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Polish Silesian Autonomy movement [67]
we could ask the same about Warszawa and get the same answer,
Yes... So why create additional institutions If result is the same ?
The taxes generated by those in Silesia should go to Silesians, what's so hard to get about this concept?
LOL ! There's the army, police, courts, embassies and many other national institutions to finance. If the taxes generated in Silesia, go to Silesians, then more taxes outside of Silesia need to be generated to pay for these institutions.
Please explain why other people in other regions should be so privileged as to have Silesian tax revenue pay for the projects in their region?
Because this is largely what a country is about ? So you now... people from Białystock pay for the highway in Silesia and so on...
If you were to pay more after Silesian tax revenue stayed in Silesia then wouldn't that be an indication you've been enjoying more than you've been paying for?
Of course not. If 10 people living in one building pay electricity bill for the street lamp in front of their building and then 1 of them stops doing it, then others have to cover his share -> so basically they are paying more, no matter if his share was 5%, 10%, 15% or 1%.
Each voivod population should have more autonomy, not only Silesia.
You clearly have no clue what autonomy is about. It is not about more money staying in the region, in Poland each voivodship/gmina etc. gets x % of taxes generated on its teritory, that x could be increased significally without any "autonomy" (or descreased with "autonomy").
"Autonomy" for one region means that we would see for example "Silesian Ministry of Education" with the one in Warsaw still being in place... "Autonomy" for all regions would mean... 16 ministries of education... one in each region...
The less centralized government, the better.
The less government, the better. I don't think 2 (or 16) ministries of education are better than one. The best would be no ministry at all, reduce it to some department with 20-30 employees in total and that's it.
As it is now, Polish politicians have mismanaged and wasted a great deal of tax revenue and they've been able to do that under the current system.
Yes, Polish politicians have mismanaged and wasted a great deal of tax revenue, they've been doind that on central, regional and local levels, also in Silesia and If Silesia gets autonomy, Polish politicians will be there - mismanaging and wasting a great deal of tax revenues. The main difference will be that they will have more jobs (with regional "government" being created) to distribute to their buddies, more public orders to steal from etc.
A less centralized system should get people more involved at the local level. Surely you have to recognize this.
Sounds good but:
1. Poland has been decentralized for +20 years, the effects are mixed... some are good, some not so much... the whole idea with people "being more involved" is not very visible...
2. Any kind of "autonomy" is not needed to get the country less centralized.