WSJ: Merkel Pledges Tax Cuts Despite Rising Deficit
Reading with interest the comments of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on cutting taxes while encouraging economic growth. The Wall Street Journal has an article containing comments from a recent speech.
Lower incomes taxes would "provide motivation" and encourage economic growth, Ms. Merkel told a conference of her party, the Christian Democratic Union, and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. "It would be wrong not to do what is right and necessary for growth, and so prevent ourselves emerging quickly from this crisis," Ms. Merkel said in her conference speech.
