That's really great, people: Just when we need a little more dough from you for Cousin State, that's when we're about as popular as athlete's foot. But all I want is your best - your money!

Dog tax, tobacco tax,
motor vehicle and environmental tax.
Did you really think there wouldn't be more?

Sales and beverage taxes
do certainly make a beer expensive,
but that's still not enough for me!

Well you went and elected me
and now you're in a fine mess!
Once again I'm your chancellor for a few more years!

What you can promise today,
you can take back tomorrow,
and that's why I'm collecting every last banknote -
your cash, your moolah, your piggy bank!

Chorus

I'm raising your taxes.
Elected is elected, you can't fire me now;
that's really the cool thing about democracy.

I'm digging deep into your pocket,
every one of you nerds is stashing some dough somewhere
and I'll get it, I'll find it - no matter where it is.

I'm taking you for everything - yeah! You losers!
You'll be amazed, because I know how to keep surprising you.
Oh, there's not a tax I can't think up! Ha, ha, ha!

For example we could consider a bad weather tax, right? That would really bring in the dough! Or a sleeping tax for you bums, or a hair dye tax... uh, no, better not!

A tax on the use of the earth's surface,
a breathing surcharge, air will be expensive,
and I'm just getting started!

A tooth tarif for chewing your food,
bio taxes for digestion,
there's nothing that will be free - that won't do!

I'm a fantastic politician.
Quality has its price.
Anyone who wants to see the Gerd Show will have to pay, too!

Like an income pirate I'm at the helm.
When you fall on hard times, just shop more often at
Lidl or Penny Markt or Aldi... or buy nothing at all!

Chorus

I'm raising your taxes.
Elected is elected... (See above)

Saving on taxes (driving) is quite simple. For example I have a chauffeur so I can can save on (avoid) driving. By the way, do you know the difference between me and a lobster? The lobster turns red when it's boiled (when it fleeces someone). Ha, ha, ha!

Attention! Attention! My dear fellow citizens! Soon there will be another big migration of toads (pennies). The pennies (toads) will go directly from your pocket into mine. Ha, ha, ha! But the unemployed - one could surely squeeze something out of them; there's so many of them.

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