Originally Posted by: letmethink 
Richard wrote:."These proposals are going in the wrong direction, attacking one of our best tools to generate growth - the European budget - of which 94 percent goes back to the member states. The proposal we have today is a political capitulation and we are going to reject it," [Joseph Daul] says
This is like our government justifying stealing our hard-earned by saying that 95% is returned to us.
Let me make this clear Monsieur Daul . . .
IT'S OUR MONEY!
YOU ARE NOT MY MUM!
I DO NOT WANT YOU TO GIVE ME POCKET MONEY!
Ahh... but "giving" most of it back is
synergistic with the tax that they want imposed on financial transactions. 0.4% of €1,000,000,000,000 is just slightly more than 0.4% on €950,000,000,000. Transaction both ways earns both ways. Compare that to what could be collected as 0.4% on €50,000,000,000.
Taxes on taxes? Of course. They'll simply call is comething other than "tax".
BTW: "Pocket money" is precisely the impression that I got of East German wages in 1987.
The concept that "the people" and their sovereign nations cannot manage their own financial affairs than a bunch of elite nincompoops with they heads up each others @rses is insulting to adults. It's the nincompoops who haven't grown up; they act like petulant children, having their little tantrums until they get what they want, making empty threats to deploy their feeble means if they don't get what they want.
A child holding its breath has more
traction than the EU. Chances are that somebody loves that child.
