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My understanding WAS that it would go on my electricity bill under PO legislation.

This would surely lead lead to POLL TAX like riots. Only Poles are too soft to riot, or even to stand up for their rights.

Oh, and everybody in Poland over 40 has a TV set because they enjoy gormless "entertainment."

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Cough. Do please tell how the government are going to encourage investment, while they would like to tax endeavour, or send their police into every corner of business?

I think that Jon's assessment makes more sense, don't you?

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I refer you to post 926 again. In the UK he would have lost his deposit (Nobody would have voted for him - maybe himself....)

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If somebody stands for election in the UK and gets less than a certain percentage of the vote (I think it is 3 percent) then he loses the admin fee that he pays for standing in the election (a few thousand pounds..) This fee is his deposit (returnable if he puts up a good showing at the polls).

As in:

"The Conservative member for Bigtown was re-elected, and the candidate for the Beer Lovers party lost his deposit.."

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Instead of feeling concern for your country and its' people you mean? The future for its' children. Investment? I could go on, but socialism in a poor country promises the old adage of a money tree, right?

Are you going to contribute more to your mother country? No? I thought not.

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Well, the markets will have their fun. I have oft made more than I earn in a week by playing the currency markets - not that that is a large sum in the scheme of things:) But as I was taught, "Every mickel makes a muckle." :)

PS; i was shocked the other day, being out of the loop, when I had to buy sterling at 5.90. So PIS is good news after all :)

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Very wise. The rest of us, with bricks and mortar, will ride it out.


Nah! In the business community I was nothing unusual. Why do you think the community hates PIS? Of course they are so stupid as to forget the damage PIS did last time, but I'm not. Which is why I don't run a business any more, but work for other nominated people.


So 3 auditsn n 2 years is reasonable?

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A wasted vote. Kukiz is a clown and in the UK he would have lost his deposit, as you well know.

Poles love to play with democracy and you seem to think it is a joke. You are basically all out for yourselves, and couldn't give a **** for your country.

Disgusting.

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Do you run a business.

Under PIS (2 years) 3 audits. Nothing to pay.

Under PO - (8 years) 1 audit. Nothing to pay.

I would have thought even you could understand these facts.


But you shouldn't. You don't live here. You don't pay taxes here apparently. So you have no rights.

PS Wielki: You obviously don't know the process of an audit. For me, it's an aggravation I can well do without. Once every 2/3 years I can accept as normal, but PIS are not normal, and anybody earning more than their "quota" is deemed suspicious. It's back to the bad old days, as every Pole who works for himself will tell you.

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Lol. In three audits they found zilch. And PIS wont find anything on me, because they wont even get in the door. Best not to give these ******* any ammunition of any sort.


Wot are you talking about? You mean RE: PIS voting scum?

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PS as to PIS and their mantra, which people will now get to re-live:

At one time my wife and I employed 30 plus teachers. Thirty. You would think the government would have awarded us some business grants, or some business help of some sort, or in true Polish style, given us a medal.

Instead we got 3 audits in 2 years, and never-ending harassment. We must be rich!!! And where is the the money? And After PIS, and then PO, one audit in 6 years.

Not difficult to work out the suspicion factor in those scumbags, and all the time I was driving a 6 year old car. Fools, and now they are back running the asylum. It doesn't take a genius to realise that they will drive businesses to the wall.

As I said, this a dark day for all of us who have to live here. Conversely, Polonius and Wulkan don't live here and so have no voice.

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NO - fight them, every step of the way. That's what I pledge to do. I remember what my wife had to suffer through sleepless nights, because of their harassment and endless audits.

They are SCUM.

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No - ZUS are going to have to pay out for me - after 20 plus years I qualify for the low band, and you can be sure I will make them pay up. My family also own half of Dabrowa Gornicza. I am looking forward to my retirement - when I am 70 plus - because I am active and love my work.

Unlike the police and the miners..........................

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I DON'T pay ZUS. It is totally legal. There is NO requirement for a foreign natinal to pay ZUS unless he is running a business. I don't. Other people run them. And I work for them. Difficult to prove otherwise. I checked with three different lawyers.

Next question please teenager?


Nonsense - I Pay tax here and paid ZUS for 23 years.

Of course I have a voice. Please behave.

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More right than you after living here and contributing to your country for 23 years.

YOUR country.

MY vote.

But I doubt your intellect is up to that thinking.

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Neither do I.

But PIS harasses small business. 3 audits in 2 years. Nothing found, but a lot of aggravation, and they are generally unfriendly to business in their attitude and governance. I HATE the *******.

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I am a middle bracket taxpayer here of 23 years standing - you would know that if you registered and did your research. As such I probably have more right than you to comment.

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You haven't got a clue have you Polonius. This a sad day for Poland and we all know what stupidity is going to follow:

Lack of investment

Poland's standing and business reputation

Undue harrassment

Hatred of women's rights

Unfair taxes

Xenophobia

Religion and all that "patriotic" nonsense

Subsidies for coal - when a real government would care about Silesia, and blitz the whole "kamienice" area, and rebuild.

That is just for starters, from an ignoramus like myself.

Admittedly the last point (Silesia) is close to my heart, and successive Polish governments are too scared to fight the locals' misconception that the old German working class buildings are to be preserved.

BUT: Let's have a list folks of what you want PIS to do. They are now the government! It's now down to them - after the suitable honeymoon period.

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but you are a clever chap and get up in the morning. How on earth does PIS help you? I don't get it.

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And why would you say that gumishu? Facts please - based on the money in your pocket and opportunities?

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MY Poland will be ******* on PIS posters. We are the people who pay tax here and live here and this government will damage those who are prepared to get up in the morning and do a day's work, and those who innovate.

I am all for social reform but we all know how ****** up the state budget is, and so where is the promised increased welfare payment coming from? Not from my pocket, and that is a certainty.

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Terrible.

Poland will regret this nonsense. I ALWAYS vote Labour in the UK.

PIS are not Labour - and not for the working man. it's a disaster and I will obstruct their minions at every turn.

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Might as well make some money betting on the result. I don't know where you get it from Delph but what I'm hearing here in the Tri-City is that nobody is voting with any enthusiasm for PO. I've even watched the canvassers. People are blanking them. They are fed up with PO as InPolska says.

And Tic-City is the most normal and pro-western Polish City (which is why I live here)

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PIS IS the nanny state Delph. They are socialists. I don't get your argument. Facts as to why they are not to be considered as socialists please?

They want to subsidise the coal industry.
They want to raise social benefits
They want to and will, harass ther small business owner with even more bureaucracy and auditing
They want to interfere in national television and use it as a propoganda tool to counter "PO TVP24"
They want to deny women control over her own body
They want to instil religion and "the proper way to live according to the scriptures" back into mainstream politics
They want to waste our money on the usual witch-hunts, into "Who did what, and can they be prosecuted for anything at all..."

They want to make Poland the embarrassment in Europe that it was the last time they were handed the keys to the ministry of foreign affairs (bring back Cimoszowiec, a proper foreign minister...)

They want to promise all the things they know they can't deliver on, all the time playing the welfare card, and discouraging ambition.
They want to continue the nationalist policy of Xenophobia, and have a dangerous leader who utters such racist filth as "they (refugees) carry diseases..." Plenty of Poles stink, and I wouldn't risk being within 5 metres of them given the choice. I can express an opinion; a politician can't. He deals in facts. Unless he is a clown that is.

Populis, populism, populism. That's PIS

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What would or rather, did, UK lecturers do? In 1984 they went on strike. I know, because I was an undergraduate then. I am always amazed that Polish lecturers put up with the situation, but as I intimated, there are plenty of other ways for them to make money, which are (rightly) closed to their UK counterparts, and to those like yourself who are clean.

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That's a scandal Roger. Mine was always paid in February.

And do you do extra-mural teaching? When I declined to take extra-murals, I was told that it was mandatory, and I would be fined if I didn't.

That was 1992 mind. Bullying and corruption were rife. Half of my first year students were clearly "flown in."
The 13 th salary was there for us all to keep our mouths shut and do as we were told.

I hated it, because it was an inducement to make up (for one month anyway) for the **** university salary of that period.and made me feel used.

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Thanks Jon. And we all would like to think that Kaczynski's heart is in fact in the right place, is spite of all his non PC gaffes, such as the xenophobic comments aimed at the Germans, demanding war reparations 65 years after the event............

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And PIS did the same, auditing my wife's schools 3 times in 2 years.

It's a Polish thing. When Polish authorities/police/whoever/... harass me, I always tell them to get to ****, Steve Jobs style. It's worked so far:)

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I am 100 percent with Kaczynski on this one.

My brother suffered great misfortune, and then to round it off, had a serious accident and was on life support for three weeks. Nary a word from those PC people, or the police, although I am his next of kin, and they were legally obliged to contact me. SCUM.

It has taken me a full week to get the full story, begging on the phone for information, even though the UK social workers and hospitals knew I was who I said I was, and my brother would have wanted me to know the full extent of his condition.

All sorted now, but at first it was long and exhausting telephone calls, kept on-hold, existing of "We can't tell you, because of patient confidentiality.." and "We are not allowed to discuss the patients' ongoing medical problems.."

Terrible for the poor staff to have to quote all this.

That PC stuff is alright, when you live in the same country, and can pop in on a regular basis, but I was doing my ******* nut, worrying about my brother, and they blathered on like this.