This being said, you can pretty well arguably wipe out the US federal budget deficit by taxing the top 1% at the same levels they were taxed at under the Nixon admnistration. And if you tax them at Eisenhower levels, you'll have enough to pay for healthcare reform.
Can't speak to income distributions or tax and revenue incidence in Germany, but in the US, that's how it works. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
But neither party in the US believes in fair taxation, because their major funding sources would not be happy with paying their fair share. The free rider problem is one of many flaws of basic human nature, and the concentration of power in the US has gone so far as to make reform very difficult, if possible at all. Imho. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
