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Germany: Voters are skeptical of sweeping reform proposals (www.dw.com)

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[–] UnexpectedBehavior@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

Skeptical? This entire thing is neo liberal bullshit mixed with reducing employee rights

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

Also, all of it is populist or activist bullshit that will do absolutely nothing to improve the economic outlook or peoples lives.

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[–] Pip@feddit.org [S] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

What would improve the economic outlook?

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

A wealth tax or forcing companies to adjust the salary of their employees to the inflation

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[–] Pip@feddit.org [S] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

A tax on any income from capital and automatic wage indexation are effective policies.

They don't deliver paradise (US has wealth tax, Belgium has indexation), but neither will these reforms.

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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

US does not have a real wealth tax and you can see this by how every study shows the wealthy avoiding taxation in the US and how wealth inequality is the highest in the world in the US.

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