Schröder's fall continues

The newly elected government of Gerhard Schröder has been declining steadily in the polls since it was elected. The Germans are not taking kindly to the huge tax increases that he is dumping on them. The German economy is in deep trouble and higher taxes are going to make matter even worse.

The latest expression of dissatisfaction in Germany with Schröder's policies comes in the form of a satirical song, which portrays Schröder as a thief and a liar. He steals from a Red Cross collecting tin and flushed the constitution down the toilet. The lyrics are pretty brutal too (I'm only translating parts of it):

What you can promise today
you can reverse tomorrow
and that's why I'm getting myself every last bill
your money, your loot, your piggy bank!

[Chorus]

I raise your taxes
Elected is elected, you can't fire me now
That's the cool thing about democracy

I'll delve deep into your pockets
each one of you is hiding some dough
and I'm gonna get it, I'll find - no matter where it is

I'll clean you out, yeah you fools
you'll be wondering but I can still surprise you
there's no tax that does not exist for me!

In the song he also muses about a bad weather tax, a ground-use-tax, a breathing levy, a tooth tax for eating... you get the idea. Inevitably, there are already calls for this song to be banned. This is the gut instinct of the Euro-sophisticates; ban speech you don't like. The First Amendment is after all such an unsophisticated concept...

(More on European attitudes to free speech at USS Clueless and The Volokh Conspiracy.)

UPDATE: There's a whole web site dedicated to the song. It's called Steuerkanzler, or Tax Chancellor. It has Real Media streams of the audio and part of the video! (The audio stream has not worked for me though).