gumishu
20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
I agree with you that 500+ programme is a bit cynical and aimed at winning votes easily as tax threshold raising would only affect those who actually work but it did have an impact on the economy - there is over 5 per cent rise in retail sales in 2017 compared to 2016 (in some months the year to year rise was even above 10 per cent) - at the same time the alcohol consupmtion in Poland hasn't risen dramatically (if I remember correctly the rise was about 2 per cent) so it looks like the money from 500+ is more or less well spent - also the unemployment is at historical low (counting from the communist times where it was formally null) - which means there is not really that many people who only rely on the programme as their sole source of income)
Answer my question, why not raise the tax threshold? Not a vote winner, as that would mean working for a living to feed those kids?
I agree with you that 500+ programme is a bit cynical and aimed at winning votes easily as tax threshold raising would only affect those who actually work but it did have an impact on the economy - there is over 5 per cent rise in retail sales in 2017 compared to 2016 (in some months the year to year rise was even above 10 per cent) - at the same time the alcohol consupmtion in Poland hasn't risen dramatically (if I remember correctly the rise was about 2 per cent) so it looks like the money from 500+ is more or less well spent - also the unemployment is at historical low (counting from the communist times where it was formally null) - which means there is not really that many people who only rely on the programme as their sole source of income)