You seem not to get what I say: 70% (probbaly more) of the population in germany lives on welfare. Welfare of various names. And the other 30% are paying for it.
It does not matter if the US has more than 70% living on welfare, that was not the point.
Sorry, I get the drift of your argument but it is nonsense anyway. E.g. you safe your time to file a tax report or to hire a tax consultant/accountant. What you call a 100% tax (which makes no sense as the people still have money left to live from) others call a 0% tax (because they don't get tax deduced from their wages).
In the end the question is: how to run/govern a society. So that the society and the people can propsper. The american system does not work. The attempts of communism/socialism in east europe failed due to dictators reigning. In other words: they never had a chance to show if it ccould work or not.
The middle ground of west europe semi socialism (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) and north europe more socialistic systems seem to work fine. On the other hand, uprising capitalistic counties that are not polluted by american cronies, like Thailand, Vietnam and China seem to do really good, too. Oh, and two of those examples are considered communist. And none of them has extraordinary taxes. Common people pay like 10%.
They solve the spin up time problem by just running the plants all the time whether power is needed or not, then selling the power they don't need to their neighbors over the grid. That is nonsense. We have no strange spin up times where coal can not handle it. And: coal is down ot 40% of our power mix. And: we still produce 10%-12% of oir power by nuclear.
Negative price power sells usually are huge surplus wind power.
I have to admit, I'm a bit sexist, too. I like girls. They make me much more hot than boys or any make.
And I have to admit, I'm a bit raciest, too! As I prefer coloured girls over white girls, in perhaps a 55 : 45 ratio. And I like small girls over tall girls, but still some tall girls I find exciting.
And I don't like big titts...
Am I bad?
Oh, and I don't like girls that can not dance. Even more, I hate girls my mother would approve. I prefer the ones she does not approve.
Well, humans have 23 chromosome pairs. X/Y is only one of them. It is unlikely that special diving abilities are encoded there and not on others. Even if it was encoded on the X chromosome, only half the female offsprings would inherit it.
My position is not based on ignorance. And your district spending numbers are meaningless. In Europe we have no 'districts'. Relevant is what 'the government' (regardless if district/state/country) spends in total for education. The USA are in the rear end of the developed world. If you consider the USA developed.
Handing out money does not change the value of that money. No idea what you want to say by arguing in such kinds of circles.
The money gets handed out anyway, as welfare. With huge costs, as you have to pay the welfare apparatus. The UBI advocates simply say: it is cheaper to hand out UBI to everyone, and get rid of the welfare apparatus, than only sending money to selected eligible people.
Starting with a communist country, 100% tax rate, And how exactly would that work? Remaining income after I fed my family?
In communist countries, or as close as you got in e.g. socialist east germany, the tax for workers was zero. It was already factored into the wages. Only self employed people, like a few bakeries payed taxes, 90% of all what was left after expenses and "what they would have earned if not self employed".
This is from an anti Nazi Poster from one of the latest elections:
give to a bunch of illegal aliens who steal our jobs! If an illegal alien, who does not speak your language, who does not have your education, who has no friends in your country, who has no family in your country, who came with plastic bags under his arms holding his sole possessions... is _stealing_ your job, your wife/GF
Now, arguably, UBI really should come with government-run healthcare like the Europeans use. Health care in Europe is not government run, it is hevay regulated, yes.
In Scandinavia, it is government run... of course you can argue that it is a part of Europe.
Indeed, it is encouraging people not to work. Unemployed do not work, we have plenty of them in germany, probably 5% of the population considerd being able to work. Then we have those considered not being able to work, e.g. simply being unemployed for 5 years or longer. Then we have the kids going to school (yes, they would get UBI, too!) they are not working either. Then we have people to old and on pension.
Bottom line less than 30% of the population is working, the rest is on UBI, which is not called UBI but welfare or pension or unemployment insurrance, or as we say here HARTZ IV.
What do you think how much money the society would save if we just got rid of the biggest employer in Germany? The Bundesargentur fuer Arbeit, the guys who decide who gets unemployment aid, or welfare or gets 'promoted' to 'early earned pension'?
Combine that with a tax reform and get rid of tax consultants...
In my not the humble opinion: UBI haters are just dumb asses.
and spend more on education than any other country per capita. Students: yes. Absurd univeristy fees. At a state: no. Even China spents more money to educate low graders than the US does. And that with a currency/value difference of 1 : 3.
Well, a square mile in a city is a big area. If it only has 4 grocery stores that would be indeed 'desert like'. Luckily I mostly live in Germany and Paris, and about 2 month per year in Thailand. Food is considered important there:)
75 years ago americans were heroes freeing the world. Protecting us for free, ha ha ha.
Everybody is paying the price for the american behaviour on the planet. Increased terrorism in peaceful europe. Global warming. Destruction of cultures, because you think you have a god given right to put your fast food companies everywhere.
Sorry, you might feel insulted, single americans are always nice, after all only the nice ones leave their country. As a nation you are a menace to the planet and mankind.
Slowly South America and Asia is recovering from americas suppression, but still you still/again have trade embargoes on countries like Cuba and Venezuela. For fuck sake! Why? Why can't you leave the people there alone and let them solve their problems with their own means? Do you really think Cuba will invade Florida for better beach property? Or Venezuela will attack Texas?
EU law most of the time is only valid in the EU. Every human being is under jurisdiction of the laws at the place he/she resides.
Unless it is an US law, ofc. which claim to be valid world wide.
AND: unless there are special laws e.g. like some EU or Scandinavian countries have against child abuse or child/minor prostitution where you can get prosecuted in your home country if you committed a crime in a foreign country (by definition of your home country).
Anyway, the EU does not claim their laws are valid all over the world, that would be nonsense and not enforceable anyway.
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Imagine you use something like a mouse to remote control a satellite that you are interfacing with with something like RDP ... oh the jitter!
I never make up nonsense.
Do you?
You seem not to get what I say: 70% (probbaly more) of the population in germany lives on welfare. Welfare of various names.
And the other 30% are paying for it.
It does not matter if the US has more than 70% living on welfare, that was not the point.
Sorry,
I get the drift of your argument but it is nonsense anyway.
E.g. you safe your time to file a tax report or to hire a tax consultant/accountant.
What you call a 100% tax (which makes no sense as the people still have money left to live from) others call a 0% tax (because they don't get tax deduced from their wages).
In the end the question is: how to run/govern a society. So that the society and the people can propsper. The american system does not work. The attempts of communism/socialism in east europe failed due to dictators reigning. In other words: they never had a chance to show if it ccould work or not.
The middle ground of west europe semi socialism (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) and north europe more socialistic systems seem to work fine.
On the other hand, uprising capitalistic counties that are not polluted by american cronies, like Thailand, Vietnam and China seem to do really good, too. Oh, and two of those examples are considered communist. And none of them has extraordinary taxes. Common people pay like 10%.
They solve the spin up time problem by just running the plants all the time whether power is needed or not, then selling the power they don't need to their neighbors over the grid.
That is nonsense. We have no strange spin up times where coal can not handle it.
And: coal is down ot 40% of our power mix.
And: we still produce 10%-12% of oir power by nuclear.
Negative price power sells usually are huge surplus wind power.
Get a damn clue and stop spreading FUD.
If a person is called Ngy Jim it is obviously not white, or Nakamura Hieroshi or Mbaku Nmabola.
I have to admit, I'm a bit sexist, too.
I like girls. They make me much more hot than boys or any make.
And I have to admit, I'm a bit raciest, too! As I prefer coloured girls over white girls, in perhaps a 55 : 45 ratio.
And I like small girls over tall girls, but still some tall girls I find exciting.
And I don't like big titts ...
Am I bad?
Oh, and I don't like girls that can not dance. Even more, I hate girls my mother would approve. I prefer the ones she does not approve.
Am I bad?
Well, humans have 23 chromosome pairs.
X/Y is only one of them. It is unlikely that special diving abilities are encoded there and not on others.
Even if it was encoded on the X chromosome, only half the female offsprings would inherit it.
And how would that work?
Or did you somehow mistype?
Obviously it is valid for every european company.
Does not matter if it does business with non eu companies or not.
If I have an account on a web site in 'Oceania' ... EU laws don't apply. We are not idiots.
My position is not based on ignorance.
And your district spending numbers are meaningless. In Europe we have no 'districts'.
Relevant is what 'the government' (regardless if district/state/country) spends in total for education.
The USA are in the rear end of the developed world. If you consider the USA developed.
Handing out money does not change the value of that money.
No idea what you want to say by arguing in such kinds of circles.
The money gets handed out anyway, as welfare. With huge costs, as you have to pay the welfare apparatus.
The UBI advocates simply say: it is cheaper to hand out UBI to everyone, and get rid of the welfare apparatus, than only sending money to selected eligible people.
Starting with a communist country, 100% tax rate,
And how exactly would that work?
Remaining income after I fed my family?
In communist countries, or as close as you got in e.g. socialist east germany, the tax for workers was zero. It was already factored into the wages. Only self employed people, like a few bakeries payed taxes, 90% of all what was left after expenses and "what they would have earned if not self employed".
This is from an anti Nazi Poster from one of the latest elections:
give to a bunch of illegal aliens who steal our jobs! ... is _stealing_ your job, your wife/GF
If an illegal alien, who does not speak your language,
who does not have your education, who has no friends
in your country, who has no family in your country,
who came with plastic bags under his arms holding his
sole possessions
Then it probably is because you simply suck.
Now, arguably, UBI really should come with government-run healthcare like the Europeans use.
Health care in Europe is not government run, it is hevay regulated, yes.
In Scandinavia, it is government run ... of course you can argue that it is a part of Europe.
Indeed, it is encouraging people not to work.
Unemployed do not work, we have plenty of them in germany, probably 5% of the population considerd being able to work.
Then we have those considered not being able to work, e.g. simply being unemployed for 5 years or longer.
Then we have the kids going to school (yes, they would get UBI, too!) they are not working either.
Then we have people to old and on pension.
Bottom line less than 30% of the population is working, the rest is on UBI, which is not called UBI but welfare or pension or unemployment insurrance, or as we say here HARTZ IV.
What do you think how much money the society would save if we just got rid of the biggest employer in Germany? The Bundesargentur fuer Arbeit, the guys who decide who gets unemployment aid, or welfare or gets 'promoted' to 'early earned pension'?
Combine that with a tax reform and get rid of tax consultants ...
In my not the humble opinion: UBI haters are just dumb asses.
and spend more on education than any other country per capita.
Students: yes. Absurd univeristy fees.
At a state: no. Even China spents more money to educate low graders than the US does. And that with a currency/value difference of 1 : 3.
A currency connected to a blockchain does not need to be a cryptocurrency. A plain dollar would do it.
UBI is the fastest way to destroy the middle class I can think of.
How so? The money you would get from UBI is far lower than a middle class wage.
No. Communism is public ownership of all assets. If there are still private assets it is not Communism.
Thats nonsense.
You are mixing up communism with hypotheticsl 'Ur-communism'.
Well, :)
a square mile in a city is a big area. If it only has 4 grocery stores that would be indeed 'desert like'.
Luckily I mostly live in Germany and Paris, and about 2 month per year in Thailand.
Food is considered important there
75 years ago americans were heroes freeing the world.
Protecting us for free, ha ha ha.
Everybody is paying the price for the american behaviour on the planet. Increased terrorism in peaceful europe. Global warming. Destruction of cultures, because you think you have a god given right to put your fast food companies everywhere.
Sorry, you might feel insulted, single americans are always nice, after all only the nice ones leave their country. As a nation you are a menace to the planet and mankind.
Slowly South America and Asia is recovering from americas suppression, but still you still/again have trade embargoes on countries like Cuba and Venezuela. For fuck sake! Why? Why can't you leave the people there alone and let them solve their problems with their own means? Do you really think Cuba will invade Florida for better beach property? Or Venezuela will attack Texas?
At atmosphere pressure pure oxygen is deadly, you should not have deleted the rest of my sentence.
The GDPR is only relevant in the EU for citizens, residents and companies doing business in the EU.
You can disable to be tagged in images since ... since ever more or less.
EU law most of the time is only valid in the EU.
Every human being is under jurisdiction of the laws at the place he/she resides.
Unless it is an US law, ofc. which claim to be valid world wide.
AND: unless there are special laws e.g. like some EU or Scandinavian countries have against child abuse or child/minor prostitution where you can get prosecuted in your home country if you committed a crime in a foreign country (by definition of your home country).
Anyway, the EU does not claim their laws are valid all over the world, that would be nonsense and not enforceable anyway.