RENTENPAKET: So führt die Reform zu einer Spaltung der Gesellschaft! - Holznagel im WELT - Interview

Yes, I would like to discuss this with the president of the Taxpayers Association, R

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Holznage. Thank you very much for his time. When I go back to Mr. Duger, he says that pension package 2 would be the most expensive. social law of the century, hence his warning: he shares this criticism. Are you absolutely right? When it comes to pensions, we have to look to the future. That's what it's all about and pensions are becoming more and more expensive for those who have to finance them. That is the generation that works now, also the future generation. That is why the package that the federal government has launched now is incredibly expensive, has no

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s and has no future prospects.

A few weeks ago many questions were raised. The federal government has yet to respond. Has there been any improvement so far? Unfortunately, the government's reactions are not, the figures show that, on the one hand, of course, they want to create social capital. That's fine, but if you took out an overdraft now to fund your pension in the future, it wouldn't be. Therefore, in my opinion, this measure is not even a drop in the ocean in terms of financial policy. very questionable, the second thing is that the level of pensions must be adapted to working life but also to the demographic component.

What we have just heard is a retrospective look and the figures are correct. The current generation of pensioners depends on a higher pension. level, but the future generation is not and therefore must do so. We are introducing

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s that simply undermine the current generation. In the end, it is also part of the truth that the statutory pension is only one component of the old-age provision. And this building block needs to be strengthened and stabilized, but various building blocks need to be added, what they might look like, for example, through a company pension provision which a lot of people now have and we also know about private pension provision.

Some 12 million pensioners have to file a tax return and only 750,000 euros, or less than one million, receive income exclusively from statutory pension insurance. As a general rule, people already have between two and three pensions, so they have to leave the church. In the village, when talking about poverty in old age, legal pension insurance is important, it needs to be stabilized, but we also need to focus on private provision. But now we keep hearing that the whole problem can be solved on its own. want to somehow control the statutory pension insurance, they at least hope to believe that someone can promise everyone who currently works and therefore pays, that when they reach retirement age there will still be enough to live on Paradoxically, the situation is complete: young people, in particular, see that they have to give up almost 40% of their salary to contribute to social security, plus there are taxes and no one really believes that they can continue to benefit from them. this when they are older, that is, at 20 or 30 years old, so at this time we also have a certain division in society.

Many young people do not even understand why they should contribute to the pension insurance financed by this rate, because of course, they also lack contributions to private provision and the elderly have the impression that they are becoming increasingly poorer, which sometimes Sometimes it is not true at all, which is why politics is needed. Yes, also very clear and clear statements about how things will be. This cannot continue like this, not even with tax subsidies; We have to allocate more than 100 billion euros to pensions every year. In my opinion, this is not justified. We need reforms and several basic elements to solve this problem.

Holznage thank you very much thank you