BB, can you really prove that Poland isn't paying its fair share?
interview with Donald Tusk (Financial Times)
Bratwurst Boy 8 | 11927
25 Dec 2008 / #32
We have to recognize that an economy freed of unneeded regulations is more effective.
Disagree!
The so called welfare state of Germany was mocked about for decades and bureaucracy and regulations are traditional high, didn't hinder us to be an economic power house since the sixties and export world champion 4 times in a row (even with the additional task of the GDR burdened).
Now look at the prime examples of "free" market (here meaning as having as few regulations as possible) the US and the post-Thatcherite Great Britain - now broke with once key industries already gone or about to be destroyed!
It isn't the having or not-having of regulations which makes or kills an economy!
Actually some more regulations in the US and GB and we wouldn't have the current crisis!
It's often more about investment but it really depends on the nature of the regulations.
That is not my quote but it is my belief.
No, there are plenty of regulations in the US. Many of them are poor and outdated.
Of course capitalism needs some regulation; otherwise we're at the mercy of the greedy. In the end incentives have to exist for people to lend capital in order for business to get started, for jobs to get created, and for wealth to be accumulated.
Spare me the BS of having the government bureaucrat be the watchdog.. The argument that these folks are virtuous is one that doesn't hold water.
Now look at the prime examples of "free" market (here meaning as few regulations as possible) the US and the post-Thatcherite Great Britain - now broke with key industries already gone or about to be destroyed!
No, there are plenty of regulations in the US. Many of them are poor and outdated.
Of course capitalism needs some regulation; otherwise we're at the mercy of the greedy. In the end incentives have to exist for people to lend capital in order for business to get started, for jobs to get created, and for wealth to be accumulated.
Spare me the BS of having the government bureaucrat be the watchdog.. The argument that these folks are virtuous is one that doesn't hold water.
Bratwurst Boy 8 | 11927
25 Dec 2008 / #35
BB, can you really prove that Poland isn't paying its fair share?
It isn't about "fair share"!
Poland can't finance a new enlargement, it will be the net contributors like
Germany again and we already still chew on the current enlargement...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#State_by_state_analysis
Net benefit per capita:
Germany: -1045
Poland: +1705
Doesn't Germany have a say in vetoing accession/ratification?
Bratwurst Boy 8 | 11927
25 Dec 2008 / #37
Of course capitalism needs some regulation; otherwise we're at the mercy of the greedy...
Well...I agree!
Your former post seemed to imply the less regulations the more efficient the economy = ergo no regulation at all the most efficient economy, and that is just not correct!
Doesn't Germany have a say in vetoing accession/ratification?
The same as the others too...the vote has to be unanimous!
No, I believe there needs to be regulation. I also believe that the regulation be clear, concise, and revisited.
Nothing beats free markets and capitalism.
Nothing beats free markets and capitalism.
Again, the key word in life is.....balance!!
Bratwurst Boy 8 | 11927
25 Dec 2008 / #40
Can we pay in subtle little pieces of Prussia?
You would?
Stettin for apathy or Podolski?