Posted on 03/25/2013 3:14:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Two wealthy German states have filed a lawsuit in the country’s highest court challenging a system under which money is redistributed to less prosperous regions.
Bavaria’s state government said it and the state of Hesse filed the suit Monday with the Federal Constitutional Court. …
The system is supposed to help ensure equal living conditions nationwide. …
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Oh those foolish Germans! How can they be so dumb as to let their wealth be redistributed!
We do the same thing, but on a much bigger and more efficient scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_by_state
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Bavaria was never conquered by the Germans and only signed a treaty to co-exist as one nation with the option to leave the country any time it wanted to. The Germanic people could never keep up with the people in the hills and got crushed every time they tried to invade.
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