Berlin --
The toll for cars on motorways seemed shelved after Chancellor Angela Merkel before the election, had promised full-bodied You see the theme for the next parliament "definitely not".
But now the compulsory fee is again taken out of the drawer. Both Union and FDP plan, according to "Focus", ask the driver to check out.
However, the coalition partners want to avoid the emotive term car toll in the coalition agreement, it says, referring to the compromise paper yellow and black traffic politicians.
Officials in the best German is to be read there: A commission should be worrying about "new financial instruments for the investment needs of the future" or the "reduction of dependence on financial need-investment in transport."
It clarified FDP transport expert Patrick Doering in the "Tagesspiegel on Sunday." When asked if it could make the toll for cars is meant, he said: "If this Commission demonstrates relevant concepts, we need to be discussed in the coalition. He was opposed to prohibition on thinking: "The toll is an option."
But it does not go about the people suck, but the long-term preservation of the City's facilities, "he asserts. The burden on motorists should not increase overall. The revenues would fully invested in maintaining and building roads. One must find an instrument, "in which money does not run through the sticky hands of the Finance Minister.
Even before the election had CSU-Chef Seehofer tries to push the car toll by Vignette in the Union - in the amount of 100 euros per year. In return, he wanted to lower taxes on gasoline. At that time he had failed even in the protest of the CDU.
The ADAC announced fierce opposition to toll for cars. Already, motorists would pay different taxes on 53 billion euros per year.
