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CHICKENS BLAMED FOR ROMANIAN BUDGET DEFICIT
http://emerging-europe.com/regions/romania/chickens-blamed-romanian-budget-deficit/ ^ | 10/5/2017 | Craig Turp

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.


TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: corruptgovernment
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1 posted on 10/06/2017 1:50:09 PM PDT by Gamecock
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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.

And this is how you explain liberalism.

2 posted on 10/06/2017 1:50:55 PM PDT by Gamecock ("We always choose according to our greatest inclination at the moment." R.C. Sproul)
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To: Gamecock

“CHICKENS BLAMED FOR ROMANIAN BUDGET DEFICIT”

Also blamed by Hillary for her defeat.


3 posted on 10/06/2017 1:52:43 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Gamecock

All your eggs are belong to us.


4 posted on 10/06/2017 1:53:38 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Gamecock

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.


5 posted on 10/06/2017 1:54:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The tears of a clown outweigh the sobriety of facts." ~Michelle Malkin)
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To: Gamecock
it is currently facing a budgetary crisis caused by big increases in public spending, primarily on pensions and higher salaries for state workers.

Have they been hiring consultants from California ?

6 posted on 10/06/2017 1:54:29 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: LouieFisk

Good one!


7 posted on 10/06/2017 1:54:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The tears of a clown outweigh the sobriety of facts." ~Michelle Malkin)
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8 posted on 10/06/2017 1:54:47 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Gamecock

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.


9 posted on 10/06/2017 1:58:39 PM PDT by piasa (...)
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To: Gamecock
His comments weren't too abstract. They were a spot on glimpse of just how the left thinks. It is not just a coincidence that Stalin and Mao targeted millions of farmers for liquidation.

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?

10 posted on 10/06/2017 2:00:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Gamecock

I love the Chik-fil-A commercial that applies here:

See what a little chicken does for you? . . . chicken, chicken chicken


11 posted on 10/06/2017 2:00:24 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: Gamecock

That is just ridiculous.


12 posted on 10/06/2017 2:04:27 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Gamecock

13 posted on 10/06/2017 2:07:47 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Gamecock

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.


14 posted on 10/06/2017 2:08:19 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Gamecock

Does Romania regret the fall of the USSR?


15 posted on 10/06/2017 2:14:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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16 posted on 10/06/2017 2:16:33 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: fuzzylogic

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.


17 posted on 10/06/2017 2:20:43 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Gamecock

Chickens coming home to roost?


18 posted on 10/06/2017 2:33:56 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Gamecock


19 posted on 10/06/2017 2:36:02 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Gamecock

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.....)


20 posted on 10/06/2017 2:53:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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