Comments on: Merkel Wins 2nd Term in Germany, Touts Tax Cuts http://www.taxgirl.com/merkel-wins-2nd-term-in-germany-touts-tax-cuts/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vibaku http://www.taxgirl.com/merkel-wins-2nd-term-in-germany-touts-tax-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-12258 vibaku Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:48:53 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=4105#comment-12258 Merkel has reluctantly agree to expanding insurance of bank deposits, she did sign a stimulus plan, but as criticized the US for the overly large one that we have enacted and criticized Obama for planning further stimulus plans. She has stated her plan for further Free-Market reforms in Germany. Historically, she has supported reducing the VAT and substituting a flat tax. While German coalition politics have forced her to compromise some of those views her core positions are for fiscal restraint. She has been closer to Bush than Obama in her Middle East policy. This was not a win for Obama, and unlike CNN's reporting it does not show a weakening f her position, but rather she is stronger because she is able to take on a more conservative coalition partner than she had previously. Merkel has reluctantly agree to expanding insurance of bank deposits, she did sign a stimulus plan, but as criticized the US for the overly large one that we have enacted and criticized Obama for planning further stimulus plans.

She has stated her plan for further Free-Market reforms in Germany. Historically, she has supported reducing the VAT and substituting a flat tax. While German coalition politics have forced her to compromise some of those views her core positions are for fiscal restraint. She has been closer to Bush than Obama in her Middle East policy.

This was not a win for Obama, and unlike CNN’s reporting it does not show a weakening f her position, but rather she is stronger because she is able to take on a more conservative coalition partner than she had previously.

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