I am not seeing a symbol for Polonium there
Poland has Germanium (or Niobium, you are right) and Gallium, France has Germanium, and Germany has Indium.
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I am not seeing a symbol for Polonium there
Poland has Germanium (or Niobium, you are right) and Gallium, France has Germanium, and Germany has Indium.
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Yeah, nobody has Polonium, probably because it's not stable, and might have to be created in a lab. If you ask me we should just make some and bury it in Poland
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Polonium can into Poland?
The truth of that statement depends on how you define "exist" and "nature". Trace amounts of plutonium from natural processes can be found on earth, it is just not very much. And who knows which elements exist (very briefly) in supernovas?
So you do not necessarily need to synthesize those elements (is probably still much cheaper than trying to filter them).
How does the Republic of Ireland (IRL) manage to have such a low tax rate, while having a national health service and apparently a european style welfare state?
I'm guessing crime, poverty, and military spending are low. Those make up a sizable part of a government's budget.
I am not sure that quite adds up. In milatry spending they are very much in the bottom of the scale, at 0.4% of GDP, but that is only about 1% of the illustrated different. They seem pretty much in the middle on crime and poverty, so that does not make up the difference.
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They have low tax rates to attract a lot of foreign investment. It was recently in the news where the EU was trying to change some of ireland's tax laws, wanted to fine apple etc. I don't remember specifics.
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Yeah they have a super low tax in order to attract American and EU businesses to set up their 'headquarters' there to take advantage of the low tax. They manage to attract a ton of large multinational firms that use it as a tax haven and that brings in a lot of revenue for them despite the low rate. Civver is right, they are in hot water over this practice.
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Their business taxes are super low to attract companies to set up shop there. But they are also a part of the EU, which means funding for the things you mention.
I think that's what explains it anyway, but don't take it as gospel
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We made a decision many years ago to trade off low corporate income tax rates for employment and it has been very successful.
Foreign multinationals were attracted by the low rates and in turn created lots of jobs.
Public services are paid for by higher taxes on workers - I pay about 50% of any extra euro I earn in tax.
The other thing that outsiders wouldn't particularly notice is that we have a young and growing population so pension spending etc isn't as big a problem for us as others.
The EU have tried and failed to target our tax regime many times. Tax is still a national competence.
The EU are actually responsible for the current low tax rate ironically. There used to be two tax rates for companies - a standard one for local business and a lower one for exporters. The EEC said the different rates was unfair and thought we would eliminate the low rate. Our response instead was to move to a single low rate of tax for all companies.
The combination of the low tax and multinational jobs became a virtuous circle moving Ireland from being a rural backwater with no industry to a high tech exporting country.
As an example where I am from manufactures half of the world's stents and is a centre for their research and development. This industry or technology didn't exist thirty years ago.
There is no gift - we created our own advantage. Our tax policy is older than the treaty of Rome.
Export sales relief was introduced in the fifties - this had to be removed as it was deemed unfair by the EEC.
It was replaced with the low manufacturing rate in 1980 - this had to be removed as it was deemed unfair by the EEC.
Our current low tax rate was introduced in the nineties and has been criticised by many but is pretty solidly based and backed up by a veto.
Many tried to kick us when our economy was down - trying to make corporate tax change a condition of the bailout. France/Sarkozy in particular.
The current approach to attack it is the common consolidated tax base - trying to create a framework on allocating where profits are earned. It could backfire if given the amount of work, value added, investment and r&d done here the profits are still judged to be earned here.
I do also think that the EU is both pro-actively enabling as allowing the catch up of more underdeveloped/rural areas/countries, not only by the visible net funding. But it is not "correct" to speak loud about it.
At the moment for example Poland was freed, they had their own active policies to make use of their very low labor cost, by exporting labor (by plumbers), by encouraging foreign investments to be part of the European suply chain with low labor cost, by lowering their currency strongly during the financial crisis, to stay attractive and prevent that Germany would source back too much to the homeland (Italy and other euro countries used as overflow capacity for the German industry suffered much harder).
etc, etc.
A strong federalist thinker like Verhofstadt, is realistic enough, that he cannot really start with more domestic federalism, before the EU members have reached a high enough level of competitiveness. A high enough base level by all.
At the moment for example Poland was freed, they had their own active policies to make use of their very low labor cost, by exporting labor (by plumbers), by encouraging foreign investments to be part of the European suply chain with low labor cost, by lowering their currency strongly during the financial crisis, to stay attractive and prevent that Germany would source back too much to the homeland (Italy and other euro countries used as overflow capacity for the German industry suffered much harder).
etc, etc.
A strong federalist thinker like Verhofstadt, is realistic enough, that he cannot really start with more domestic federalism, before the EU members have reached a high enough level of competitiveness. A high enough base level by all.
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