Dusseldorf A project by the traffic light coalition is making waves at the moment: Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus (Greens) wants to cancel parental allowance for higher earners in order to be able to meet the savings targets from the Ministry of Finance. Couples with a taxable annual income of more than 150,000 euros would be affected.
On the other hand, there is strong resistance on the career network LinkedIn. Entrepreneur and investor Verena Pausder positions herself particularly loudly in the parental allowance debate, which she does not want to be understood as a debate about the elite. At the beginning of the week she started a petition against the project and has so far collected almost 400,000 signatures.
“It’s not about the rich and the heirs, but about those who work hard for this money every day,” says Pausder in the podcast. The traffic light plans are “a signal against having children, against the compatibility of work and family and against equal rights for men and women”.
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