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Nach einem Ende der Coronavirus-Pandemie will die Union so schnell wie möglich wieder ausgeglichene Haushalte, die "schwarze Null" und keine weitere Aussetzung der Schuldenbremse. Trotzdem soll es keine höheren Steuern geben, vielmehr noch Entlastungen für Unternehmen sowie für kleine und mittlere Einkommen. Mit einem "Entfesselungspaket" will die Union die Wirtschaft von Steuern und Bürokratie entlasten, Unternehmenssteuern bei 25 Prozent deckeln und zudem die Lohnnebenkosten auf einem "stabilen Niveau von maximal 40 Prozent" halten. Höhere Spitzensteuersätze und eine Vermögenssteuer...

World, and now this is going to bring us when you throw in the state taxes back to average. we're going to achieve mediocrity with this cut, but that's fine. paul: it's still a little bit below. it's 24 for the oecd average, i think. >> right. so if you take the 20% federal in this bill, you add the state taxes, you're roughly in that ballpark which is good enough because there are so many other reasons to invest in the united states. if we can finally now get competitive on the tax side, you can really see that growth kick up. we got a couple of good quarters now, maybe it keeps going. and th...

The white house said we'll cut the corporate tax rate to 20%. corporations are going to bring back all this money. invest it here on main street in the u.s. very unclear historical whether that is going to be the case. and we still have to see how much it's going to cost. >> how much is it going to cost potentially? >> i think a lot of experts believe this is not going to be a revenue neutral plan. a lot of it depends how much growth do you get from a tax cut. the white house and many republicans have said that tax cuts just simply create growth. but there is not a lot of evidence in the last ...

Barometer? >> so it is a little bit concerning, but to put it in more context, the united states has never really done well on these sorts of international assessments. since the '60s and '70s, we've scored in the middle or bottom of international rankings. in particular, our high school students do not do well in these assessments. however, in 2011, an economist at stanford found that improvements in test scores, particularly in math, do correlate to economic growth. however, the united states does outperform the predictions that you would get using that model. >> yeah, but isn't that kind of...

government this week? i'll explain. first, here's my take. if you are trying to understand the recent protests against the putin regime in russia, one of the best guides is an outspoken columnist that's been writing essays in the nation's leading newspapers over the past month. political competition is the heart beat of democracy. this author writes "noting the absence of such competition in contemporary russia." he describes the frustrations of the russian middle class, demanding political rights. today the quality of our state does not match civil society's readiness to participate...