That used to be completely true, but seeing the US government consistently spending 150% of its revenue every year make me doubt that. Money printer and price go brr
At least Germans are getting train tickets and not shiny new drone missiles.
Germany increased their military spending by 100 billion this year which is tripling it compared to last year. Still a lot less than US but German economy is also a lot smaller.
Not a helpful comment. (And you should know.)
The state is funded by taxes and other income.
Germans elected representatives to decide/vote on issues like the 9euro ticket. You can try ad nauseam to redirect by adding complexity, but this was supposed to highlight that the difference is been paid for so that there is compensation the loss for regional public transport companies/structures.
At the end, we are all atoms miraculously clustred together, somehow self aware and writing comments to each other. (Now go ahead, add some complexity and redirection again /s)
And where does the taxpayer money come from? :) The state (or in this case the european central bank) owns and distribuites the money, then the tax payers give it back.
ECB does not issue funds to individual countries. It does so only to stabilise the economy which is moving funds from one place to another. Eventually, by creating debt.
But on point. ECB manufactures banknotes. As in, it prints them and hands over to individual countries. ECB is owned by central banks of all 27 countries.
Taxpayers money comes from the work they execute. For example, when I do a contract for someone, I get paid for the service I did. If I don’t do the work, I don’t get paid and “the state” doesn’t give me anything. Furthermore, if I do a lot of work in a year and the next year I have a misfortune of falling ill and can’t sustain working, I’m screwed because “the state” wants its share in case of future profits, and just takes it from my account leaving me with a hole. “The state” doesn’t care.
I remember such a conversation I had once with a representative of “the state”: “you don’t have our money?”, to which my immediate thought was “yeah, because we were sitting nights together trying delivering those projects”.
„The state“ doesn’t have its „own money“. It is subsided by the taxpayer.