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>This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR/liter

If 2 EUR/liter is too much for Germany, than it's enormous for my Eastern European country.

I know we should support the war and sanctions and all those nice things, but some poor people depend on transportation for their living. If it costs too much, they might not be able to work. Already surges in food prices and utilities prices made life very hard for the most unfortunate of my countrymen.

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Germany is a rich country with poor people.

I'd argue that poor people in poor countries are even poorer, although being poor is not a nice contest to have.

Easy fix, just don't count the poor people [0]

[0] https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/der-geschoente-armutsbe...

Article is about the government, consisting of CDU and SPD at the time (2017), removing important parts of their report on poverty. Affected were passages about the growing low-wage sector, wage inequality and inequality of wealth overall, as well as reports on how poverty affects political influence and the growth of the economy. It appears as if the government had a disregard about the social and democratic implecations of poverty. The previous government of CDU and FDP did something similar in 2012 and was criticized for it by the SPD

Just look at the median wealth of the population. Many people don't own a home, and that kills the wealth statistics. A few BMW heirs, Aldi brothers and Lidl owner push up the average vastly.

>>This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR/liter

> If 2 EUR/liter is too much for Germany, than it's enormous for my Eastern European country.

Germans are always complaining although they are amongst the richest in Europe. In Finland it's 2,50 EUR/liter (somewhat less in the very south) and at least IT salaries are mostly lower.

What I did not see mentioned here that gas(US)/petrol(UK) will also be temporarily subsidized (by tax reduction) by the same law package as this 9 EUR ticket.

(German living in Finland.)

Car is probably not the right solution for all those people then. Even I wish I could reduce my dependency on cars.

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