Why are the parties that are traditionally classified as very right or very left so often amalgams of at least two parties? In Germany, the AfD surely is two parties, and die Linke might be even three (the Western communists, the Eastern realists, and Sarah Wagenknecht).
Just to separate this from the diatribe below: I think mr construction company cum party funder is looking to lucrative contracts in Ukraine, paid by the EU...
If I had a pfennig for everytime I have said that politics cannot be measured on a binary scale, I would have been rich enough to buy something very expensive.
There is in reality no such thing as a right or left party. Political ideas and opinions are not graded on a scale. Example:
Lower taxes are traditionally considered right/conservative/liberal. Higher taxes are considered left/socialist/liberal.
Say the average yearly income from wages per household is 45 000 Euro. Lots of people make far less but we also have tens of thousands of millionaires and hundreds of billionaires contributing, as well as lots of civil servants and equivalents making up the higher middle end.
The lower income households typically gets some kind of tax-funded support, from child pay to sick pay or subsidised rents and so on. Meaning taxes go in, circulate through the state's coffers creating interest but also transaction-related costs, and are paid out as tax breaks, subsidies, welfare et c.
Now, let's say our party - the United Solipsist Anarchists - decides to campaign on this:
A household may earn per year, no matter the source as long as it is legal, up to 25 000 Euro before paying any taxes. To pay for this, all subsidies et al are removed and all VAT on basic goods are alos removed, but so is welfare apart from the totally destitute and related outlays such as UN fees, and similar. (In reality, such a reform project need a lot more detail.)
Why are the parties that are traditionally classified as very right or very left so often amalgams of at least two parties? In Germany, the AfD surely is two parties, and die Linke might be even three (the Western communists, the Eastern realists, and Sarah Wagenknecht).
Just to separate this from the diatribe below: I think mr construction company cum party funder is looking to lucrative contracts in Ukraine, paid by the EU...
If I had a pfennig for everytime I have said that politics cannot be measured on a binary scale, I would have been rich enough to buy something very expensive.
There is in reality no such thing as a right or left party. Political ideas and opinions are not graded on a scale. Example:
Lower taxes are traditionally considered right/conservative/liberal. Higher taxes are considered left/socialist/liberal.
Say the average yearly income from wages per household is 45 000 Euro. Lots of people make far less but we also have tens of thousands of millionaires and hundreds of billionaires contributing, as well as lots of civil servants and equivalents making up the higher middle end.
The lower income households typically gets some kind of tax-funded support, from child pay to sick pay or subsidised rents and so on. Meaning taxes go in, circulate through the state's coffers creating interest but also transaction-related costs, and are paid out as tax breaks, subsidies, welfare et c.
Now, let's say our party - the United Solipsist Anarchists - decides to campaign on this:
A household may earn per year, no matter the source as long as it is legal, up to 25 000 Euro before paying any taxes. To pay for this, all subsidies et al are removed and all VAT on basic goods are alos removed, but so is welfare apart from the totally destitute and related outlays such as UN fees, and similar. (In reality, such a reform project need a lot more detail.)
Now: is this a left, centrist or right proposal?