Never really good, but always the devil on the wall! 
the economy is doing well in Germany. The economy in Germany is not good enough. The policy must ensure that the economy better. The policy must remain apart from the economy. I do not know how you feel when you read these sentences. Wisdom of the Catechism radical market opinion leaders - standard rates, which has internalized the German politics for years. And they sound the same: the drama of loss as a message in these core principles. Thumann and Rogowski, Hans-Werner Sinn , Meinhard Miegel, Merkel and Pofalla , Steinbrück, Hubertus Heil, and the stuttering Bavarian Prime Minister and his Secretary General, the whole FDP-clique but also parts of the Greens, not to mention the economy minister Michael Glos - they all belong to the crew of the Muliplikator redistribution from bottom to top.
Now it's here - the corporate tax reform of 2008, approved in the Bundesrat is she now claims the Maschinerie.Diese! Never really good, as the devil on the wall, crappy Future ... "if she is not so spurt, as we do that!" Dictatorship of the "business elites " pure "social" market economy of the other Art!
"I am convinced, without the economy is nothing," BDI President Thumann some Ziet said in a radio broadcast of SWR.Und Next: "The value is too expensive in Germany, the companies are leaving with their value and we must ask ourselves what is the company . All buttoned off by that State "
The name of the business elite is standing next to many of the key request:
state, you get out, keep the best of everything, and leave the citizens of their responsibility. If it's what is distributed, then kindly called us and not the general public. Nick kindly on what we propose to you, we have our rules of self-government and I believe that we also largely practiced everything very well. And then we shall act in which we will hopefully granted freedom responsibly for the good of society as a whole.
The market as a self-regulating nature of the that produces like a deus ex machina in themselves progress and prosperity for all. Driven only by energetic entrepreneurs from the state and politics is not to be disturbed.
The large trade associations, employers' association, the BDI put pressure on policy. So they always try the site and the site conditions in Germany are especially bad, as it then plays no role when huge profits at the same time makes, you can still always sing the song that Germany has drawn up very badly, even if we export world champion are simultaneous. And they manage to clear their media presence in the public talk shows exactly how to produce as in the newspapers, at certain points a climate where what the enforce lobbying do holds, then also for the economic truth.
command economy in terms of "we give the command" remains, as in all previous tax gifts to their corporations, as always in vagueness:
Lowering the corporate tax is a clear Incentive for companies to invest in Germany reinforced here.
"incentive. - "Is part of neoliberal rhetoric and is like no other time and again issued a dishonored check for the future. Past experiences have shown, however, this incentive has somehow always been found to be too low. Including in the last massive corporate tax cut the Red-Green government in 2001. In vain, the then Finance Minister Hans Eichel bet that made his much-quoted "largest tax reduction program, the post-war history a strong "incentive" created jobs for more would ... ... ... ... & # 8230; ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. Nix's it!
But the policy continues to hold true to the stupid price.
of economics not in the sense that science Speech! At best, dominated by economics. The Düsseldorf macro economist Gustav Horn , the Wiesbaden-based tax expert Lorenz Jarass and the Berlin financial and economists Giacomo Corneo have an SWR radio program to own scientific studies compare & # 246; published. You see politicians when it comes to business taxes in the retracted arrested thought patterns - and affects one side.
This has been, of course they often persuaded by the stakeholders. It is clear that business organizations are calling for this constantly , Say there's more for jobs, as more money comes to Germany to have more employment . This is unfortunately not so easy:
Most of the money that comes in is financial investment, and not in the real economy, ie employment.
As a rule, tax cuts have no significant effect on the behavior of economic agents. And so we find in the textbooks used in the master classes at the Anglo-Saxon world, the very clear statement that growth is not through tax policy measures to be operated, because the effect of these measures very little. The priorities lie elsewhere:
If a company is considering in new equipment or new factories to invest, he compares the expected return with the profit he by an attachment to the Weltfinanzm & # 228; markets achieved. Capital investment makes it only if the return is comparatively higher.
Lowered corporate taxes have on this comparison yield any significant effect. There are no dezeit empirical findings to justify the view that the corporate tax reform of 2008 important growth effects generated.
Or the other way around:
There is no statistical correlation between tax rates and economic growth, either over time seen in the United States, or when comparing different countries worldwide.
In Germany, the Song of Songs lower corporate taxes for the benefit of higher general welfare still sung on. It is a tradition. Even the self-proclaimed world economist Helmut Schmidt has rejected decades long objections to the promise of more work from rising business profits with an unchanging standard apodictic sentence
Profits Today are the investments of tomorrow and the Ar-jobs of the future.
Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder argued as well. And today, saying the tips of the grand coalition of CDU and SPD, the same thing. As 25 years ago, the formula also currently active politicians and business leaders used as an argumentative purpose weapon to undermine the possibility of more work and thus prosperity for all has to begründen.Immer this formula proved effective for the benefit of entrepreneurs. Rarely favor salaried people. Even rarer is the fact that unemployment zurückgegangen.Der Reverse conclusion seems to be the case:
The profits of today are a good part of the unemployed of tomorrow.
act anywhere, anytime business leaders to return this weird formula. The head of Deutsche Bank , Josef Ackermann, has demonstrated its pattern of action as an example. For his spectacular performance at the press conference of his house, he said it with a simple rule of three.
We in the past year a great record profit of 3.6 billion € have made. We have 6000 jobs-ze . Reduce The return on investment of less than 20 percent must increase rapidly to 25 percent.
Many economic studies find the matching result, corporate tax cuts are not a panacea for investment and thus more jobs. mention that leading politicians of the grand coalition, these findings hardly is the result of a well-functioning public relations and lobbying the corporations. The influence, especially in projects such as the corporate tax reform, is at two levels, of course, once the public propaganda and to the other specifically by the central player in government and Parliament is trying to address and win for their own positions.
German politicians justify their law of falling corporate tax with two main arguments: the international competition between companies and tax competition, the Nationen.Beide phenomena requires that objective constraints facing you can not close themselves. To meet those, there must for entrepreneurs in Germany his back pay, tax on their profits here, here, too. Moreover, should they are deterred from their production facilities more often than move so far to cheap foreign tax.
competition, competition, nothing but competition. One can not hear anymore. As has often ground as that term escape from the substantive discussion on!
is basically only there to enforce a radical free-market economic policies favor of corporations, strict supply-driven, with the aim of the policy in the incapacity to drücken.Immer new records in the trade balance of the world export champion Germany and exploding corporate profits are likely indicators of a highly competitive Economy. Not
reason why the popular argument of the German economy is not competitive encounters massive scientific reservations. In particular, a corporation must constantly run into the field nominal tax rate figure is speaking not for himself. Which is in Germany at 29.83 percent. Serious inquiries to come to the conclusion that 29.83 percent are only on paper. In fact, companies pay less taxes. Simply because they can expect out due to numerous exemptions large portions of their profits. For Professor Lorenz Jarass the political life argument with nominal company tax rates, therefore a sham.
In an SWR radio program asserts the internationally recognized tax expert Prof.Lorenz Jarass:
In Germany we have the situation that actually paid the tax burden on income from entrepreneurial activity and Verm & # 246; gene has been drastically reduced since 1995. Not so in other countries. The other countries have reduced the nominal tax rates, but at the same time taken a variety of measures to effectively paid tax to maintain approximately constant. Switzerland, for example, has nominal tax rates of just under 30% and the actually paid tax burden is about just under 30%. (Lorenz Jarass)
What is now being decided is exactly the same. Nonsensical tax proposals that have been decided in 2001, namely reducing the nominal tax rates with huge tax losses, no feasible measures for increasing taxes, and the only measure ; exception, which was actually decided then and is now being adopted again, is a drastic deterioration the depreciation rules.
The Wiesbaden tax professor is one of the few experts in Germany, presented in model calculations reliable figures. Just before the corporate tax reform was passed in the Bundestag, he has estimated at an expert consultation, the loss of government revenue a year at least 10 billion euros. Now it will be interesting, as will fill the policy of this huge hole in the Treasury because the underfunding of the state budget must be financed somehow against! For Lorenz Jarrass is the whole project financing due to many complicated exceptions against a very vague undertaking. Even more serious for him are contained in the strategic mistakes and wrong incentives.
fact is: build Those who invest in real Germany, halls, set up machines to create real jobs, just those companies that are worsened by massive depreciation conditions belastet.Und all others speculate that, in essence, the buying, the company as it were bruised and cut up and filleted and export the remaining jobs to foreign countries that are also subsidized by tax yet.
Additional jobs created usually not in the corporations, but in the middle class. But: The medium-sized entrepreneurs who are forced to behave just like the international financial speculators, that is possible to pack very little equity in the company, as a lot of debt to pack into it and then when the company is relatively easy to sell the company with high profit. This is as it were, the incentive role of this new business tax reform.
"If we lower the taxes for domestic companies, then they increase their investments in the German domestic, then this increases the economy, and consequently would reduce the unemployment figures. means!
Economics findings point in another direction: the bosses of the global economy have saved billions of taxpayers as a investment is flowing to where little growth regulated markets, low wages and low expected social standards, the relatively high yield can. Therefore, national government lowered corporate tax rates generally cause little.
Will they be granted in strong economies such as Germany, They also send out dangerous signals for weaker economies. Ruinous competition begins at progressively lower Steuersätze.International national operating companies, states can now, with the lever up or the job losses more blackmail or less to offer them economically "cheap" control conditions. More and more nation states get caught driving in races such tax. Some states even actively drive so that policy.
I think competition should be a competition for products to innovations be the new creates also creates the wealth. Tax competition creates no wealth, except for individuals who exploit him, but not for the national economy. In this respect, we must fight this tax competition. You can do this, eg the fact that one establishes minimum control requirements within the EU . All this of course is politically difficult because each country thinks only of himself, but not to the EU as a whole, which is, become a single market. But there also needs to first awareness of such an aggregate, in the European sense of overall economic way of thinking should be created, Unfortunately, we are still far away.
property owners or businesses have moved away from the principle of balancing, competent tax state wide. With its individualistic insurance and pension plan they contradict our own welfare state bid. Which the state can meet only when he accrue sufficient resources. His core responsibilities under the agreement: one-sided balance of income and wealth patterns in the economy and society low-income participation in society make appropriate . This is the appropriate tax contributions to tax state high-income people actually need. Where what is necessary for awareness of social commitment is difficult to discern.
Social Darwinism leads combined with features of hedonistic behavior trend exactly in the opposite direction. Not the social commitment is at the forefront, but one-sided pursuit of their own interests. Economically empires are harden especially as Einflussreiche.Wenn such things, then get the one that always stand in the sun, certainly more and more power.
That is, they have the means to secure that power. In politics, for example, by lobby groups have, over extension institutions to know to make their views known to the policy very clearly. And that leads to the end that a tax law is made, which goes in a certain direction, the more relieved rich, while people who live on the edge of existence, none of this have. ( see manipulation in Germany )
Germany, rich country. The third-largest economy is among the wealthiest in the world. After the U.S. and Japan in this country live the most millionaires and billionaires.
The entrepreneurial income from assets and capital ownership and income of many self-employed have been stagnating for years steadily gestiegen.Die income salaried employees, however, not a few have even declined. only 15 percent of Germans have shares. Only 1.7 percent of all households have 74 percent of the total German production assets. Taken together, these data document a measurable dynamic redistribution from bottom to top.
The consequence is that it to a distributive injustice is, while the state is increasingly less able to exercise his actual duties. Everyone talks about education, education , education, and make the people in the most solemn speeches, and during the next budget decision also even the education budget cut. It always refers to the constraint, but the constraint is a self-inflicted and often an act of cowardice against plans to confront vested interests, which in some way is the timid deer of the capital "as the saying goes, that are irritated in any case, otherwise it runs very quickly away . Justice will not meet its definition, how to recognize the example of the corporate tax reform.
Each increased the tax burden for employees: No matter what the Federal government is in office.
Today, those who earn more pay, very quickly more than half their income to the state. For entrepreneurs, self-employed and wealthy, the tax situation, however, have reversed. They always pay less. of tax equity can now speak no politician seriously. Actually there is a tax injustice of biblical proportions. True to the motto: Who is , the given.
Steuerungerchtigkeit is not an inevitable natural phenomenon, against which the national policy can do little. There is a lack of political will and the interests of the politicians themselves, who are tied in closely with industry. Independent Decisions can not be taken continuously risk to pollute the politics of corruption. Cayman Islands not synonymous with powerlessness and apology politicians serve. There are ways to control, if such it will only!
I think it is simply a negligence that islands such as the Cayman Islands , and the fiscal policy allowed access to them technically, always open.
Why can not decide sanctions against such countries? If we are at the level of goods and commodities have dumping prices, will decide at the WTO, the World Trade Organization to impose sanctions against the country. At the level of finance such we have not. Why do not we do the same thing there? Why do not we turn first European also put our own Door? We have countries within the EU , Luxembourg, Ireland, which offer very targeted tax benefits that can not be.
That goes against the European Union and their solidarity. So it's not, and that needs to start political.
citizens with average incomes to ask why they pay so many taxes and yet the State has so much effort to fulfill its core functions properly. Politicians have no answers as to why much-needed funds for research and education for families and day care centers or lack of public infrastructure. They point to superficial symptoms: low growth, poor economic or social transfers high . But the real causes lie deeper. The state is weak, because too many have denounced the company's strong agreement on one important point: the of fair taxation.
you the scale of whether our state and our market economy is the attribute "social" with good reason.
It is a fundamental Debate necessary. We have a change in our economic system in our market economy to a market-radical capitalism.
What is now social market economy?
And what about social justice in the market economy?
She suffers from high-income beneficiaries of a "free" international financial transactions to optimize their tax contributions and tax selfish fugitives, their tax liability v & # 246; llig ignore. Both make the welfare state poor. Both belong a world economic regime that can dictate the political representatives of their dependents by their economic power rules and behavioral's standards, which they themselves need more and more a entziehen.Wir global governance, because we have had the experience that the market economy can only be social, only justice in the perspective view is if it is part of a strong regulatory framework, and that has today have either global or European level happened.
The congealed in social institutions idea of social justice prevents our community in the overflowing Assets of one, the liabilities of others are starving. That of capital flight and tax avoidance of the one, the fear of social decline and poverty the other is. The fair give and take in the state is the moral foundation of all tax discussion. Will it have a lot of them deceived, society loses its internal cohesion. In the end, face only individuals who are functionally connected with each other very unhappy.
empires that are getting richer and the poor to get poorer.
for the repentance of a worm I miss the text ... ... ... ... ... .... The fate of our culture is that it has developed much stronger materially than mentally.
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