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They expect to make €850 million in exchange for tariffs from the US which will hurt the already battered primary and secondary sectors. A flawless plan.
by qxnqd 7y ago
They expect to make €850 million in exchange for tariffs from the US which will hurt the already battered primary and secondary sectors. A flawless plan.
- romanovcode 7y agoIt's not about the money - it's about sending the message. No pun intended.
- qxnqd 7y agoYes, I know. They are socialists so they don't care if blue collar workers suffer just so they can "send a message". They also raised the minimum wage and admitted it hurt the poorest but they still considered it a success: https://www.elmundo.es/economia/macroeconomia/2019/12/03/5de63c62fc6c83bd028b4654.html https://www.elmundo.es/economia/macroeconomia/2019/12/03/5de... — the wonders of the left.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoYes, I know. They are socialists so they don't care if blue collar workers suffer just so they can "send a message". The Conservatives in the UK are planning a similar tax, they are certainly not a socialist party.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt is nationalism in that case or more specifically "tax somebody else who can't vote against" always being a popular plan among voters.
- nicoburns 7y agoIs "tax a company who is making vast amounts of money by operating in our country the same rates that we other businesses doing the same" really a controversial policy position?
- vixen99 7y agoA fair number of Conservatives would take issue with that statement! And they have a damn good case.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoThat they aren't socialists or are planning the tax?
- kobbe 7y agoYou can always follow USA where minimum wage is not enough to live :) - the wonders of the right.
- Ballas 7y agoThe USA minimum wage is definitely enough to live on, and comfortably. (Just not in the USA)
- pc86 7y agoLots of minimum wage remote work in the US?
- systemtest 7y agoI would suggest following the Scandinavian model of not having a minimum wage at all.
- Drakar1903 7y agoWhich works because of strong position of unions. The minimum wage issue can't be simplified to "no minimum wage and yet they thrive"
- saiya-jin 7y agoSo what do you propose? This is an honest question. Those companies act in strictly amoral fashion (even within the law of a given country, breaking laws of others). They basically steal public money by not contributing taxes, so that general population (=we) has to pay up the rest via increased taxation, or public welfare, education, medicine, research, social system etc. suffers because of lack of funds. Increasing net worth at all costs of types like Bezos, Zuckenberg or Brin at the cost of everybody else is not in interest of humankind in any imaginable way.
- pvaldes 7y ago> They are socialists so they don't care if blue collar workers suffer Elmundo newspaper is a liberal oriented newspaper and they have their audience. Trying to milk the maximum level of outrage about anything done by evil socialists is expected for they. Thus, take in mind that the real situation could be (and probably will be) a little less melodramatic. Some of their journalists and their director have been fined for spreading difamatory, partial or even faked news in the past.