, Comrade Minister! That's what you call being truly close to ordinary people. Commuters will surely be thrilled again, won't they? In his Facebook post and the accompanying clip from June 24, 2026, Willingmann finally lets the cat out of the bag: "We can now let the fuel discount expire. That's an appropriate response. Prices have more or less returned to normal." Returned to normal—for whom, exactly? For the welfare recipient or commuter counting every cent at the gas station, or for the red-green-black ideologues who apparently see a full tank as an affront to climate justice? The minister, who governs in Saxony-Anhalt as part of a CDU-SPD-FDP coalition, then grandly calls for further relief: lowering VAT on basic foodstuffs and easing the tax burden on low- and middle-income earners. "When it comes to consumption taxes, we simply have to acknowledge [...] that they disproportionately burden smaller household budgets." Profound, Mr. Willingmann. Truly groundbreaking. As if it weren't precisely the parties you've been part of for years that systematically built up and defended these very burdens. The Hypocrisy Factor: MaximumWillingmann's press release is a masterpiece of Social Democratic double standards. He praises the fuel discount as "important and noticeable relief" during the "peak of the Iran war," only to quietly let it expire without protest. At the same time, he rails against the "high cost of living" and insists that "broad shoulders should carry more than narrow ones." Coming from an SPD politician whose party has supported—or actively pushed through—tax and levy increases for decades in the Bundestag, the Bundesrat, and countless coalition governments, that is quite a statement.Who introduced the eco tax and kept expanding it? The Red-Green coalition. Who implemented the CO2 tax/CO2 pricing scheme starting in 2021, making gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and natural gas more expensive while disproportionately hurting lower-income households? Once again, red-green and black-red politics. The costs are simply passed on to consumers—adding extra cents per liter of fuel year after year, driving up production costs and VAT receipts as well. And who now sits in the federal government (the black-red coalition under Merz/Klingbeil) as well as in the Saxony-Anhalt state government? The very same political circles. Tax revenues are never enough for them. Ever more levies, ever more policy instruments, ever larger climate and transformation funds. The energy tax (formerly the mineral oil tax) has generated tens of billions of euros for the federal government for decades, making it one of the most lucrative consumption taxes of all. The SPD and the Greens have never seriously sought to reduce it—quite the opposite, they praised it as a steering instrument. And now Willingmann suddenly cries about "consumption taxes" that "disproportionately burden smaller budgets"? That's not just hypocrisy; it's an outright insult to his own voters. The Great Philosophical ThinkerThings become especially audacious when Willingmann suddenly turns philosophical: "We fundamentally need to reflect on the extent to which taxing basic foodstuffs in Germany is still appropriate. There is no doubt that such a discussion is necessary."Reflect. Fundamentally. Someday. The minister whose party has governed at both the federal and state levels for decades—and who helped enact, support, and defend these very taxes—now wants to start thinking about them. For exactly how long, Professor? Another quarter of a century? Until the next election? Until milk and bread have become unaffordable for the average wage earner? Instead of proposing an immediate and concrete reduction of VAT on basic foodstuffs—the very measure he hypocritically claims to support—all we get is this lukewarm promise to "think about it." Typical SPD: diagnose problems your own policies helped create, then propose years of "discussion processes" while citizens keep paying the bill. Thinking instead of acting—that's not leadership; it's the classic Social Democratic excuse. East Germany's Sense of Injustice"Especially here in Saxony-Anhalt—and indeed throughout East Germany—people have a keen sense of whether things are fair," he says softly in the video. Yes, East Germans do have a keen sense—particularly when Western political elites once again explain why they should simply drive less and pay more. The stronger should "carry a little more and the weaker a little less"? Mr. Willingmann, your party and its coalition partners have been piling ever more burdens onto ordinary people for decades: the EEG surcharge (formerly), CO2 pricing, high electricity and energy taxes, VAT on food. The result: a more expensive life for everyone who doesn't travel in a government limousine—or get driven around in one.High Praise for the Master of Double-SpeakIt's remarkable how Willingmann criticizes the oil companies and calls for windfall profit taxes, while completely ignoring his own responsibility for structurally high taxation. "It would have been right for those who profited from the crisis to contribute more toward the cost of relief." What would really have been right, Minister, would have been not tightening the tax screw for decades. But that doesn't fit the narrative.Particularly cynical is the fact that he welcomes the federal government's planned income tax reform and expects "a concrete reform proposal as quickly as possible." Of course, everything must be "fair"—"people, especially in East Germany, pay close attention to that!" What a Social Democrat! After his party helped create the current mess, he now poses as the savior of ordinary people. Willingmann's Performance Is Classic SPD TheaterFirst govern and approve the policies, then complain about the consequences and demand relief measures you never seriously intend to implement. The fuel discount is gone—but the taxes remain. The hypocrisy remains. And the citizens, especially those in eastern Germany, continue paying the price for green-red climate ideology and redistribution fantasies.Thank you for your clarity, Minister. The people activated their "keen sense" long ago.
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