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heroic myth of the middle class

other day I saw a video presentation by Vera Birkenbihl about how media form our opinion. Cited Birkenbihl woman, from the book "What is an entrepreneur?" By Prof. Eberhard Hamer. Then the middle class more than 80% would take account of the public finances. Mrs. Bikenbihl echauffiert about the fact that the entrepreneurs have the middle class, despite this important role in the company such a bad reputation. I now get riled about women's views Birkenbihl uncritical acceptance the testimony of the middle class pays 80% of all state taxes. Perhaps it is because women Birkenbihl a business woman herself to the middle class too. Because we also believe in times like large projected numbers if they have a self as a (n) appear hero (in) work. Here are my own (very middle class-friendly) assessment.

If you look at the tax revenue of the Federal Republic in 2007 , we can see, first, that the following taxes at all not paid by medium-sized companies:

sales tax (better known as a value added tax): 31, 5%

payroll taxes: 24.5%

tax: 4.3%

tobacco tax: 2.7%

power of: 63%. That is, the middle class pays more than 37% of tax revenues.

Hamer is one reasonably well the contributions to government revenues. But even under the completely unrealistic assumption of all employees would be working for the middle class, the SMEs would bear only 50% of the contributions.

Now let's see how to beat the percentage of government revenue (tax and social security) than the middle class pays: In 2007, the tax revenue around € 538 billion. The middle class has paid more than 37% of them, or about 199 billion €.

Social security measures in the same year about 476 billion € . The middle class has paid more than 50% of them, or about 238 billion €.

The State therefore has taken € 1 014 billion and of this, the middle class pays a maximum of € 437 billion. This corresponds to 43%. Far from the 80%, the middle class lobbyist Prof. Eberhard Hamer likes to wear in front of them and that is hawked on the homepage his think tank, the Central Institute of Lower Saxony state.

To explain the 80% Prof. Hamer recalls in his book "What is a sub Hemer" on one of his earlier writings, "Who funds the state?" Of 1982. A (legal) freely accessible exposition of his bills, which seeks to lead the 80% to the net, unfortunately in vain. But even in "What is an Entrepreneur" to get a clue as to how he could have expected.

Hamer says simply: the tax and social security, number of employees of small businesses are ultimately also contributions of the middle class. This may be formally correct, because if the middle class would not be were it not for the wages of these employees. Conversely, however, that the Medium without the employee would have never earned so much money. Hamer assesses the performance of the company rose indeed higher than those of its employees. But not an employee of a contractor gets more salary than his job performance value. The employee has earned his salary so that Hamer and it imputes to the principal leaves me free to call Shakespeare: My not yours? That is the question!