Talk:Germany
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[edit] Economy
I'm not an economist, but I think this article does not represent a neutral point of view (NPOV). According to the article, Germany's economy is suffering because Germany pays a lot of money to people who don't work (I am not quoting, but working from memory here). Is that the only reason, or the main reason? Are there possibly other reasons? Drkeithphd 22:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
- In Germany we have the phenonema, that a lot of companies get extreme good results and fire people the same time, e.g. Deutsche Bank, Allianz, Siemens,... The incomes rise up lower thsan inflation rate for a long time, what means, even the people with work lose income. Nearly no one hires people. The fellowing problem is, that many people don't have enough income anymore and the private consum rises down. Germany is very good in export, but in the country only the discounters have a chance to sell something. The other thing is our extreme complicate taxtation. Big companies have the chance to pay nearly no taxes by a lot of legal tricks, others have to pay more, but the state is poor, what means nearly no investments by the state anymore (since the end of the 90's). And the third thing are the mistakes by the management of the unification of Western Germany and the GDR in 1990, what costs a lot every year. Espresso 23:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I´m from Germany and here many people think that the money for people, who don´t work is not very big!