baths. Business taxes - such as bathing "understand what all the Socialists of money, is the fact that they want from others." - Konrad Adenauer
Wolfgang Heuer When asked how he would fund his many new investments for you, he answers with a sentence like: "For us, education is always in the streets before Premium -state. " is with the first glance into the SPD election manifesto to recognize, however, that it not be done by cuts in the infrastructure budget is: The SPD will improve the business tax, it can be no doubt. Even after all Muenster is one of the few cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, which have not yet slipped into the dreaded financial assurance. Yet.
loses in the financial security of many areas of his Council of crocheted Altun travel to the district government, then, from above, can impose austerity measures to cut back the debt of the municipality. Previously, Münster, keep up with sorrow and distress over water: The economic crisis has, however, the breaks in the budget made deep canyons. The business tax revenues were 290 million with Euro in 2008 yet to secure support of the budget - expected for 2009 treasurer Helga Bickeböller (CDU), only 245 million €, 2010, there are another ten million will be less. At the same time revenues fall by the municipality's share of the income tax by six million euros. The bottom line tears the hole of 70 million euros, missing the city of Munster in 2009/2010. For 2010, means the financial assurance.
Münstersche Both the local politics and the citizens themselves have not understood, are in the precarious situation, the municipal Finance! If the CDU candidate for mayor Markus Lewe then somewhere wants to raise a single cent in funding for a new building of the Südbad, the result in the local government only to loud laughter. Without close contact with his group, much less to take with the CDU-based Lewe announced on 1 July, a separate plan for a Südbad - the old one was from the Town Hall Coalition has been closed because of the budgetary situation: Since the big bang, the CDU plastered with the picture of a smiling, floating child and the inscription: "More opportunities for children" . This makes the city especially for surprise among those who witnessed the bathrooms closures in the neighborhood have, even for anger.
course it is understandable that parents want to see saved for their children close to home as opportunities for learning to swim. But it is dishonest, then do not want to see that the chances for these children not just then increase as they learn while swimming next door, but they must be the ones to the huge debts must wear once. In a town where at about 17 districts of seven swimming pools and four outdoor swimming pools (three outdoor pools just been renovated!) Does not exist the problem of lack of residence constructed nearby. With an expected deficit of 70 million says the top candidate of the Greens in Münster, Gerd Joksch, however succinctly, one should not ask how expensive would be a pool, you should ask how much the city was worth.
Such statements can only shake his head. On the question of reciprocal financing refer red-green and blunt the business tax, one of the few direct sources of revenue that can transform the community in general. The CDU has proactively decided not to rule out a business tax increase in its program - Lewe also know that it will go without a drastic cutbacks policy without them. But neither is talking about it at SPD, Greens and CDU nor the citizens - almost shocking to the voters to swallow a tax increase just like that. Only the FDP is clearly in for a business tax increase.
The business tax is one of the strangest inventions of the German state apparatus: it was introduced in 1936 and is calculated on the trading profits of a company, will be subtracted from the allowance of 24,500 euros. Then multiply the resulting taxable trading profits of 3.5%, the nationwide uniform tax rate (since 2008 consistently!). For a company with 100,000 € trade income is the a base value of 2642.50 €. Only now comes the municipality into play that determines the local so-called "assessment rate" with which the base value is multiplied. This is an average of 400% in Munster, it is 440%. The employer would have to cede in addition to this complicated process in an income of 100,000 € to all other taxes and social charges, € 11 627 to the city of Muenster.
is in the town of betting rings in the neighboring district of Steinfurt only 365% assessment rate. There, the contractor should submit only € 9645, representing savings of almost 2,000 € a year. In rural Bavarian municipalities as the local business tax burden on businesses, however regularly by 300% in Rettenbach on Auerberg (Ostallgäu) at only 230% - this would mean for the entrepreneur savings of more than 5,000 € a year, at least 5% of its total profits, would leave him in Bavaria in the bag!
questions must be allowed the light of these facts: What justifies the city of Munster, the fact that on the backs of young people who find no place more training, day care centers en masse to be built? What good is a city a flagship water park when the companies on the site the young job seekers have no perspective anymore? As Munster can still be attractive to investors when the economic crisis is further increasing the already too excessive exposure to the business tax? Why is instead set this tightening of the handicaps cathedral on the political agenda, with a threatening financial security even thought about additional public spending? - A response Heuer and Lewe owe. The other bill pay.
On The Left Party in the election 27.9. can clearly rise. It is reinforced with 11.9 per cent of second votes and 76 deputies in the next legislative period. Special attention deserves the fact that THE LEFT 16 (!) Direct accounts, has won 12 of them outside of Berlin. Unfortunately, The Left, the huge losses of the SPD does not compensate, so black and yellow is possible. The Left will now form the driving force in opposition to the impending welfare cuts. 
