Did Germany vote against the flat tax?
Monday, 19 September 2005, 00:45
The only thing clear so far in the German election is is that Angela Merkel had a disasterous result. Widely exepected to win easily, her conservative CDU/CSU ended up a hairs-breadth plurality.
Things may have turned sour for her when she appointed flat-tax advocate Prof. Paul Kirchhof as her potential finance minister.
This allowed Gerhard Schröder to attack Merkel for apparently favouring radically neo-liberal economic agenda. It seems to have worked.
Update: Michael Stickings of Moderate Voice has a similar view.
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