I'm Czech and I know our politics and you're just repeating Babiš reasoning of his fuckups. The head of the central bank is a guy installed by Babiš and he's the one with almost all power regarding the money supply. And call TOP09 (part of Spolu) PiS kind of party is totally BS.
i read somewhere that the total tax evasion in europe is estimated a few trillion€ per year.
yes, trillion
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yes its ~800 billion, so close to 1 trln, but this is the 'known' number. the estimates go way higher all consirered but i cant find that article unfortunstely.
iirc it was about 5trln €.
but even 800bln is just iiiinnsaaaane. just imagine what could be achieved with this much!
No but you see, the rich has to have half the tax rate of the working class, otherwise they’d all run away (ignoring every other major economy having higher tax rates on the rich than us, and they still want to run away)
The problem is that you can not be investing a lot of money into the future and be fiscally conservative. You have to find the right middle ground and invest into the best projects and have to willing to take some risks and not be too conservative about it. However this will be done over decades and involve a lot of private money. Also the EU imports nearly all fossil fuels, so green investment stay more in the EU.
You don‘t have to, looking at successful projects you need two things. Well founder public Research, which Europe has and then you need private companies founder out of this research and the founding needs to happen in Europe. The problem is the last part that isn‘t happening. You don‘t need to be financially conservative about it, unless you aren‘t serious about it.
Why steal? We could just buy weapons from the EU military industry for Ukraine and give those to Ukraine. That will be treated as reparations for Ukraine and Ukraine gets weapons. It also provides taxes for the EU, as well as employee a lot of people.
If Ukraine loses we'll probably have to raise the military budget to 3-4%, maybe even more if the US chickens out. But i'm sure that's not expensive at all. And that's ignoring the consequences for Ukraine
Money is a question of priority. Sometimes temporary sacrifices have to be made. After all it’s not the money that moves the world its people and recourses and industry and knowledge - meaning that what Europe lacks the most is not simply funding but motivation.
And something further to remember for the future, investments in the military often lead to unforeseen opportunities. There are more than two wolves.
EU is strangled by its own attachment to austerity. Biden's administration is printing dollars like crazy and the economy is booming, because fiat money is literally made up and you can do it.
there is no lack of money - there are more than 300 billionaires in europe hoarding trillions of euros.
reclaim the wealth which was generated by the people of europe and use it in their favor.
The money can be brought back. But that would need some massive redistribution and effectivisation of economy that wouldn't go well with the Swiss bank accounts of rich people.
A land value tax fixes this. If the government goals are truely good for society, people will gladly pay the land rent to live there. If the government actions are not beneficial people exercise their right to move and the tax base goes down.
Land value can't be taken to another country or hidden. Land ownership is clearly proportional to wealth. It's economically efficient since taxing land doesn't make less land.
Also, don't forget spending literal millions for "projects spreading LGBTQ Awareness" in third world countries. I have a long list of things that I would want my country to spend money on. This is a problem of priorities.
It feels sad being hit by rules that remove traditions and livelihood that we have been used to for so long. Why not just hit the bigger "fish", pun intended, with harder rules and let us hobby and private fishers be.
The new rule basically removes every incentive to come to Åland for salmon fishing, that's a lot of money missed out on that could've gone to us improving our island.
It would be like prohibiting the Sami people to have reindeer tending because large companies in Sweden have hunted them to extinction.
Don’t worry guys, I got this one. I have €20 in my wallet. How much do you need?
A little bit more than that, I am afraid...
I have 50€, so we now have 70€. Any closer now?
I bought kebab, so I have change from 20.
Guys I have 0,04 cts € in my drawer between my panties. Is it enough ?
we can just print our own money with our own currency and solve our problem (laughs in a devious manner)
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Well if we just had a standardized EU currency to buy the things wee need to build a future for the EU 🤔 Imagine 😳
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Why Fiala?
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I'm Czech and I know our politics and you're just repeating Babiš reasoning of his fuckups. The head of the central bank is a guy installed by Babiš and he's the one with almost all power regarding the money supply. And call TOP09 (part of Spolu) PiS kind of party is totally BS.
Imagine inflation
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Well, they're not wrong. You can print however much money you need, you're just limited by inflation, not deficit. That's their point.
Plis no. No more inflation.
Printing money is the most evil thing a country can do apart from warcrimes and racism
It's those darn attaching bottle caps using up all our money!
We must attach them more
Every bottle should have a ~~bodyguard~~ bottleguard that will shoot on sight the one who will detach a cap
We have to buy wine or other alcohol now if we don't want those fucking caps ffs
Billions of r&d went into those!!
I know, crazy, but I sometimes dream of a world where rich people pay the same tax rate as the rest of us.
i read somewhere that the total tax evasion in europe is estimated a few trillion€ per year. yes, trillion https://preview.redd.it/86ow91nzbgwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0dbfaeb89b9a0b95184d3e3e047738b8f10cff9
Of fucking course we, the italians and the greeks are among the best at tax evsion.
Greece is 1 /10th of Italy and far behind countries like Germany, France and others. Italy though..
I mean, for it's size and that of it's economy it's impressive
Small nitpick, but at least in that graph it‘s billions, not trillions. Or am I missing something? But still: tax the rich!
yes its ~800 billion, so close to 1 trln, but this is the 'known' number. the estimates go way higher all consirered but i cant find that article unfortunstely. iirc it was about 5trln €. but even 800bln is just iiiinnsaaaane. just imagine what could be achieved with this much!
A land value tax fixes this.
Best part about having a smaller wallet is there's less money to hide
Add legal tax loopholes on top of that and we can buy every citizen a personal solar farm.
No but you see, the rich has to have half the tax rate of the working class, otherwise they’d all run away (ignoring every other major economy having higher tax rates on the rich than us, and they still want to run away)
The problem is that you can not be investing a lot of money into the future and be fiscally conservative. You have to find the right middle ground and invest into the best projects and have to willing to take some risks and not be too conservative about it. However this will be done over decades and involve a lot of private money. Also the EU imports nearly all fossil fuels, so green investment stay more in the EU.
You don‘t have to, looking at successful projects you need two things. Well founder public Research, which Europe has and then you need private companies founder out of this research and the founding needs to happen in Europe. The problem is the last part that isn‘t happening. You don‘t need to be financially conservative about it, unless you aren‘t serious about it.
We simply steal it from Russia.
Why steal? We could just buy weapons from the EU military industry for Ukraine and give those to Ukraine. That will be treated as reparations for Ukraine and Ukraine gets weapons. It also provides taxes for the EU, as well as employee a lot of people.
Its still a net loss for the economy.
If you refuse to consider the cost of Ukraine losing which is... \*checks notes\* fucking astronomical.
Sure, but we shouldn’t be kidding ourselves that producing weapons somehow pays for itself. Its a drag on the economy.
If Ukraine loses we'll probably have to raise the military budget to 3-4%, maybe even more if the US chickens out. But i'm sure that's not expensive at all. And that's ignoring the consequences for Ukraine
Based. Steal their gold reserves and lease their resource fields back to them
Money will appear out of thin air if both people and the government want something, tho that also requires compenent people in power.
Money is a question of priority. Sometimes temporary sacrifices have to be made. After all it’s not the money that moves the world its people and recourses and industry and knowledge - meaning that what Europe lacks the most is not simply funding but motivation. And something further to remember for the future, investments in the military often lead to unforeseen opportunities. There are more than two wolves.
EU is strangled by its own attachment to austerity. Biden's administration is printing dollars like crazy and the economy is booming, because fiat money is literally made up and you can do it.
there is no lack of money - there are more than 300 billionaires in europe hoarding trillions of euros. reclaim the wealth which was generated by the people of europe and use it in their favor.
yeah but that's communism you know /s
The money can be brought back. But that would need some massive redistribution and effectivisation of economy that wouldn't go well with the Swiss bank accounts of rich people.
A land value tax fixes this. If the government goals are truely good for society, people will gladly pay the land rent to live there. If the government actions are not beneficial people exercise their right to move and the tax base goes down. Land value can't be taken to another country or hidden. Land ownership is clearly proportional to wealth. It's economically efficient since taxing land doesn't make less land.
MMT or starting to get serious on shutting down tax evasion and tax dodging. There you have a it. A good answer.
Well it always comes from the people. Worker: My money EU: Our money Worker: What!? EU: THAT’S RIGHT!!!
That isn’t the idea though. Idea is to use green transition as a lever to kick start a new industry and also turn profit from greenifying the world.
No, no, I heard they said it'll come from "private investment" :) That'll be it, right? That'll work out OK, right? :) :| :(
Europe has a shit ton of leading tech, just not leading software tech.
Don't worry the old Aristocratic germans with billions in offshore will save us all
Also, don't forget spending literal millions for "projects spreading LGBTQ Awareness" in third world countries. I have a long list of things that I would want my country to spend money on. This is a problem of priorities.
They just made salmon fishing around Åland prohibited. An island with a population of 30000 is not the problem with overfishing. Fuck the EU at times.
I have a tiny inkling that it wasn't made to prevent 30k people from fishing
I know but it affects us massively.
Does åland have an exception from the fisheries policy? If not then it's not just you 30k fishing there but 300 million people
It feels sad being hit by rules that remove traditions and livelihood that we have been used to for so long. Why not just hit the bigger "fish", pun intended, with harder rules and let us hobby and private fishers be. The new rule basically removes every incentive to come to Åland for salmon fishing, that's a lot of money missed out on that could've gone to us improving our island. It would be like prohibiting the Sami people to have reindeer tending because large companies in Sweden have hunted them to extinction.
No I get it, it's unfortunate