Rich Germans: Tax me to save the country!

[the_future_modernes]

Rich Germans demand higher taxes

A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.

The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany's economic recovery.

Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid a 5% wealth tax for two years, they say.

The petition has 44 signatories so far, and will be presented to newly re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The group say the financial crisis is leading to an increase in unemployment, poverty and social inequality.

Simply donating money to deal with the problems is not enough, they want a change in the whole approach.

"The path out of the crisis must be paved with massive investment in ecology, education and social justice," they say in the petition. MORE

Comments

[acari]

*snorts* I wish them luck. Our new government would never go there in a million years.

[the_future_modernes]

its really nice to see a bunch of richguys not being selfish amoral aholes, ala the usa ones.

[acari]

I think it's telling that I can hardly find anything about the petition in the German media.

Sadly, our new government is conservative/libertarian so they'd never raise the taxes for rich people. The only party who'd do that is Die Linke, the socialist party.