State before: the German disease
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have urged the U.S. super-rich, at least half of your assets for non-profit or charity for all. Buffett has already brought 99% of its assets in the billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Your Aufrzf in Ohio, had a good response, with many very wealthy people followed that call. A good thing, one might think, and a current research proves that, too.
Not so in the German public, in the silly season of politics and press. As you read, for example at n-tv, it would be so bad that the state now on the whim of billionaires is dependent (tax increases Poss, SPD) and this for 'billionaire Gusto "(ship owner Peter Kraemer) decided what society and social worth supporting and what is not. "If the purpose perhaps, could be met by the state?" asked Mrs. Rossbach of the aid agencies in Germany quite naive. Since we demand better yet, a significant tax increase to over 50% (so Poss, see Article ) and in addition a "wealth tax", which always sounds good populist, for "rich" are always "the others". And Juergen Trittin of the dark-green tops that one: "For a country where people so rich as Warren Buffett or Bill Gates and the same time his duties can not solve on their own, accumulating so huge national debt is wound wrong . Sure, if people simply want to determine for themselves what is happening with their money, that would be a scandal, a state that with the money of its citizens could not satisfy all the (perceived) needs by itself, would only a shadow of what to do SPD and dark-green.
Trittin's argument is particularly insidious and revealing. His wording implies that it is the "State" is, which makes the rich are so rich, so it is also the right of the state to take away the wealth. Thus, in well-thought-communist, indeed Leninist manner: The state is everything, the individual is nothing, as only for the state. Trittin can deny his radical left home before.
A proposal in this right: Why does her co-thinkers of Poss and Trittin is not equal to set income limits? Income limits, it is so widely as possible enter under the name of minimum wage. With upper limits could be quite elegant to the State all income over let's say zuschanzen 100,000 euros. Then the state would finally everything he needs! And the apparatchiks like Trittin and Ernst and Gysi had the say. What a thought! is
in America by no means everything better, but the appreciation of the individual and his freedom is an achievement that we in Europe should keep quite well. Finally comes the idea of political freedom from the Enlightenment and the bourgeois revolution in Europe. However, we also carry the legacy of Stalinism and the romantic socialism. This disease is still not overcome.
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