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fusilier50Posted by: fusilier50 on October 20, 2010 11:04 AM
we pay insane amounts of our taxes to europe.
2005 – £12.5 billion
2006 – £12.4 billion
2007 – £12.5 billion
2008 – £13.7 billion (estimated)
the rebate we used to get got us the following back.
2005 – £3.6 billion
2006 – £3.9 billion
2007 – £4.6 billion
2008 – £3.6 billion (estimate)
is it just me that sees how we can resolve our problems in one easy step?
its time for our politicians to justify why we are still in this federation at all when we get so little back.
Originally posted by Catch_a_Fire
I think this just proves that the UK has fingers in more pies than we realise. As for where the money comes from.......well we probably pay more tax than any other country in the world, it has to go somewhere.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
reply to post by franspeakfree
We do actually get a bit back from being in Europe, we just dont hear about it. Liverpool has been totally regenerated thanks to EU money and other cities have also received funding from the EU.
www.esf.gov.uk...
www.culturefund.eu...
Retirement at age 58? That's the rule in France? Hmmmm.....
[Sep 13, 2010] I note with interest, as I watch t.v. coverage of the riots in the streets of France, where people are complaining that the retirement age of 58 will have to be raised ... ~ by Li Read ( 12 comments )
activerain.com/blogsview/1854776/retirement-at-age-58...
Originally posted by St Udio
then there's the other 'Austerity measures' being implemented all across the EU community,
there's just not enough money coming into the government vaults through taxes and VAT
to support the extremely liberal & expensive government pay-outs , right or wrong....
theres also the fact that the banks are all in-the-red because of the trash paper that the corrupt
firms in America sold them... they have to 'recapitalize' the debt one way or another...
taking productive money out of the system results in a growing 'Debt' situation...
and the central banks create new money that automatically has debt strings-attached
just to float the system until a recovery can take place=== if ever
Originally posted by JohnySeagull
Yes, thats right. Ireland nearest neighbour did the good neighbour deed and bought up a load of Irish debt. It did this through its newly aquired bank, RBS.
Originally posted by JohnySeagull
reply to post by franspeakfree
Of course not. I am just giving an example of how ridiculous things are getting.
The Irish ecomony is in tattters. England believes the Irish government when they told them that the country will bounce back and ithen the UK is stupid enough to invest in Irish Debt.
Originally posted by cushycrux
It's the system. This is how it works. It's not only Europe. Think about it 1000000 of people working ever day, creating things, selling things and every day, every fu**** country on this planet has more dept. Some very rich private persons get richer and more powerful every day until the slaves stand up.
Originally posted by Phantom traveller
Well in Greece we have a huge debt,but we know where the money goes:
In the pockets of the politicians and their minions.They give stupid funds every year(like 1500€ in every member of the parliament(300) for new computers and other hardware,when they had changed it a couple of years back AGAIN or 200.000€ for curtains in the ministry of education) when there are people that don't have the basics.
They reduced the salary of civil servants and the pensions but they didn't cut a cent from their own salary.