Growth king, or work-war idiot?

Smart

Grows the pie, or stops a real bleed

1. Cheap industrial electricityThe actual Standort lever+7
2. Pension package by end of 2026Unpopular, and the grown-up move+6
3. A state that works on a phoneThe highest-ROI boring thing+6
4. Massive transport investmentThe one they actually like+5
5. No German gold-plating of the EU supply-chain lawStop punching your own exporters+5
6. €10bn income-tax reliefGrowth-king move — late+4
7. More flexible fixed-term contractsLets firms say yes+4
8. Replace the heating lawKilled a culture war, kept a path+3
9. Cheap public transportSimple, popular, slightly underpriced+3
10. Keep the Zeitenwende goingInsurance, not a growth model+2
11. €100bn special fund for the BundeswehrThe one Ampel promise history will keep+2

Half-smart

Clever politics, muddy economics

1. Bürgergeld becomes ‘Neue Grundsicherung’Renames the trap, maybe tightens it+2
2. End phone-in sick notesReal problem, blunt instrument+2
3. A harder asylum lineRight diagnosis, half a tool+1
4. €15 minimum wageTrophy for the base, shrug for growth+1
5. Crack down on benefit fraudCampaign math, small cash+1
6. Legalise cannabisHalf a market, all of the argument+1
7. The July 2026 reform nightA night of horse-trades, not a strategy+1
8. Statutory health-insurance reformStops a spiral, ducks the structure0
9. No coalition with the AfDA firewall with a Länder leak0
10. Bürgergeld instead of Hartz IVDignity first, incentives later — then a flip-3

Dumb

Picks a fight with work, or misses the actual constraint

1. The heating lawWork-war idiot, with a halo-8
2. Build, don’t just talk, housingThe work-war they wage by doing nothing-7
3. Cut corporate tax toward 25%The one they skipped-6
4. Keep the debt brake and still investA coalition that lied to itself-5
5. Higher top income-tax rateHorse-trade tax, not a growth tax-3
6. A motorway speed limitDied on the wrong hill0