Hasn't this always been the case? In Austria that was the norm until the government changed the laws this year. I've assumed in Germany they also had a "Spekula

Hasn't this always been the case? In Austria that was the norm until the government changed the laws this year. I've assumed in Germany they also had a "SpekulationsSteuer" (a tax of which they've pretended that it helped against rich speculators, which of course it didn't, because that's nonsense).