“With the active pension, the federal government is making expensive tax gifts. This hardly brings any additional employment, but rather produces deadweight effects and will cause serious damage to tax fairness. If you want to see more older people working, you first have to create better working conditions.
The right thing to do is to take the first step to stabilize the pension level. A reliable and stable statutory pension will also help the younger generation in the future. However, we therefore need long-term commitments instead of downward protection with a short expiry date.
Politicians cannot avoid restructuring the pension system with fair financing if they want to avoid further disruption. A fair pension is only possible with employment insurance, into which politicians, civil servants and the self-employed also pay. In order to be fairly financed, the statutory pension needs sufficient tax resources for the non-insurance benefits that it has to cover.”