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I promise you the Dubliners speak english well enough for the multinationals.
Heck, they speak better than plenty of English people I know...
An unwarranted and ultimately discriminatory snipe, but ok.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the EU is a bunch of unelected bureaucrats. Of course national law made by a democratically elected government should trump some unelected and possibly very corrupt bureaucrats far away.
The EU treaties that Poland has signed (along with every other member state) assert that EU law has primacy over national law. If Poland’s government doesn’t like that, it should resign its membership like Britain did.
You should be able to cite the relevant passage in the accession treaty that Poland signed to support that assertion.
You can read the treaty here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement_new/treaty/defaul...
Take all the time you need. You'll find lots of specific agreements on wheat subsidies, travel restrictions, etc. But a general claim that EU courts can override Polish courts or EU law to supercede Polish law? It's not there.
If you think it is, please go ahead and cite the passage in the treaty. Otherwise please withdraw the claim.
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#124I've always been baffled as to how this is seen as a multi-national issue. The US could always implement unilateral minimum VAT and profit[3] taxes on corporations forcing them to effectively pay whatever proportion the US demands to continue doing business in the world's largest consumer market. Just because you're only paying 3%[1] profit[3] tax in Bermuda doesn't mean you can necessarily skate around the remaining…
That would violate a bunch of treaties. Also, what would stop other countries (or the EU) from doing the same thing?
I guess those treaties only pertain to corporations, because the US double-taxes individuals just fine.
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#125I have never understood the whole "tax the rich" idea and I am not rich, don't own a house or car or stocks or anything expensive. When and how will the taxes help you and me? The money just ends up going to a black hole for the government to spent inefficiently. And if you are in the US, the money gets spent on funding the military industrial complex for bombing more countries, regime changes, intelligence agencies,…
Here's a short list of things tax money funds: Roads Schools Healthcare (in civilized countries) Making sure companies selling medicine aren't killing people Making sure companies don't dump toxic waste into rivers and lakes Note that comparing Walmart vs the government is especially funny since most of Warlmart's expansion comes from the fact that it under-pays it's workers so much that the federal government has to…
You missed my point.
As for schools:
13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7bvreb/13_baltimore_c...
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...
Just so everyone is aware Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending. This is not because the schools dont get enough money. In fact its just about as far away from that as you can get.
If despite getting the 2nd more funded, your students still can't do high school math, then the problem isn't about money, it's probably about corruption, gangs, fatherlessness, teacher unions and lack of school choice.
This is also not exclusive to Baltimore. Money just disappears from these places.
Everyone I know who works in the government themselves tell me how inefficient the government is and how much waste of money there is. For example, they have built the regulations in such a way that a hammer you may be able to purchase for $10 will cost $50 for the government or military.
Forever feeding it more and more money while they keep spending it without any benefit to people does nothing.
Look at what the US just did. 2 trillion dollars wasted in Afghanistan and then left 83 billion dollars worth of tax payer funded military gear for the Taliban. You want to give them more money?
How exactly is paying more taxes ensuring "companies selling medicine aren't killing people" or "companies don't dump toxic waste into rivers and lakes"?
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#126I have never understood the whole "tax the rich" idea and I am not rich, don't own a house or car or stocks or anything expensive. When and how will the taxes help you and me? The money just ends up going to a black hole for the government to spent inefficiently. And if you are in the US, the money gets spent on funding the military industrial complex for bombing more countries, regime changes, intelligence agencies,…
(I'm not in the US, and agree that that's a disgraceful list.) Inefficient compared to what? What is your proposed alternative? > When and how will the taxes help you and me? Well.. for example, you use roads I assume.
Here's an example:
13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7bvreb/13_baltimore_c...
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...
Just so everyone is aware Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending. This is not because the schools dont get enough money. In fact its just about as far away from that as you can get.
If despite getting the 2nd more funded, your students still can't do high school math, then the problem isn't about money or racism, it's probably about corruption, gangs, fatherlessness, teacher unions and lack of school choice.
Tax payer money literally just disappears.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Governments want to tax profits rather than revenues. A tax on revenues would kill a lot of high growth businesses.
And yet they tax individuals on our revenues and not our profits …
As others mention, if you’re a 1099 contractor (even part time), you have more options to mitigate this (tradeoff being you pay the employer’s portion of social security contribution, and must manage your own finances to withhold enough to pay the next tax bill).
But you’re not wrong to be upset about this. It really doesn’t seem fair. And I’m not sure the government could get away with it so easily if they weren’t able to deputize employers to withhold taxes from your paycheck.
Btw, IMO this is also part of the reason for targeting 1099 status of the gig economy – collection rates are much lower for contractors (who must pay their own taxes, and may not have the funds available to do so) than for employees (who have their taxes withheld from their paycheck so they don’t need to pay tax on their salary).
I’m of the firm belief that the first $100k in individual income should be taxed exactly $0. Taxing unsophisticated, frequently barely profitable contractors – and penalizing them for failure to maintain savings or meet filing deadlines - is counterproductive to a successful economy.
The IRS collects 80% (or more) of its revenue from Americans with more than $100k income. On the other hand, Americans with 1099 status and under $100k income almost certainly feel a greater relative psychological and financial burden of tax compliance than anyone making over $100k.
Many of them need to choose between paying bills or paying the IRS – whereas for higher income earners, tax compliance is much less stressful as there is never any doubt whether they’ll have enough money to both pay their taxes (on time) and survive.
In this sense, the tax system feels disproportionately unfair to a large segment of the population that contributes to a comparatively small percentage of tax revenue.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
The EU treaties that Poland has signed (along with every other member state) assert that EU law has primacy over national law. If Poland’s government doesn’t like that, it should resign its membership like Britain did.
You should be able to cite the relevant passage in the accession treaty that Poland signed to support that assertion. You can read the treaty here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement_new/treaty/defaul... Take all the time you need. You'll find lots of specific agreements on wheat subsidies, travel restrictions, etc. But a general claim that EU courts can override Polish courts or EU law to supercede Polish la…
Poland signed the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007 together with every other member state. That’s the place you should start looking.
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#129Re: Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
The EU treaties that Poland has signed (along with every other member state) assert that EU law has primacy over national law. If Poland’s government doesn’t like that, it should resign its membership like Britain did.
You should be able to cite the relevant passage in the accession treaty that Poland signed to support that assertion. You can read the treaty here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement_new/treaty/defaul... Take all the time you need. You'll find lots of specific agreements on wheat subsidies, travel restrictions, etc. But a general claim that EU courts can override Polish courts or EU law to supercede Polish la…
ARTICLE 1
1. The Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic hereby become members of the European Union and Parties to the Treaties on which the Union is founded as amended or supplemented.
2. The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the Union is founded, entailed by such admission, are set out in the Act annexed to this Treaty. The provisions of that Act shall form an integral part of this Treaty.
3. The provisions concerning the rights and obligations of the Member States and the powers and jurisdiction of the institutions of the Union as set out in the Treaties referred to in paragraph 1 shall apply in respect of this Treaty.
See also: Treaty of Lisbon, which Poland also signed. Specifically, Declaration 17: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
17. Declaration concerning primacy
The Conference recalls that, in accordance with well settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Treaties and the law adopted by the Union on the basis of the Treaties have primacy over the law of Member States, under the conditions laid down by the said case law.
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You may want to also have a look here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...
"According to the precedence principle, European law is superior to the national laws of Member States. The precedence principle applies to all European acts with a binding force. Therefore, Member States may not apply a national rule which contradicts to European law.
The precedence principle guarantees the superiority of European law over national laws. It is a fundamental principle of European law. As with the direct effect principle, it is not inscribed in the Treaties, but has been enshrined by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)."