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cms neuf   
26 Jan 2020
News / Poland economy is a financially drained economy of suppliers? [33]

I don't know - if they paid 250m and that's the l8mit of their exposure then ok. If it's 250m plus pensions on top of that then it's risky.

I will give credit to PiS that they have let LOT recover and it has a nice niche as one of the best networks for Eastern Europe, not just to the capitals and with convenient times, I'm worried this might upset that recovery.

The history of Polish state owned firms investing outside Poland has been fair,y disastrous - Orlen had some big problems in Germany and Czech: KGHM a couple of horror shows too.
cms neuf   
24 Jan 2020
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Yes electric cars are stil generate much lower emissions than ICE even after taking into account the generation of the electricity, the production of the car, spare parts etc.

There are plenty of resources on the internet with all the proof and calculations you need

Obviously not good news for expert Ice Hockey playing politicians who rely on high oil prices to keep their population happy and rely on fossil fuels to bully their neighbors.

As someone else said we need to have the debate about nuclear fuel in Poland but politically very difficult
cms neuf   
22 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

No - higher earners pay a vastly disproportionate share of the total tax that the govt collects. That is the same in all EU countries. It's not just income tax - they pay tax when they earn interest, tax when they buy and sell stocks, tax when they buy a flash car, tax when they fly for their holidays, tax when they buy a house.

The paradox is that the middle and working classes in Poland pay a far higher percentage share of their earnings but a far lower gross amount. They also are benefiting from moves like 500+ and 13th pension.

innpoland.pl/152281,panstwo-lupi-biednych-im-mniej-zarabiasz-tym-wieksze-podatki-placisz

Difficult to find a fair system, but all are fairer than your medieval idea of only using the tax for the police and the army.

In any case the EU has basically no say in tax structures in each country, except VAT, so whatever is good and bad about the system is down to Poland's politicians and voters.
cms neuf   
22 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Are you serious dude ? An accounting professor from an unknown school in West Virginny.

The guy has such eccentric economic knowledge that I am amazed he is in that position - he can't even write in paragraphs, something I learned when I was about 9

But anyway I understand his solution for the old and the disabled is that we rely on charity and the church.

Is this minimal state thing your desired destination after Polexit ?
cms neuf   
22 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Once again you are speaking nonsense - the government has plenty of other sources of cash. Sale of licenses, tariffs, fines, interest And many taxes that are paid by foreigners. of course none of these will exist in your night watchman state where people would be busy clobbering each other over the head and hunting in the forest for wild mushrooms and szczaw

You are wondering why people call your theories wacky.
cms neuf   
22 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Yes I am sure the Czechs (whose currency is tied to the Euro) and Slovaks (who use the Euro) would be thrilled to ditch their thriving export economy in order to please some eccentric neighboring governments. They are thriving now - in all 4 countries living standards are at record levels, why would they risk that ?

Have you ever worked in those places ? Spent any time there ?
cms neuf   
22 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

So if you want to spend your own money on NGO to buy some new r shirts and hover boots for some bored Slovak teenagers then go ahead. Of courses most countries rightly have laws against foreign funding of political parties.

Im confused about your minimal state to be honest - do you mean I have to club together with my neighbors to fix the roads ? Some of them are drunk, some are kids, some are very old and none of them know about fixing roads. . Maybe a better idea is that people pay money into a big pot and hire some professionals to do it - that sounds kinda like a functioning tax system.
cms neuf   
21 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

spike I am happy with the overall rate of tax %- it's one of the lower ones in Europe and there might come a day when I need the safety net myself.

Sure some of it could be spent better and I am very uncomfortable with direct handouts that you get just for breathing, but I lived in a few countries and they all wasted money in their own particular ways.

Nothing would make me vote Konfederacja - they are total whack jobs. I met Korwin Mikke a few times and he is a loony for real - it's not just an act.
cms neuf   
21 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Well refugees were one of the reasons people voted for PiS

The main reason though were that people were tired of an increasingly corrupt PO

And another reason was 500 plus (not sure if those benefits would survive In your idealized night watchman state, but if not then probably good that Konfederacja break the news now that they intend to stop them - Then we will see what presses the buttons of Polish voters who actually live here)

Honestly I don't see much difference to myself in paying tax money to refugees or paying it to some poor family in Polska B - they are both necessary and they both make me poorer but I accept that that is a part of life.
cms neuf   
20 Jan 2020
Work / Minimum wage, multiple jobs and ZUS [3]

Depends on few factors - type of work, type of ZUS coverage etc - get a Polish speaker to talk you through the examples in the ZUS guide on umowa zlecenia

zus.pl/documents/10182/167567/Poradnik_umowy_cywilnoprawne/542ecb21-490d-4877-a27f-8524116f08fe

Or ask the HR dept of the second business. Or ask an accountant for clarity.
cms neuf   
19 Jan 2020
Genealogy / Toboyek Surname Widnace Location Help [13]

Might be Swidnik rather than Swidnica - Swidnik was in the Russian partition and fits more with he other info.

Omelian is a Ukrainian version of Emilian - a Polish Christian name.
cms neuf   
19 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

But the Wikipedia link you sent talks about police, army and laws to protect property. This is a medieval system that would only ever benefit the people who had money at the time it was set up.

The state performs thousands of functions and generally the more advanced a state's role is the richer the country is - the highest living standards are in high tax countries, and mostly that comes with a good balance of freedom and citizens rights. I am generally a free markets, low tax person myself but I would rather live in Sweden than in Somalia.

There are some activitIes like public sanitation, protecting wildlife or looking after disabled people that will never be profitable - in your nightwatchman state then those people and animals would presumably be left in the street (except there would not be any streets because it's not profitable to maintain them).
cms neuf   
19 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Nope - who would check your Japanese school was a real school ? Who would make sure those companies pension schemes invested it safely ?

Who would supervise airports ? The police can protect property but not stop people speeding (even though there wouldn't be any roads). Who would give accurate weather forecasts ? Who would make sure my beer wasn't poisonous ?

And the only place for police to recruit is in private primary schools ?

Btw - UK companies have pension schemes because it used to be the law. Where it is not the law (like in Poland) they don't have them. Chances of such a system being voluntarily implemented and self regulated are zero.

I'm not sure Harvard and Stanford are managed better - they are old and have the benefit of the English language to attract the worlds best teachers - just like state run Oxford and Cambridge which are always in those top 10 lists.

In Poland for instance stare run universities have far better students than most private ones.
cms neuf   
19 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

I dropped those because you said some people only measure economic benefits.

It is not only about NATO - the EU has a great deal of police and border cooperation. And war is less likely when your economies and supply chains are joined.

As for health then the EU makes drugs and equipment cheaper but rising living standards, lower unemployment all have huge effects on public health.

So what are the benefits of leaving the EU for a Pole, in Poland ?
cms neuf   
18 Jan 2020
News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Without doubt maybe a third of the city activities is idle speculation. But the other 2/3 is both useful and necessary and has financed great inventions from steam engines to railways to modern day computing and Pharma. I realize that those things could be funded by the government, as they were in communist Poland, and we all know what Polish technology was like in the 70s and 80s.

I don't know where this idea of becoming a second Singapore comes from and why it is attractive - there are already plenty such options in Europe, all small countries like luxembourg, Cyprus, Switzerland, Monaco etc. you can't run a low tax economy when you have got 60 million mouths to feed.

Britain has some fantastic industries where it is still a world leader- aerospace, pharma, finance, whisky, computing. Those are all industries that are going to be royally shafted by Brexit.

And yes it will take many years for the negative effects to be shown - I know that kind of reasoning doesn't appeal to Brexit voters who like Daily Express headlines and at the moment are getting wound up about a 19th-century alarm clock ringing