A commentary by Frank Kamp shore
Dusseldorf (ots) - Since, Members of the North Rhine-Westphalia state
parliament in luck. They are not like millions of ordinary citizens on
insurance offerings, such as the Riester pension dependent. Because
then they would have to be 85 years old, to the contributions they
have paid for a good part of himself, at least enjoy an interest rate
of 2.5 percent. What then maybe an additional pension of just over €
300 a month means - after more than 30 years of premium payment. The
politicians have an easier time: you authorize it to yourself and
provide a rich supplement to a pension of 2,100 € per month for an
optimal equipment - funded 100 percent by the taxpayer. After only ten
years (reelection) they have such a pension of more than 1000 €
accumulated.
Another comparison: The average pension is a freelancer for nearly 50
percent lower, but the most extreme things that must pay for it
themselves. Also showing: The North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
are abandoned by their senses and have the measure of appropriate
action is lost.
This is all the more regrettable, because the control diet in NRW been
something of a model for a transparent system and was praised
nationwide. In contrast to the federal government was here many years
ago dispensed with tax-free allowances. Added to this was a separate
pension plan for pensions - even at that time a novelty, but it
created the first clear and transparent rules.
The rules are still clear, but the conditions have improved
dramatically - in favor of the deputies. The premiums for the pension
plan by more than 30 percent, thereby increasing the age claims is
inappropriate. That does not fit into a time traveling in other
countries, austerity programs and praised in the state government
finally come down from their high debt.
The citizen is faced with closed bathrooms and also hear from
Düsseldorf by the SPD-Green state government that it was necessary to
continue even still have financial freedom. Evil suspicions about for
lavish pensions?
