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Germany Looks to Stop the Far Right From Assuming Power (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Stopping the rise of the far right is trivially easy, and government holds the levers. Just do two things:

reduce immigration
tax the wealthy

Seems they would rather lose to nazis than do those two things.

Edit: seems more than a few of you are rushing to lose to Nazis too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The first one isn't necessary. Just need to tax the wealthy and ensure that companies cannot exploit immigrant labor to increase profits. Immigration isn't the problem, the companies are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Taxing the rich is what the current government wants. The right wing does not want that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The FDP very definitely does not want this, and one would be justified in doubting if the top brass of the SPD wants it. Personally, I am inclined to believe they only suggest plans like this knowing full well nothing will come of them in this government constellation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The FDP does not want this. But both the SPD and the Greens want to. Good luck getting any tax increases past the CDU, FDP and AfD.

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