The Green Party, via their candidate for Chancellor (Baerbock)....said this morning that there is a unique problem in Germany, and they want to re-write the Constitution to correct this (once they win the election in September).
The situation? Well...uneven living conditions.
N-TV told the basic story and it's kinda interesting.
If you got in a car and spent a month driving all of Germany....what you'd say at the end...is that things just just aren't even. Some areas have limited bus service, marginal train schedules, limited hospital service, etc. In Bavaria, you can cross over into some valleys to find no cellphone connection. In some cities (like Berlin or Frankfurt), you don't find reasonably priced apartments in abundance.
Writing this change to the Constitution? Pretty easy...probably no more than ten lines.
Cost to the government? Into the hundreds of billions....just for the first stage.
So even if you directed that some three-car train would travel through this valley every 30 minutes....only to transport thirty people....are you really achieving anything related to 'bang-for-the buck' (as we'd say in the US)?
You'd basically be ordering cities like Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart......to lessen their improvements for a decade or two....while small towns (some in the 1,000 to 20,000 range)....got massive improvements. Lawsuit potential? Yeah, people would say it's unfair.
Getting this passed? I could see some rural communities really jumping onto this idea, then waking up five years later to realize the massive tax base required....to get things to some even basis.
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