I did understand your points. There is an old moral tale told to children about a grasshopper that gamboled about all summer, while ants diligently toil and save up food in their pantry for the coming winter. In the winter the ants make do on their savings accumulated through hard work and discipline, but the grasshopper, starving, begs the ants for their savings.

It was this story of the grasshopper and the ant I referred to in my too terse reply (I am excessively verbose, and strive to be less so). Perhaps my agreement with your point wasn't able to be conveyed so briefly, given our differing cultures and stories we're told in our childhood.

The woe that Germany suffers due to policies of the Greens are not unknown to me, and that suffering has been terribly exacerbated by pressure from NATO, and from the USA directly, worst in the sabotage of the Nordstream II pipeline. I am apprised that German industry is fleeing for China and the US, where less expensive energy requisite to industrial production is available, and the influx of migrants I have heard referred to as 'Merkelmen' is also well understood, and today Americans deeply empathize because of our own influx of immigrants, seemingly a flow without end, nor any good end in mind of those that encourage and enable it.

The OP is very well written, and while I didn't address the obvious tongue in cheek and humor, an undercurrent of rancor remained palpable and obviously justly so, as Germany is already one of the most heavily taxed polities in the world. For some politician to seriously propose outright theft of ~10% of the funds of the most industrious and disciplined savers in such economic plight is absolutely intolerable, and the grasshopper in the children's tale well relates the value of such character.

I appreciated your post far more than I initially noted in my initial reply, because I have so taxed you with interminable rants so often in the past, to be still rewarded with your diligent reply after suffering through such walls of text to attain to understanding of my comments, I hoped to spare you such suffering and yet convey my appreciation in brief. It seems I am prone to either too little text, or too much, in my replies.

Like this one =p