With the downturn and steep tax increases on large-cylinder cars, luxury cars are selling at bargain-basement rates.
Even landlords who are facing steep tax hikes may decide to carry on, because the alternatives are worse.
So despite a steep tax on nuclear fuel, they are a cheap and reliable source of power that emits almost no greenhouse gases.
One reason is that most of the company's money is generated overseas and bringing it back into this country creates a steep tax liability.
Faced with this steep tax rate, the taxpayer might decline the second job, meaning that the government would never collect the additional revenues from her earnings.
And the prospect of steep tax cuts for business and the citizenry offers the enticing picture of a Germany freed from excessive financial regulation.
Still, the government managed to pass a stiff new austerity budget with steep tax increases on Tuesday, even as protesters demonstrated angrily outside the Parliament building.
Britain's previous, Labour, government stepped back from steep tax rises in 2001 for fear that smuggling would surge.A second possible change is more radical.
Consumers and businesses, still reeling from steep tax increases, government spending cuts and a long stretch of sluggish economic activity, have sharply curbed spending.
Mr. Roth was also the co-sponsor of a proposal for steep tax cuts, known as Kemp-Roth, with Representative Jack F. Kemp, Republican of New York.
But these came with strict terms attached: a series of brutal austerity programmes entailing deep budget cuts and steep tax increases.
