From Spiegel, 2005 about for supporting my view, that nurses and progressive tax will as well in the future have something in common:
"The additional tax step to 45% was for earners of 250,000 Euro+ [..., that was an 3% increase]
SPD general secretary Klaus Uwe Benneter said the additional income would be 1.2 to 1.5 bn Euro. [...]"
The constitutional court has ruled, that the tax rate must not be significanty above 50%. But obviously even an increase to lets say 75% income tax for the really rich, would only fill additional 15 bn Euro into pockets of the public spending more than a trillion. Actually that was this diary all about.

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