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December 05, 2002
Thursday
 
 
Schroeder takes the shirt off the backs of German taxpayers
Guest Writer (Terra, Sol)  European affairs • German affairs

Paul Staines reports on the latest rather splendid twist in the ongoing German anti-tax protests about which Adriana first reported last month on Samizdata.net

There is a brilliant story at wired news about a tax protest with a difference. It started as a wacky idea in an Internet chat-room but now thousands of Germans have sent Chancellor Schroeder their shirts. Schroeder has donated the thousands of shirts his office has received to charity. Shame he does not show some charity towards taxpayers...

The political campaign is being promoted with this rather fetching picture of Katja Kassin in the process of losing her shirt! Who says the Germans do not have a sense of humour?

Paul Staines

Comments

Nudity and tax revolts go together like, um... I'm stumped.


Posted by Anna at December 5, 2002 01:29 AM

It's a German Thing, Anna.

... not that I am complaining about either the tax revolt or the nudity.


Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 5, 2002 01:37 AM

Germans are so much less prudish than puritanical Americans. Bless them, bless them all.


Posted by Lucas Wiman at December 5, 2002 08:58 AM

The nudity is a reference to the way the Chancellor is "taking the shirt off the backs of young Germans" with new tax increases just as unemployment tops 4 million.

And have those of you so impressed by Miss Kassin actually looked at her face? I suspect not. :)


Posted by Peter Cuthbertson at December 5, 2002 11:48 AM

http://www.samizdata.net/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/2533

Makes sense to me. Redhead or blonde?


Posted by paul staines at June 10, 2003 01:30 AM