Truger, Achim - In: Prokla : Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 39 (2009) 1, pp. 27-46
From 1999 to 2005 the former Red-Green government in Germany enacted a series of ambitious tax cuts that were supposed to boost the German Economy. The article argues that these tax cuts instead of boosting the economy involved major costs. The revenue losses induced substantial expenditures...