delphiandomine
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]
Oh my word, Gumishu, what are you talking about? Have you completely ignored the massive amount of investment in Poland over the last few years? What about the fact that Poland is the outsourcing capital of Europe now? What about all those factories and warehouses that are springing up all over Poland? The improved VAT collection had very little to do with that - and everything to do with the fact that Poland was seen as a stable and predictable place to do business combined with cheap wages on a European level.
...because there are now possibilities for them to work in real companies and not just those run by Janusz and Seba? Take Amazon - every day, there are buses arriving from all over Wielkopolska and Lower Silesia to deliver workers to their warehouses. That's a real and tangible impact on the employment situation in small towns and villages.
Now we see what the real problem is with independent media. They won't allow the simple narrative of "VAT sealing means we can pay generous benefits" - they will look at the numbers and present the true situation, contrary to the government's propaganda.
500+ is unfunded. It's as simple as that, and it's being paid for through direct and indirect taxation, money transferred from other sources (health, education, etc) and through debt. I'm in education, I know how public schools are starved of investment, I know how small towns and villages are really struggling to even pay teachers because the amount of money from the government is falling each year.
And you're right about doctors and so on, but let's not forget that it was PO/PSL who started on the path of the JPK and PiS implemented it. Both PO and PiS deserve their share of the credit for digitalising and monitoring VAT - neither is particularly better or worse in this sense.
the economic boom we had was mostly because of the influx of the money that used to leak to VAT fraud into the official economy
Oh my word, Gumishu, what are you talking about? Have you completely ignored the massive amount of investment in Poland over the last few years? What about the fact that Poland is the outsourcing capital of Europe now? What about all those factories and warehouses that are springing up all over Poland? The improved VAT collection had very little to do with that - and everything to do with the fact that Poland was seen as a stable and predictable place to do business combined with cheap wages on a European level.
especially to those who had very little before (who could suddenly afford more than just bread and margarine)
...because there are now possibilities for them to work in real companies and not just those run by Janusz and Seba? Take Amazon - every day, there are buses arriving from all over Wielkopolska and Lower Silesia to deliver workers to their warehouses. That's a real and tangible impact on the employment situation in small towns and villages.
Now we see what the real problem is with independent media. They won't allow the simple narrative of "VAT sealing means we can pay generous benefits" - they will look at the numbers and present the true situation, contrary to the government's propaganda.
500+ is unfunded. It's as simple as that, and it's being paid for through direct and indirect taxation, money transferred from other sources (health, education, etc) and through debt. I'm in education, I know how public schools are starved of investment, I know how small towns and villages are really struggling to even pay teachers because the amount of money from the government is falling each year.
And you're right about doctors and so on, but let's not forget that it was PO/PSL who started on the path of the JPK and PiS implemented it. Both PO and PiS deserve their share of the credit for digitalising and monitoring VAT - neither is particularly better or worse in this sense.
