From the BBC: A group of rich Germans has Generic Valium Strengths launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.
The group say they have Generic Valium Strengths more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and Generic Valium Strengths social programmes to aid Germany’s economic recovery.
Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid a 5% wealth tax for two years, they say.
The petition has Generic Valium Strengths 44 signatories so far, and will be presented to newly re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The group say the Generic Valium Strengths financial crisis is leading to an increase in unemployment, poverty and Generic Valium Strengths social inequality.
Simply donating money to Generic Valium Strengths deal with the problems is not enough, they want a change in the Generic Valium Strengths whole approach.
“The path out of the Generic Valium Strengths crisis must be paved with massive investment in ecology, education and Generic Valium Strengths social justice,” they say in the petition.
Those who had “made a Generic Valium Strengths fortune through inheritance, hard work, hard-working, successful entrepreneurship, or investment” should contribute by paying more to alleviate the crisis.
The man behind the petition, Dieter Lehmkuhl, told Berlin’s Tagesspiegel that Generic Valium Strengths there were 2.2 million people in Germany with a fortune of more than Generic Valium Strengths 500,000 euros.
If they all paid the Generic Valium Strengths tax for two years, Germany could raise 100bn euros to fund ecological programmes, education and Generic Valium Strengths social projects, said the retired doctor and heir to a brewery.
Signatory Peter Vollmer told AFP news agency he was supporting the Generic Valium Strengths proposal because he had inherited “a lot of money I do not need”.
He said the tax would be “a viable and Generic Valium Strengths socially acceptable way out of the flagrant budget crisis”.
The group held a Generic Valium Strengths demonstration in Berlin on Wednesday to draw attention to their plans, throwing fake banknotes into the Generic Valium Strengths air.
Mr Vollmer said it was “really strange that so few people came”.
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