Suddenly, stealthily, last month Chancellor Gerhard Schrder proposed abolishing the corporate capital gains tax.
Schrder is also reducing taxes on profits and cutting the top personal income tax rate by 15%.
Going further, Schrder says he'll chop the corporate tax rate on capital gains from 40% now to 0% next year.
Last month Schrder picked a Veba man, Werner Mller, a board member at Veba's coal power operations, to become Germany's Economics Minister.
Gerhard Schrder rode to office promising to increase jobs, not destroy them.
The country's Green Party, now coalition partners of Socialist Chancellor Gerhard Schrder, are demanding that Germany decommission its nuclear plants within seven years.
The good news: Chancellor Gerhard Schrder is abolishing the corporate capital gains tax and cutting the top personal income tax rate by 15%.
Germany's Gerhard Schrder understands this: hence the brave income and capital gains tax reform proposals he announced in December and continues to fight for.
Beyond that, Schrder has a long relationship with Hartmann and Veba.
Last fall, Britain's Tony Blair asked Schrder and Jospin to join him publicly in signing the so-called "third way" agreement to develop more market-oriented government policies.
All of which means that Schrder is likely to look after his old Veba friends, as Hartmann works to fend off the Greens' most onerous antinuclear demands.
Labor hates the idea, German business won't fight for it, and Schrder's attempt at tax simplification is even now being larded up like a bratwurst weeny at the margins.
Gerhard Schrder, the German chancellor, recently intervened in the takeover battle between the U.K.'s Vodafone Air-Touch and Mannesmann, declaring that hostile bids would destroy "the culture" of the German target company.
Gerhard Schrder's socialists began riding high in the polls.
Amazingly, Schrder's left-wing supporters are not blocking the reductions.
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