Economists are counting on the traffic lights - and the FDP has to tremble

Mercury Economists are counting on the traffic lights - and the FDP has to tremble Article by Georg Anastasiadis • 1 H. Industrial electricity prices, heating laws, nuclear power off: in a survey, professors hardly give a damn about the traffic light policy. This is particularly hurting the FDP, comments Georg Anastasiadis. This is not an interim report that you should use to apply for an increase in pocket money at home: Germany's top economists gave it a straight 4 at the halfway point of the traffic light government. The shutdown of the last nuclear reactors – a weakening of the German economy at an inopportune time, say 58% of the 205 economists surveyed. 55% believe that the expansion of citizens' money is an incentive to let others work for them. The heating law - small-scale and planned economy, according to the criticism of 60% of the professors. Habeck's industrial electricity price is not a mistake: the traffic lights are causing damage to the country And as if that wasn't enough, the experts attest that the Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck is also on the wrong track with his subsidized industrial electricity prices for large corporations. 83% reject the plan because it distorts competition, is harmful to the climate and ultimately unaffordable. Christian Lindner's FDP doesn't just have to tremble in the state elections, comments Georg Anastasiadis. The findings of the economists are clear: the traffic light has lost its way on its ideology-driven march into the ecologically planned economy and has also caused damage to the country and its citizens by reducing performance incentives. Traffic lights on the way to the eco-planned economy: The anger hits the FDP - it's about survival But it is not the green drivers who are primarily held accountable by their mostly well-heeled voters. The anger hits the Little People's Party SPD harder, but especially the business-oriented FDP, which in the eyes of their voters should have known better. But the sad liberals defend themselves by preventing (even) worse things from happening, such as the massive tax increases demanded by the red-green coalition. That's true, but you won't get elected for preventing it - and just as you won't get elected for joining a coalition that you never really wanted in your heart out of a sense of responsibility (and because of the failure of the CDU and CSU). That's why it's about survival for the FDP from now on, and not just this Sunday in the elections in Bavaria and Hesse.