Germany does not spend 2 trillion dollars a year on failed military operations. Without that, every American would have health care, college, and this country would soar with creative solutions, a powerful economy and a bright, clean future.
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Agreed. Similarly, Norway has free education and free healthcare.
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Germany is a sensible well - run country. The US isn't.
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It's easy to run a surplus when you don't have to spend money on a military.
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Germany benefitted for years with low corp tax rate of 15% while US had 35%-45% tax rates. Similarly Germany had cannibalized on other EU businesses with their low tax rates. Germany is a fine example of how low tax rates grow its coffers!
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That's an absurdly specious misunderstanding of German taxes. That's their bottom line corp rate. Their combined rates are about 33%. The effective tax rate in the US was about 29%, and few corps paid that. Now it's even lower, and we're already seeing the effects of shortfalls
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Because Germany, unlike the US, is run by grownups.
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We seem to think that it's a bad thing to use our tax dollars in order to provide what is good for our country. Instead we divert our tax dollars to private sector profits. We don't get good accessible Healthcare, roadways, or education. But all sorts of companies get profits.
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It's going to catch up, eventually. You either have to fund the government properly or cut programs. Boomers were never willing to sacrifice losing their programs or paying taxes, so younger people are going to hurt for it eventually.
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Got to save in times of plenty for those times when things are tough.
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That's why they have trouble forming a government
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Bullshit.
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You mean they have to build impossible coalitions no one really voted for because they all have such flaming majorities of vote?And why is that so?Because instead of easing the tax burden for working families and middle class, they're destroying it.
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No. That's not what I mean. And thats bull because if they can form a majority, people obviously voted for it, didn't they? The votes aren't divided because of taxes, but because of fears the far right neo-nazi AFD spreads to further their agenda
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True all of that.But the coalition has become necessary (again)in the first place bc it has had "austerity"policy of "zero debt" which is completely bonkers, retained an impossible tax burden on families, SMEs and middle class in general. This has cost both of them voters.
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I'd consider myself middle class and I do not agree with your assessment. Taxes have been the same for years. Govmt. going for "no dept" isn't a bad idea per se & has been a goal for some time. I don't think that's the reason for the bad turnout and the rise for extreme parties.
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Instead, I'd see the problem with greed on one hand and envy on the others. Corporations (with few exceptions) serve their shareholders only. If they do well, they don't share with their workforce in a way that should follow. Wealth isn't distributed and that hits the poor 2/
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even harder than the middle class. With refugees arriving in great numbers, the far right saw the potential to orchestrate a fear campaign directed at those people's worries and exploit their fears for their gain. This has set up a climate of uncertainty that's not necessarily 3/
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