1930s Germany Shows Us What's Wrong With GOP Tax Plan

Hitler at the Tag von Potsdam (Day of Potsdam) ceremony for the opening of the new Reichstag after the German federal election, March 1933. Wikimedia Commons New economic research shows that bad tax policy was instrumental in bringing about the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933. Austerity measures implemented by an incompetent Weimar government had the unintended consequence of radicalizing German voters. The U.S.