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It still doesn't work as all those social programs are unsustainable from fiscal viewpoint. It's all financed by debt and inflation.
Not true. In fact, those programs are only barely more expensive than "podatek liniowy", which got introduced decades ago and which is essentially a subsidy for the wealthy for being wealthy.
Please check who is Mr. Giertych - and he is not a hero attorney fighting for the good of the people, he was involved in a rather unclear businesses, which are now investigated by the prosecution. Giertych got a lot of publicity when he managed to skillfully avoid interrogation - when Police arrived to transport him he was faking sickness.
To make things funnier, Giertych was a member of the far right wing of the currently ruling party (Law and Order), he was even a ministry of education at some point.
Right now he pretends to be persecuted by the government just in case he will be sentenced.
Ewa Wrzosek, on the other hand, is known from exactly one case: she started investigation to check if presidential election was "safe for the society" (because of covid, obviously). The crux here is that due to the deficiencies that Polish constitution has it didn't anticipated situation in which the election cannot happen, so there were no possible legal solution to avoid the election without destabilizing political system.
So, from the beginning, it was clear that Ms. Wrzosek action was a purely political demonstration (she was a well known critic of the government). Later she admitted that "probably everything was ok" , and "eventually investigation would have been cancelled, but why not double check" [1]...
Regardless if someone likes or not current Polish authorities (I am definitely not) the attempt to undermine the election and destabilize country by some prosecutor does not sound well.
[1] https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/ewa-wrzosek-kim-jest...
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Not true. In fact, those programs are only barely more expensive than "podatek liniowy", which got introduced decades ago and which is essentially a subsidy for the wealthy for being wealthy.
Care to explain the reason behind currently skyrocketing inflation and PLN devaluation then?
Israel banned Poland from using NSO spyware after this: https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,27895266,israel-bans-polish-int... "On November 25, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli government has banned the sales of Pegasus to autocratic regimes, as well as to the governments of Poland and Hungary. The list of countries to which Israeli surveillance companies can sell their spyware has been reduced from 102 to 37.…
>Times of Israel reported that the Israeli government has banned the sales of Pegasus to autocratic regimes, as well as to the governments of Poland and Hungary This may sound a little paranoid but I always treat declarations like this with a grain of salt.
Israel banned Poland from using NSO spyware after this: https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,27895266,israel-bans-polish-int... "On November 25, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli government has banned the sales of Pegasus to autocratic regimes, as well as to the governments of Poland and Hungary. The list of countries to which Israeli surveillance companies can sell their spyware has been reduced from 102 to 37.…
(Eavesdropping advocate is illegal under Polish law.)
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Not true. In fact, those programs are only barely more expensive than "podatek liniowy", which got introduced decades ago and which is essentially a subsidy for the wealthy for being wealthy.
Care to explain the reason behind currently skyrocketing inflation and PLN devaluation then?
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It will take an enormous amount of effort and money to fix everything they brought down. But I believe in Poles - they rebuilt their capital from ruins after WW2, they made an enormous progress after they became a democracy, so no doubt they will also manage to fix everything the populists are destroying right now. But as you say - it's a pity Polish people lost a few years and lots of opportunities.
Destroying is a bit of an overstatement. Unfortunately we live in a political climate, not only in Poland, that whenever left-wing candidates lose an election, it's populism and backsliding on democracy. But if the candidate that was supposed to win, wins, companies are all foreign owned and NGOs control all spheres of life, then it's freedom and democracy.
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I have no hope anymore. It won't get better. If people want 500 zł monthly and are willing to sell themselves and the country for that - let them...
That's nice in theory but when you are personally dragged down right along with them then that it becomes a very practical problem.
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>Times of Israel reported that the Israeli government has banned the sales of Pegasus to autocratic regimes, as well as to the governments of Poland and Hungary This may sound a little paranoid but I always treat declarations like this with a grain of salt.
It's not. As if it was beyond the Israelean government itself to resort to such tactics ... In fact, I know only very few governments where I would be willing to swear on my life that they would never use such tactics.
What are they?