” Oh, and you can’t go to college at all unless you pass a qualifying exam.”
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Actually I support this. It’s a waste of money sending stupid people to college. The only thing it accomplishes is to keep these people out of the workforce that much longer so the unemployment rate appears lower.
VAT taxes are evil
Hungary is under attack by the woke green pervo EU+ (plus the DC globalists). It seems Trump and the current Hungarian leadership are the only hope to prevent their perverted end game.
Fidesz MEP Refutes Criticism of Hungary’s Child Protection Act
https://hungarytoday.hu/fidesz-mep-refutes-criticism-of-hungarys-child-protection-act/
Sounds like Socialism 101.
Canada has a vat also, it was 17% 30 years ago, don’t know now. The waiting period for major surgeries was well over a year. Many Canadians just crossed over the boarder to the US and had surgeries.
Although i do not support a VAT, at least they are spending the money on their own people instead of on “refugees” and “immigrants” like in America.
The qualifying exam for college is a good idea. College may be “free” but they require you to be qualified before you can get in. And the exams are no joke.
This system would never have a chance in the USA, which is so ashamed of itself that it is eliminating exams and requirements and basing rewards on skin shade and/or sexual preferences.
Free almost always mean “paid for by others”
In countries with a high degree of social homogeneity, and a high level of social responsibility, like Switzerland or Hungary, socialism works a lot better than in the United States where social differences are enormous and no genuine sense of community is achievable.
I saw a video recently of someone walking around Budapest at 2:00 a.m. They felt perfectly safe doing so. The subway stations were pristine clean, no graffiti, no trash, no noise, no homeless. Ladies sitting and waiting for the subway at 2:00 a.m. Where in the US would you dare do that?
Systems like Hungary’s only work, to the extent they work, in certain types of societies. It would never work here.
I don't think that many Americans praising Europe's "free" university system realize that only about 5% of the population passes those exams. When I lived in Germany, only about 50% of the graduating classes from Gymnasia passed their Abitur college entrance exam.
In fact the cut starts earlier at around 14 or 15, where you take a big exam exiting primary school. Fail to score high enough and it's off to trade school for you.
And there's no second chance: you don't get to sign up for the Abitur later on because you've changed your mind, although I think the Gymnasia grads are allowed three attempts. That's new, I believe. My landlady said her exams were spread over three days, during which she would complete a section and go to the restroom to vomit from the stress. For three days.
In a previous life I spent almost a year living and working in Hungary. My wife and I returned to visit last year. People are friendly (it’s not overrun with migrants like other parts of the EU) the food/wine are amazing, and the countryside is beautiful.
A place where you can go out for a Subway sandwich at 3am and not be beaten by two Nigerian MAGA supporters...
Cheers!