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>This is probably also infuriating to other parts of Germany, which pay substantial subsidies to Berlin and a few other poorer states.

It can be annoying but that's what being a unified country is about. Can't say those of us here in California or in NY are too happy about our massive subsidies that go to the red states that accuse us of being full of "welfare queens" but that's the cost of being a country.




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