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Originally Posted by Habsfan09
The problem with their ideas is that you need a working tax system for that to work. You cant just give money to the people and not getting it from somewhere. Especially Greece has/had a huge problem with collecting taxes and having a very generous state apparatus. Italy has similar problems as well. In Germany the anti-EU party was founded because they opposed that we might have to bail Greece out in case they cant pay their debts. Its similar in Italy as well. Its not that we dont like a more left leaning program its just that the rest of the EU doesnt want to be the bailsmen if it goes wrong. Its just not popular to say first we start to collect all the taxes the state is owed and then we redistribute it.
The rest of the EU should have no business imposing on the Greeks and Italians the idea that they are not allowed to try some socialist experiment. Nobody has the expertise or right to do that from abroad.
Of course it follows that they shouldn't have any sort of federal links across the states either. Greece and Italy have no rights to impose costs on the rest of the EU for daft socialist experiments.
28 different daft experiments has a chance of accidentally producing some winners, and then everybody is in a better position. 1 shared daft experiment is a crazy leap into the dark.