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Don't read "Gazeta Wyborcza" Polish newspaper -- wPolityce.pl [83]
Foreign corporations are no more or less 'evil' than Polish corporations.
Indeed. I could tell a story or two about some very sharp practices by 100% Polish owned businesses. One company that can remain nameless has a 5 year guarantee on their products. Problem is, if you actually read the guarantee, then it's only applicable if their service department thinks that it's caused by their negligence and not the consumer. The manager of the department told me with a smile that they have a set budget for replacing products and that's it - so once they hit their weekly/monthly limits, they simply throw out every single other claim regardless of how valid it is.
They'd need to: it's not hard to envisage warehouses being built metres over the Polish-German border which are staffed entirely by Poles and serve solely the Polish market.
And with the not-bad road network that PO left behind (over 1000km is being constructed at the minute!), transport isn't much of an issue as well.
The economic situation in places such as Cesky Tesin is very favourable as well - they need to diversify away from the old coal industry, so I'm sure they'd be more than happy to build warehouses. I can even imagine where - for instance, there's a huge amount of empty land where the old Czech border crossing was (on the S1, next to Cieszyn and the Olza). It's close to the Polish A1, which is connected by dual carriageway/motorway to almost every single Polish city now. Voila.
Poland should evolve away from being mainly a pool of cheap manpower and bargain-basement assembly facilties for foreign-owend and foreign-designed products into the realm of indigenous design and ownership.
I'd say that it's already happening. I know quite a few people that have gone from working in corporations to owning startups - but these people need stable political environments and not random taxes being imposed to pay for socialist welfare promises.
Who will respond by passing that tax straight on to their customers.
And squeezing their suppliers to disguise the actual cost to society. That roll that they currently pay 20gr for will now be bought for 19gr and sold for 35gr rather than 34gr. It's a small example, but the profit margin will be maintained and the poorest in society (that don't have children for whatever reason) will be hurt.
Nevertheless, as Polish birth rate is dramatically low, authorities need to do something to help families to have (when they do want kids) and to raise kids.
Two easy things. Increase the tax free amount for every child (a tax credit of 500zl/month can work) and allow the cost of child care to be deducted against one's tax bill. It encourages people to work, while ensuring that the village idiot doesn't get money for beer.
