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Contradiction and the electoral ’successes’ of social democracy

Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009

... is real should not be doubted. Germany’s Finance Minister under the previous government, Peer Steinbrueck, was the man who criticized Labour’s massive programme of state expenditure as “ crass Keynesianism “. Steinbrueck is a member of the Social Democratic Party. This should show just how wrong we would be to trust to what we know of party political lineage. The SDP may have...

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Merkel, Free Democrats Start Talks as Tension...

LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009

... recovery. Tax-Cut Differences The forecast was made in June by Social Democratic Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck and takes no account of 35 billion euros in tax cuts sought by the FDP. Merkel’s tax pledge amounts to 15 billion euros over her four-year term. Merkel will also have to try to merge the platform of her bloc, which includes the Bavarian Christian Social Union, with...