Bundesbank suggests Italy should expropriate 20% of consumer’s wealth to reduce debt load

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-27/a-bundesbank-economist-has-a-radical-plan-to-halve-italy-s-debt?srnd=premium-europe

I am not sure what is more crazy that this is being proposed at all or that the proposal comes from a high-level official (deputy economist, head of Bundesbank public finance) of another government. Says everything about the German interpretation of “solidarity”.