Comments on: The German econblogger space is just fine

By: Putziger Bloggerstreit mit Süddeutscher und Spiegel Online | Blick Log

Putziger Bloggerstreit mit Süddeutscher und Spiegel Online | Blick Log — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:50:06 +0000

[...] weist darauf hin, dass es zu Salmons Beitrag bereits eine durch den US-Blog Creditwritedown (“The German econblogger space is just fine”) ausgelöste Mini-Debatte gegeben hat. Schade, dass die nachdruckenden Websites dies komplett [...]

By: Mark Wadsworth

Mark Wadsworth — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:05:00 +0000

Ta for mention, I’d like to point out in the context that I’m half-German and I lived in Germany (and worked in tax) for nine years.

I learned a lot of stuff over there about how silly these ‘targetted tax breaks and subsidies’ are, i.e. where their tax/subsidy system is superficially exactly the opposite of the UK but leads to a similar end result, which renders most of the tax/subsidy code in both countries superfluous.

By: egghat

egghat — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Blush. I’m kind of moved.

Thanks a lot!