{"id":16578,"date":"2009-12-09T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/german_development_minister_against_transactions_tax\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T04:55:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:55:21","slug":"german_development_minister_against_transactions_tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16578","title":{"rendered":"German development minister against transactions tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s new development minister said Saturday he opposed taxing financial transactions, putting him at odds with support for such a levy expressed earlier this year by Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am speaking out clearly against a tax on financial transactions which would be used to finance development aid,&#8221; said Dirk Niebel, a member of the pro-business Free Democrats who took up his post in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is already a stated position of the liberal party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gC27peq0XTopAHP1C9ktzL9pbNZw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s new development minister said Saturday he opposed taxing financial transactions, putting him at odds with support for such a levy expressed earlier this year by Chancellor Angela Merkel. &#8220;I am speaking out clearly against a tax on financial transactions<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16578\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,149,200,478,599,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-europe","category-germany","category-stock-market","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}