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Germany's Merkel vows to avoid new taxes, work to strengthen EU
reuters.com ^ | February 26, 2018 | Andrea Shalal, Michelle Martin

Posted on 02/27/2018 10:48:08 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday a new governing coalition she is seeking with the center-left Social Democrats would not allow new taxes or new public debt.

... “Reliability means being sensible with how you treat the money of the citizens,” she said. “So we will stick to the clear line of the (conservatives): No new debts, no tax increases and at the same time, record investments in the big future areas.”

... She said Europe’s largest economy would continue to show solidarity with those EU members who “did their homework” on financial matters, but not with those who relied on others to carry their burdens. “It will not be possible ... that others take a rest at our cost,” she said to loud applause.

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1 posted on 02/27/2018 10:48:08 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How about NO MUSLIMS.


2 posted on 02/27/2018 10:49:27 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Germany confirms 2017 surplus and GDP growth
3 posted on 02/27/2018 10:50:48 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

HAHAHA!

The blow back from Trump’s trip to Davos Switzerland - after slashing our BS Corp Income Tax - has hit the fan.


4 posted on 02/27/2018 10:52:10 AM PST by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“With a tax tax here
And a tax tax there
Here a tax
There a tax
Everywhere a tax tax
Old Frau Merkel loved to tax
EIEIOwe”


5 posted on 02/27/2018 10:53:00 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

“With a tax tax here
And a tax tax there
Here a tax
There a tax
Everywhere a tax tax...”

And soon enough, there’s no doubt which side of the peak in the Laffer curve you are on.


6 posted on 02/27/2018 10:55:27 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Unless center-left means something different in Germany I don’t see how you can form a coalition with them on the basis of no new taxes. It’s like trying to form a coalition with a lion with the groundrule that there will be a strickt vegetarian diet. It goes against their nature.


7 posted on 02/27/2018 10:58:20 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Angie is spooked by AfD being 2nd in some polls


8 posted on 02/27/2018 11:01:45 AM PST by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service ... #ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

She didn’t mention the cost of importing hordes of homicidal savages.


9 posted on 02/27/2018 11:03:21 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Kick all the muzzies out, and let no more in, and you’ll be the good chancellor that you were. Your mistake was listening to bammy when he visited. Did he threaten you with something if you wouldn’t let millions of muzzies in?


10 posted on 02/27/2018 11:27:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I see Merkel is back up and running again in her destruction of Europe for her Boss Putin


11 posted on 02/27/2018 11:31:09 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Read Angela Merkel’s lips.


12 posted on 02/27/2018 11:34:26 AM PST by TheNext
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Is Merkel, a homely childless bag of flab and bitterness - now exacting her revenge on the pretty girls by importing Muslim rapists?


13 posted on 02/27/2018 12:44:09 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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