Berlin: The government’s new taxes on alcohol aren’t
working. New data show that Germans,
faced with the higher taxes, are simply abstaining, leading to a 40% decline in
alcohol tax revenues for the government, when it was budgeting a US$90 million
increase. Worse, news reports confirm
that the German government’s outlays for the unemployed would make the nation
the equivalent of the largest employer in the world – indeed, in world history
– if the monthly checks were for wages.
Unemployment is predicted to rise as high as 5 million over the winter
if nothing is done to turn the tide.
Paris: Some 2,000 troops are on duty throughout the
city to guard against communist violence expected on “International Anti-War
Day” tomorrow, ordered by Moscow to be celebrated worldwide on the anniversary
of Imperial Russia’s mobilization for the World War.
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