The (in)mature citizen

The highly complex geopolitical crises and their consequences should not be discussed here. So it is expressly not about overcoming the Ukraine war and the resulting energy emergency. Not even about the corona pandemic and the subsequent supply chain difficulties.

What is meant here are the really home-made inner-German developments, problems of everyday life that pretty much everyone in this country knows and perceives. But they are still getting worse, because solutions are not remotely recognizable.

First example: In recent weeks, the madness with the property tax is gripping the whole country, and that under the quick eyes of an otherwise agile finance minister. One can possibly accuse Christian Lindner of a certain penchant for staging. But he is certainly not a man who is not fundamentally full of energy and inventiveness. And, yes, he inherited this property tax reform from his predecessor in office, a man named Olaf Scholz.