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.
>>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? <<
You should have registered as a farm. Then, yes, the government would pay you for not growing.
The government micromanagement of farms in the USA are from 2 centuries ago.
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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.
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I suspect, like all control freaks, they focus upon the minority, polarize to progress....the old “They came for, but I wasn’t”.
Next, they’ll be taxing the rain runoff (ala Maryland)...I shouldn’t give ‘em any ideas.
Didn’t they answer that question on Christmas Day, 1989?
Quadruple the tax on chicken feed.
Problem solved.
/-sarc
HA!
It’s Wickard v Filburn all over again.
Maybe Kramerica Industries was onto something, if they could have just gotten that chicken.
So brilliant, so true.
And cooking your own food. Treason! No restaurant to tax -— you’re robbing the gubmint!
Too inefficient. Just tax the mothers directly for the economic value of the childcare they are providing to their children. After all, any good liberal knows that the child belongs to society, and not the parents.
The philosopher that the left follows today said "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." That is what the left in America believes.
Clearly, Romania needs to put a stake in the heart of yet more communist vampires.
The USA is unique in the world in our view that government power is delegated from the people.
Every other country in the world has its people conditioned to believe in the divine right of government to rule their lives from cradle to the grave.
The sad fact of too many Romanians is that they miss the comfort of having someone else make all of their important decisions for them and if Ceaucescu were to rise from the dead they’d happily bare their throats to let the communist vampire suck them dry.
See, some people were born to be slaves.
Now if a government employee went farm to farm breaking half of those eggs, the economy would be great.
Hey, while I think of it, he could break a few windows too.
Any time we do anything for ourselves, instead of paying someone else to do it, we’re depriving the government of a taxable transaction.
Personally, I feel terrible about it.
Monsieur Bastiat ?
You should.
Subversive!
Anarchist!
Hippie!
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