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> You're complaining that DE tax funds go to the EU? Very curious what you're talking about and your rational. Germany is the biggest net contributor to the EU
by miroljub 9mo ago
> You're complaining that DE tax funds go to the EU? Very curious what you're talking about and your rational.
Germany is the biggest net contributor to the EU. The money comes from German taxpayers, who receive disproportionately little value in return.
- jorge-d 9mo agoThis is wrong on so many levels. The German economy profits _a lot_ from the membership. You can't just look at the monetary in/out flows to/from EU accounts but to the system as a whole.
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- harperlee 9mo agoFor example, decades of pegging the value of the currency down, thus facilitating exports on a massive scale and thus pushing up the performance of whole industries, without other member states that would have had their currency devaluated being able to compete on prize.
- pegasus 9mo agoThey probably didn't list any because estimating the upsides versus the downsides is what it's about, and that's very hard to quantify. Suggesting, like you seem to, that there are no upsides to the German economy whatsoever, is just not a serious argument so doesn't actually deserve a serious answer.
- LunaSea 9mo agoTariffs on Chinese EV cars that would obliterate the German automotive industry and economy?
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- pegasus 9mo agoThat sounds an awful lot like the Trump whining about being taking advantage of while bullying countries around the world to do his bidding.
- cael450 9mo agoThis is the same argument Trump is using to blow up America's position in NATO.