Questioning Israel’s right to exist is terrible but doesn’t make somebody a Nazi

I visited Berlin recently and there was a pro Palestine protest every other day. What on earth are you talking about?

Maybe one day you will open up a bit. Bye bye

Nope. I just don’t pride myself on being cynical and dramatic. I try to point out commonsense but difficult patterns.

Aren’t you the person who used to bully people who posted politico.eu links?

A tax on any income from capital and automatic wage indexation are effective policies.

They don’t deliver paradise (US has wealth tax, Belgium has indexation), but neither will these reforms.

Well, the problems you point out (corruption and superrich) are real. And this package does not address them at all.

But there is another problem, too, which is adressed. Some parts of Europe do not bring enough new goods and services to market. One big reason for that is that Germany has not had a capital-based pension system and is not business friendly enough.

Economic growth should never be the only goal. The good part of this goal is that it comes hand in hand with better and new goods and services that make life better.

Well, if implemented fully, the package could raise Germany’s long-run trend growth from roughly 0.4% to around 0.7% per year. That’s not bad. Pretty impressive actually since this would only be the contribution by this package by a government to growth. (Not counting business cycle, global demand or firms’ contribution to growth)

What would improve the economic outlook?

Could you explain to an outsider what is so terrible about the sweeping reforms?

What’s bad about it?

Well, government intervention is actually really complicated and that’s why lots of bureaucrats learn from past failures and try to figure out how to do better.

It’s false of course. Plyth and HK-65 are just engaging in “Germany bad”. Don’t feed the troll.

Talk about projection, dear. The Hungarians enabled Orban.

I fully agree with you. The housing market for low cost housing is failing and requires government intervention. Maybe the details of this measure will be published once the parliament works out the laws. Budget and timeline, sounds like that’s the parliament’s job to decide.

So that’s gutting the social state and tearing up the social contract.

You Germans…

How much would be enough?

Okay, so you cannot give an example of what would be big. You also don’t give an example of what policy would have a big impact. That’s not constructive.

600 euro per household is not big. Would 1200 euro be big?

Yes, I fully agree with you! I mean, who doesn’t?

Support the state of Israel, but also support regime change in Israel. That’s the way forward. Good that the EU is closely tied to Israeli businesses and can leverage this connection.