Economic Freedom

Prologue: Imagine a political talk show in which someone proposes to abolish the statutory health insurance and the performance of SHI in the future instead be financed through income tax surcharge on the following:• Up to a limit of 3,750 €, the rate is 15 percent.• Between € 3,750 and € 9,250 to the tax rate decreases gradually to 6 percent. Readmore…

The current debate on conscription and the probable abandonment or suspension creates a new debate about the introduction of an alternative compulsory service for young people in Germany: Prime Minister and other officials, above all, the major political parties and other social groups, the Universal Service obligation for men and women, so the youth, if the military conscription fell away, in another place “at least once in a lifetime social responsibility for their country” would take over. Readmore…

As a result of the so-called central Federalism Commission II was recorded in Germany in summer 2009 on the Swiss model, a new “debt limit” in the Basic Law. They involve the federal government in 2016 capped the annual budget deficit of 0.35 per cent of GDP in 2011, the federal government reduce its structural deficit gradually to achieve the stated target value 2016th For the federal deficit countries even a strict ban applies from the year 2020, this prohibition is accompanied, however, require in the transition period from 2011 to 2020 through debt assistance for heavily indebted countries, and a binding repayment plan. Readmore…

The Greek philosopher Parmenides Taught that thought is language. According to linguistic confusion is confused thinking – and confused thinking again:”His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold Simultaneously two opinions Which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was Necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Readmore…

The older among us still, HB cigarette advertising is known in which moved quite a nervous and often clumsy man of an everyday disaster in the next, and then regularly to go to anger in the air. The so-called HB-male calmed down by smoking a cigarette and then everything went as if by themselvesThe advice, to smoke a cigarette, is certainly not good, the Council after a disaster like the Duisburg Once reflect calmly and soberly analyze the problems, but is excellent. Readmore…

Professional footballers were able to increase their income in recent years disproportionately. As the highest paid footballer in the world currently is Christiano Ronaldo with 12 million p. a. The German international Philipp Lahm earned the highest paid professional footballer than eight million. Readmore…

During the last weeks and months and more frequently haunted the concept of power protection law for publishers through the internet. Contributions to both are found in various blogs and in the various websites of the publishers and the online platforms of other media. There were also already held first meetings and panel discussions on this issue and the policy has been intensively engaged with this issue. Readmore…

In contrast to the publicly expressed his vows of European power elite exists in U.S. government circles, in terms of policy-relevant future of the Euro-zone, considerable skepticism could break the €-zone, and hence the € would his – albeit after the USD's second most important – function as a transaction and reserve currency in the world lose. Readmore…

The Olympics are next to the soccer World Cup, the largest and commercially most important sporting event. Even if the economic evaluation of major sporting events for the host cities or countries is not without controversy, is the prestige out of the question, so that in recent years a significant increase occurred in the number of candidate locations. Readmore…