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Polonius3   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

favour large foreign ones

PF'S ANTI-POLISH WING IN ACTION

Where ther's a will there's a way. If the poltical will existed ways could be found to level the playing field so all players would have fair and equal opportunities. Maybe a ban on undercutting prices on basic foodstuffs so they would cost as much at Tesco as in the corenr shop. The technical details are for politicians to work out.

I know one thing for sure: PF's anti-Polish wing will always find reasons to keep Poland down. The EU forbids it or foreign captialists will find a way of circumventing any Polish control. If there's talk of increasing the volume of Polish cultrue on the airwaves, one of you will call Polsih culture crappy and equate it with disco-polo. Any attempt to keep foreign business domination in check will evoke a response such as Polish employers treat their workers worse. Even if that's the case, should Poland be eternally doomed to crappiness? The true patriot will step back, size up the situation and see what can be done to improve things. The self-proclaimed expat "patriots" may wildly flash their freshly acquired Polish passports but essentially will take the pro-Western, pro-corporate, pro-eurocrat and effectviely anti-Polish side in any row.

Just scroll back through their posts to see their cleverly worded excuses and explanations and it'll become quite clear.

Polish companies also have relocated

Delph has provided the freshest example by saying Polish firmm have also relocated abroad to get tax breaks. That may be true but let's first ask ourselves: How many Polish businesses have relocated abroad compared to the foreign ones exploiting Poland?
Polonius3   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Why don't you describe

Why don't you describe how and why foreign banks and retail chains have not been paying their fair share of taxes to the Polish state. Also why the EU and local Petrus amd Michnikites didn't start screaming that Poland was illicitly giving preferential treatment to foreign business entities.
Polonius3   
16 Jan 2016
Off-Topic / Which PF expats are corporate "sleepers"? [55]

Polish as central asian

Poles didn't fall out of a Christmas tree and land between the rivers Bug and Odra. Their forerunners, the Scythians and Sarmatians trace their roots to the Central Asian steppes and that haplotype is also found in parts of Scandinavia. The Polish level is 57, higher than anywhere else except Lusatia which (I believe) is about 60. It is also fairly high in Ukraine and Slovakia forming a contiguous swathe of high R1a territory.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

22. ZAKOPANE

Here's No. 23: Dupia Wólka: big rally planned in village square, but it got called off. The sołtys had a bad hangover so his remaining two office staff decided not to come. Two grass-roots partrticipants not attached to the sołectwo office turned out but seeing nobody there made a beeline to the village inn instead. They left their PETRU NA PREZYDENTA banner outside.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

endless ex-PZPR

You still haven't named 4 or 5, which to you is an "endless number".
Nomenklatura is a mental shortcut here to mean that actual PZPR party brass, generals, media types and others who teamed up with KOR types to create rthe roundtable and were able to retain their positions in the adminsration, worm their way into Balcerowicz's privatisation machine or use their PZPR contacts to go into business. That was possibłe because the collaborating Michniks, Mazoweickis and the whole UD and UW not only turned a blind eye to it all but actually helped them.

There's a big difference between a few appointees which every party has and an entrie class of post-PZPR dynasties, profesesional groups, supportive media, etc.

Those "successful" types, as you would doutless call them, are the nachapani. The rest of the nation who have effectively lived in PRL for the past 26 years are the wyjebani. (See Google Translate.) I'm surprised that such a "Pole" does not know his recent history.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Latest information from

Just goes to show the country is riddled with ex-PZPR people, post-nomenklatura types and Michnikite-style leftists. Many joined SLD and similar groupings. After all Gierek's PZPR had 3 mln member and they didn't all die off or move to Madagascar. And most had families. That explains why there are so many in the 40-60 age group marching under koryta banners, because they feel disentitled. After the roundtable Poland got divided into the nachapani and #. Now the formerly nachapani got # and they don't like it one damn bit!

OPRpost-nomenklatura types
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

you all wanted solidarnosc

But nobody wanted a re-run of nomenklatura which we now see in the KOD camp.
Poles wanted and want a EU that's a voluntary federation of sovereign national homelands. They did not vote for a huge all-powerful Brussels bureaucracy that would tell countries how to run their internal affairs.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

downgraded the zloty to BBB+

Just goes to show how much the post-commie KOD are harming the country. Were it not for all the hoopla, commotion, rabble-rosuing, Michnikite hysteria and Schetyna-style snitching, Poland would not have been attacked by the Gerrie-led Brussels Behemoth.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

"free movement of goods and services"

Free movement of goods does not prohibit national states from taxation. At least that's one area the Brussels Behemoth has yet to usurp.

Has the 2% tax been passed? If so, from when? I'm not familiar with it.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

They never really lost

There was that one poll that showed Petru in the lead, but maybe it was a fabrication or. One wouldn't put it past that Komitet Obrony Koryta lot and their media toadies.

people from all ages

Younger Poles mają ich w d*pie. Try Google translate for that.
KOD protesters are dominaterd by those old enough to have been in the PZPR. MO, ORMO, retired PRL-era army officers, commies-turned-businessmen after 1989 and assorted Michnikites of KPP ancestry.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

pro-democracy rallies

PiS have reclaiemd their lead in the latest CBOS poll:
PiS - 39
Petru -22
PO - 13

Thta strongly suiggests that all the clamorous KOD hoopla attarcts only certain niche groups, not the nation at large.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

any redeeming features

At least we know all know what you think of Christians who are disgusted by bloke on bloke perversion and want to protect impressionable youngsters from it. Each to their own!
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

1.49zl VIP lager

Dunno. Haven't had any for weeks. High class tipples like Russkoye and VIP are only for the Christmas-New Year's holidays. Maybe round about Easter....?
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

not domestic one

Somone or something (courier, post, forwarding service) has to physically deliver the goods. In today's e-era there are ways to slap a tax on the goods the moment they enter Polish territory even if delivered by drone or pigeon post.

For a vigilant and thoroughly pro-Polish government nothing is impossible.
All the expat renegades are constantly thinkling up ways to circumvent the law and outfox the Polish state. And then they pretend to be Polish patriots. LOL: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

sell without the tax applied.

You can sell from Timbuctoo or even the moon but you still have to deliver the goods. Slap a delivery tax on all foreign e-outfits when they deliverr to clietns in Poland. That'sll fix their clock!

A good government are one that protect their coutnry's market first and foremost and taxes foreign interlopers out of existence!
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

horrible unintended consequences

....horrible unintended consequences for the oligarchs and other bloodsukcers. Boo-hoo, sob, sob, poor oligarchs, poor bankers, poo nomenklaturists......
Our hearts should all pump purple pony p*ss for them!
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

large buyers to source outside of Poland?

Your thinking is always about how to serve and protect the biggies and circumvent the law so the rich get richer nad f*ck the poor.

Everything can be regulated by law as needed. Where there's a will, there's a way.
In the narration of pro-captilist market freaks, the plutocrats always win out and the little guy gets shafted.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]

keep on keepin' on

I recall that slogan (keep on keeping on) from a novel titled "The Good Bad Boy" which we read in Catholic school. There was no Negro context, as the novel was all about Caucasian Americans.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

pro democracy march

I was replying to lower-case jon's attack on the late Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczyński who he claimed was "known for banning marches that he disagreed with".

He only banned a pervert parade and rightfully so considering the collateral psychological and educational damage caused by such abominable spectacles.
Not the mention the waste of taxpayer money on police protection and the inconvenience to townsfolk posed by disrupting normal traffic.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

corner shop is not able to negotiate prices

You and your expat mates always seem freeze-framed in what is rather than what should be. A good government, and the PiS administration is precisely that, should change things for the better. If there's a problem, a way to solve it must be sought. If someone is shedding crocodile tears over the poor family-owned corner shop that cannot compete with the biggies, then one way would be to mandate equal prices. Suppliers and wholesalers could not charge different prices for a large supermarket chain and a corner shop. That way ordinary shoppers would pay the same and many would prefer to shop at nearby local shops rather than drivng or taking public transport to outlying shopping centres. The law can be used to favour the wealthy, this class or that clique, but the LAW can also serve the cause of JUSTICE. Law and Justice, that is!
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]

"don't stick your neck out"

You most certainly did. Here is the full quote:

"I'd suggest something more like "just do your job" and/or "don't stick your neck out" or "keep your head down". I might even go with something like "just do your job and don't think about it" for the alienation and fatalism."

"Just do your job and don't think about it" is closer to the general gist. Except job does not suggest solely or even primarily one's livelihood. "Róbmy swoje" is roughly "let's just do our own thing", in the context of early Solidarność suggesting setting up enclaves of freedom, activities not overseen by the regime, expanding the limits of what's possible.

Just curious -- why should your clients be unhappy or concerned about what some random PF poster has to say?
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]

not sticking out

You display a lack of what Germans call Sprachgefühl for the Polish tongue by either misconstruing concepts or reading into them things that do not exist. Róbmy swoje absolutely does not imply or suggest sticking one's neck out. It means simply ignoring (in this case) the PRL regime with the possible subliminal hint of a hope that maybe it'll just go away.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
Off-Topic / Which PF expats are corporate "sleepers"? [55]

Polish DNA

Bóg Honor Ojczyzna was the motto of Polish Forces in the West in WW2 by the decree of the Govt-in-Exile. It was restored after communism was ditched. But regardless of when it was officially decreed, it has always encapsulated the essence of Polish heritage, what Polishness is all about.

Polish DNa is a skrót myślowy for the R1a haplogroup of which Poland's population has the highest level. Only Wends (Lusatians) have more. BTW there are companies that analyse your ethnic DNA.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]

"Do your own thing"

Wrong. Róbcie swoje or róbmy swoje is Polish for do your own thing. It was popular in the early Solidarity era. The suggestion being -- let the regime be and do what it does but we will just ignore it and do our own thing.

Linguistic nuances often cannot be translated.
Polonius3   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

is not curtailed

Bollocks!!! Then what was that Arab-rape episode over New Year's all about, when PC-obsessed police and media failed to rerport it becuase it might make migrants look bad. The PC dictatorship are the gretaest enemy of free speech and use various terms (sexism, intolerance, homophobia, hate speech, xenphobia, racism) as pretexts to muzzle free expression. In PC-land one is free only to spout libertine-leftstream twaddle, all else is supect.

temper temper

Already the Romans knew you were coming when they coined the concept of ad absurdam. Just in case you don't recall your schoolboy Latin in basic terms it means when at loss for a relevant argument turn everything into a joke and maybe people will forget what was being discussed.