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For my entire life, German governments have lit money on fire with great abandon. The pandemic was a particularly insane period of spending. Among the final acts in this spree was a supplementary budget pushed through by Merkel’s government in April 2021, allocating an additional 60 billion Euros for pandemic extravagances. The money was to come from debt, and it ought to have violated our constitutional debt ceiling rules. Because Covid qualified as a scary emergency, however, these rules did not apply.

Somehow – and this is quite an incredible thing to type – the CDU/CSU and SPD managed not to spend this money, leaving the 60 billion Euro credit authorisation floating about as a tantalising possibility when the clown car known as the Scholz coalition came to power five months later. In 2022, they decided to use this 60 billion Euros to top off their Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF). This money would help us “transition towards a climate-friendly economy,” “expand electromobility and heating networks,” “promote the replacement of climate-damaging heating systems,” “modernise Deutsche Bahn” and also subsidise various industries. While the KTF is supposed to be funded by CO2 tariffs, the enormous revenues these generate aren’t enough to pay for all the crazy stuff our climate protectors want to do, so they poured the 60 billion into the pot, enlarging it by almost 40%.

Well, today Habeck’s worst fears were realised. The Federal Constitutional Court have declared the supplementary budget from 2021 null and void, plunging Scholz and his fellow idiots into serious political crisis.

From t-online:

There is now a gap in the federal budget so large that extra savings measures cannot close it.

The exact consequences are hard to estimate. Most likely, however, Germany is facing a government crisis the likes of which the coalition has never seen before.