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Ah,this again.
The mentioned discounts apply on all pharmaceuticals sold in Germany, regardless on where they were manufactured.
Citing them as the reason for relocating planned facilities is clearly no business decision but political blackmail.

And it’s no wonder the IW also pushes this framing. They are little more than a glorified industry lobby group.

I may have overlooked it, but I did not see a single chart nor any mention in the text addressing the tax burden for an individual worker.
Which would be a far more meaningful discussion that the pure number of taxes.

each tax means a new adviser

That is evidently untrue and I doubt they want to tell us that French companies need 300+ tax advisors. Yes, more taxes can mean more complexity. So do more laws, more employees, more customers or more product lines.

This is a completely pointless truism than does not prove anything.
They just claim that it’s bad without anything substantial to back it up.

The statement that you can raise the same tax revenue with fewer taxes shows that they don’t understand why different taxes exist in the first place.

Also it conflates taxes, fees, social security contributions, all of which may follow different legal and budgetary rules.

On principle, not necessarily.
The article just makes it sound like it would just be a bilateral thing and the remaining member states just accept or veto the accession. It's likely a more complex and involved process than it's made out to be.

Also if they actually do change how voting works, they might as well push for more qualified majority instead of unanimity.

I don’t quite understand how this is supposed to work.

AFAIK there is technically no ‘veto’ that you can just deny individual members. Certain policy decisions require unanimity.
Seems like they’d need to redraw the contracts and change how voting works.

I think that's soap?

Germany accepted rules limiting troop size or banning nuclear weapons but I doubt there was a rule that forbade Germany from writing a strategy paper.

it’s only a thing in Abrahamic religions

Christianity is an abrahamic religion and afaik does not have anything to with this anywhere except the US.

Lend me your ear

But when you become a living USB stick, you get to talk to dolphins.

nobody dresses up like characters from the godfather or citizen kane

The character in these movies are simply regular somewhat well dressed people of their time.
Are you claiming that nobody ever wears a suit?

And people dress up as their favorite characters all the time. It's part of every fandom.

Gravitation water vortex power plants seem to be more flexible and have less environmental impact than traditional hydro power.
Though the tech still seems to be in its early stages.