It came up today via N-TV news....that the Linke Party (really the far left political party of Germany) is advocating that members of the Bundestag, with Chancellor Merkel and her cabinet....should all take a pay-cut because of the Covid-19 crisis.
If regular people are suffering....so should the political folks....if you follow the discussion.
The current pay scale for the Chancellor job? Well....20,165 Euro per month (yeah, a fair chunk of money).
The minister crowd? It's in the 16,000 Euro a month range.
Odds of this happening? Hard to say.
Finding statistical data to say half of Germany has suffered greatly in 2020, and achieved only 70-percent of their normal pay-scale? No, you can't really find reliable data to say.
Various barbers and hair-dresser folks will say....they lost in the range of 50-percent of their 2020 pay, but at the same time....they are kinda avoiding the subject that maybe a third to half of that loss is 'tip-money'.....which they don't really report for tax purposes.
As for the question that the Chancellor is losing half of that 240-odd thousand Euro a year to taxes? If you review the taxation rules....it wouldn't shock me if she only takes home 50-percent of that income....as it stands right now.
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