Merkel Does The Devil's Work | 167 comments (167 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Merkel Does The Devil's Work (none / 1)

This cannot is especially regarding the recent crumbling of switzerland as a tax haven a quite dubious claim.

by IM on Wed Aug 28th, 2013 at 03:06:54 AM EST
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I wish you would read what I actually wrote. I said you cannot campaign on it alone. Something can be done. It just doesn't win you an election. The German Social Democrats did kill the tax amnesty treaty with Switzerland. There has been no effect in the numbers.

by oliver on Wed Aug 28th, 2013 at 03:20:04 AM EST
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Now you are shifting the goalposts. That is very much not what you wrote. You claimed that is impossible to campaign on tax evasion, tax harmonization etc. without campaigning against the euro. And that is obviously not true.

by IM on Wed Aug 28th, 2013 at 03:51:19 AM EST
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Hey, Schäuble does it at the EcoFin...

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Aug 28th, 2013 at 04:02:55 AM EST
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The German Social Democrats tried. Their candidate for chancellor tried even while he still was a minister. It didn't work.

by oliver on Wed Aug 28th, 2013 at 04:12:47 PM EST
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So can you tell us what are the forces in German society that consider the Euro synonymous with tax evasion to foreign havens?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Aug 28th, 2013 at 04:17:48 PM EST
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Merkel Does The Devil's Work | 167 comments (167 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)