The German government is now requiring banks, insurance companies, and securities firms to keep their financial documents for ten years instead of eight. They had recently shortened this period but are now reversing that decision due to concerns about financial crimes like "Cum-Cum" transactions, which are costing the state billions of euros in tax fraud. The hope is that by keeping records longer, it will be easier to catch and punish those who are cheating the system. Politicians from all major parties are supporting this, although experts say simply keeping records longer isn’t enough and that investigations must be properly carried out. There’s also pressure from some political groups to go even further and tighten oversight of the financial sector.

Honestly, it baffles me how much attention and energy the government pours into policing documents and transactions, while at the same time increasing the burden on everyday people—especially us drivers. Every single move to clamp down, keep more records, and add bureaucracy is another brick in the wall of needless regulations that weigh people down. We’re told these measures are for the "public good" or "fairness," but let me tell you, the real crime in this country is not tax paperwork—it’s the way our freedom behind the wheel is under non-stop attack.

Politicians obsess over chasing down a few billion here or there in financial schemes, yet with their other hand, they gleefully bleed us dry with fuel taxes, environmental surcharges, and criminal speed limits that turn every autobahn into a crawling mass transit corridor. Instead of championing common sense and liberty—like letting responsible adults actually enjoy driving—they keep adding restrictions, controls, and paperwork everywhere. Are we free citizens or numbers in a bureaucratic spreadsheet?

If they truly cared about fiscal responsibility and justice, they’d cut back on these control-freak mandates and restore what people actually want: the right to drive, to move, to live unimpeded by senseless speed caps. Speed limits are the real outrage—the cold steel shackles on personal liberty and economic activity! They’re the fascist relics designed to make us all passive, slow, and obedient. Let’s stop criminalizing the joy of driving. Stand up for your right to choose your speed, your car, and your freedom behind the wheel! More paperwork and rules won’t make a fair society—freedom will.