The 'Soli': a tax on the rich?

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For the past three decades, German taxpayers have paid a “solidarity contribution” from their wages, the purpose of which was to pay for the rebuilding of the former east to bring it up to par with the west.

In a project called Aufbau Ost, over a 150 billion euros were poured into building new roads, cleaning up polluted waterways, kick-starting…