… are done by something that cannot think rationally anymore, by something that is just doing actions for the sake of doing it. Well, our government is desperate right now. Among the several intentions of getting more money into the state treasury they had the idea of increasing taxes and the VAT, because of the push of the IMF.
Well in the end they chose the lesser evil by trying to eliminate all unnecessary personnel from state owned institutes. Economically speaking: great move, less output for the same results. I was really starting to feel something is going to change… well of course the bad news are coming after: there might be some additional measures taken if the first actions do not have any effect… How can one announce plan B, if plan A is not yet in execution? Is plan A that bad? It is good to have a plan B, but why was it announced? No… Plan A is not intended to work. Simple. So what is in Plan B? I’ll present just a few nice ideas:
Introduce taxes for bank deposit interests – I did not really have bank deposits, from now on I will surely not have one. With interests for deposits dropping at a staggering rate, I really do not know how deposits will increase. Since deposits make up a quite large part of the money that banks use, then this is surely going to be beneficial for the banks, which are always the engines of the economy in any country.
Introduce taxes for food tickets: Then what is the point having them? Screw all the companies who are living out of this, we do not need them anymore: again a bunch of people jobless… nice…
Introduce taxes for programmers: One of the leading industries in Romania was the cheap and good quality software development. Well, it might not be cheap anymore… or if it still will be cheap, then the programmers are going to get it, their salary will drop. At this point I have to note, that many of the programmers in our country started off as black market workers: it is not going to be hard to get back. Now the state gets some money off programmers through the companies themselves, from now on that might be lost too…. again, nice move.
All these among the considerable reduction of pensions and salaries in state owned institutes is really going to be a huge boost for the people who will have to cope with the ever increasing prices. We are on top of a nice slope towards future Hoovervilles.
I know that for some countries these measures might seem obvious: in Germany for example there are much higher taxes. But then again Germans are not Romanians. We are different people. Laws should not be copied from other countries. For once it would be nice if laws would be introduced to suit our needs and would be adapted for us. After all, a country is not a country due to it’s government: a country is made up of the people who live in it, the real recovery can only come from them and this is NOT HELPING…
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