Posted on 10/06/2017 1:50:09 PM PDT by Gamecock
In a bizarre outburst Varujan Vosganian, an MP for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), part of Romania’s ruling coalition, said that subsistence farming was denying the country’s budget billions of euros every year.
“Every egg eaten direct from a chicken in a courtyard, instead of being bought in a shop, robs the budget of 0.50 lei,” Mr Vosganian said. “Take two chickens: one belongs to a farm, the other a family home. Eggs produced by the first chicken will go to market, where they will be sold for an average of 1 leu, organic eggs even more. They will contribute to the budget via VAT, profit and income tax, salary tax and social security contributions. What’s more, the salaries of the people who work those farms, and in the markets and supermarkets where the eggs are sold are returned to the economy and generate yet more tax. An egg which goes straight from the chicken into the frying pan doesn’t contribute anything.”
He wasn’t done yet.
“People living in countries where budgetary income accounts for as much as 45 per cent of GDP, such as Denmark and France do not keep chickens in their courtyards and do not make their own jam. The fact that we consume so much of what we produce ourselves – and not just food — costs the budget billions of lei every year.”
Mr Vosganian, who has served as Romania’s minister of the economy no fewer than three times, later said that his comments may have been “too abstract.”
Although the Romanian economy continues to grow (at a year on year rate of 5.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2017), it is currently facing a budgetary crisis caused by big increases in public spending, primarily on pensions and higher salaries for state workers. Spending on salaries alone has risen more than 21 per cent this year.
Romania may now struggle to meet its 2017 budget deficit target of 3 per cent.
And this is how you explain liberalism.
“CHICKENS BLAMED FOR ROMANIAN BUDGET DEFICIT”
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Also blamed by Hillary for her defeat.
All your eggs are belong to us.
This reasoning is used in lots of contexts. “Workforce participation,” for example. Several of my friends and I take care of our own children: not “working” and adding nothing to GDP. If each of us paid the next one over to take care of our children, we’d all be in the “workforce” and all generating taxable income.
Have they been hiring consultants from California ?
Good one!
He’s supposed to serve even the “useless people” - the ones with chicken coops in their back yards- and not just those who provide the state with revenue by their activities.
Guy seems to have forgotten that government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. The purpose of government is not to consume revenue- though all governments quickly forget they are servants of the people and try to become the reason for their own existence, serving themselves only. This is why politicians need to be reminded from time to time of their true status.
Funny things is, they do not even have the economics right. In May, I purchased roughly $20 worth of tomato plants, plus at least that much more in buying potting soil and containers. Despite my care, the season ended early because it was a bad year for leaf blight and too much of our soil is of poor quality and not well-drained.
Since tomatoes from Virginia and points south sell at the supermarket here at a steep discount during harvest season, I estimate my $40 plus investment produced maybe $10 in tomatoes, not counting my time and care. So the libtards should give me a subsidy or a tax refund. Do you think they will?
I love the Chik-fil-A commercial that applies here:
See what a little chicken does for you? . . . chicken, chicken chicken
That is just ridiculous.
lol - and you can say the same for anything you do for yourself. Enjoy knitting? Nope, not allowed, you should have to buy all your clothes. Enjoy growing vegetables? Nope, you should have to buy them all. Etc...
So how you end up focusing on eggs is laughable. Maybe they should concentrate on the corruption, I hear it is out of control in Romania. I’m sure there’s a lot of waste.
Does Romania regret the fall of the USSR?
Thanks to George Bush’s Gonzales v Raich USSC victory, marijuana that you grow in your backyard for your own consumption means you don’t go out and buy it, the loss of your business affecting interstate commerce. That exposes you to the Commerce Clause, hence, federal regulation.
Chickens coming home to roost?
Well, that’s a lot lot LOT much better explanation/excuse for failing to pass a balanced budget——— than any American politician’s ever come up with. It’s all the chickens’ fault! (Even HilLIARy hasn’t managed to blame the chickens yet.....)
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