Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth
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Wow is this a bad article, full of half-true side tangents and „they're not gonna make it ayway.“
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I wonder if DW and its friends are scared
PS. The initiative has been around for a while, is independent to any party: https://www.tax-the-rich.eu
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DW is the german government's international broadcast. It's the only actually state-owned and tax-funded media outlet left in Germany.
Critical voices have risen since the current director general, Peter Limbourg took over. Employees went to The Guardian in 2020 to open up about antisemitic, racist and sexist power structures and cultures of bullying, abuse of power and oppression.
In 2019, the editor-in-chief advertised for Ursula von der Leyen for the EU elections.
Incidentally, Die Linke criticized a new direction of the programs in 2014 right after Limbourg took over in 2013.So, yeah, DW might not like Die Linked very much.
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The US left party too
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The USA has a left party? What is it called?
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Just to add to this. There is a bit of a buffer between DW and the government. That is supervisory board with appointees from the government, the chambers of the parliament and 10 German organizations representing the German public. So it is not like they just follow the orders of the German government. In fact two of the three highest position in DW have been appointed when Merkels conservative government was in power. That explains them being as willing as they are to attack the current German government, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
What makes DW different is that it is directly financed by the German government.
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It is quite likely that we will not make be part of a government, but the plans are there and every person we convince, that this is the way to go is good.
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Sounds good to me
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How about we halve the billionaires while we are at it?
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It's not fair... It should be way more than that.
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The mythical left leaning USA political party. I heard a long time ago it comes out once every thousands years before quickly crawling back under the rock for whence it came.
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That's fine by me. Just leave me a piece
preferably the bit that contains all the hard work they did to become a billionaire. -
Better than no coverage at all imho.
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That’s a fantastic quote. This is how you can still run campaigns today!
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If they halve the billionaires wealth then there will be zero billionaires
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Yeah, but it not unlikely that "Die Linke" wont get into Parliament because of the "5% Barrier"(A Mechanism that prevents parties from entering the German Parliament, if they are below 5% total votes. There are some complicated exceptions, but basicly this is it). Furthermore many Parties dont want to form a coalation with them and this could be against german constitution
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Like cut them in half? The guillotine is more traditional, but I'd consider trying something new.
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it's called Agenda Setting.
