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How Europe Will Pay For The Refugee Crisis: Higher Taxes For The Rich
Europe's handling of its refugee crisis has led to much criticism and left even more to be desired, but until now Europe's general population was largely on the side of the misplaced migrants who are trying to reestablish their lives away from the daily horrors of the middle east, all in the name of a Qatari gas pipeline.
Just today, the Globe and Mail reported that French public opinion has swung dramatically to majority support for an intake of more migrants from war zones like Syria, a new poll showed as the country welcomed further busloads of asylum seekers on Thursday.
The Elabe polling agency said support had risen to 53 per cent from 44 per cent only a week ago when it ran the same poll, suggesting that people changed tune after seeing harrowing images of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi and the warm welcome that Germany has extended to droves of asylum-seekers arriving there.
President Francois Hollande, plagued by other polls showing he would be knocked out of the next election by anti-immigrant National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, has promised France will welcome 24,000 migrants as part of a broader plan to take 160,000 into the 28-country European Union.
“The pictures of Aylan Kurdi triggered a new awareness by giving this horrific situation a face, that of a small child,” Elabe head Bernard Sananes said.
“There’s also the guilty consicence. The images coming from Germany have undoubtedly surprised and shaken up French mindsets.”
Well, all that may soon change as Europe realizes the influx of tens of thousands of refugees will result in a dramatic surge in public costs, costs which have to be footed by someone. That someone will be the general population (with the wealthy targeted at first) courtesy of even higher taxes. And since it is usually the wealthy who can afford various tax shelters and tax-avoidance mechanisms, ultimately the cost will be borne by the general population.
According to Reuters, Finland's government on Thursday proposed increasing capital gains tax and income tax on high earners to help pay for a 10-fold increase in refugees expected to arrive this year, its finance minister said.
According to Reuters, the refugee crisis is putting a political strain on Finland, whose foreign minister, Timo Soini, heads the Eurosceptic party, The Finns, which campaigned for tighter controls on immigration and which is now facing a "political as well as a financial challenge."
Finance Minister Alexander Stubb said the highest bracket of capital gains tax would be raised by 1 percentage point while people earning more than 72,300 euros ($81,000) would be required to pay a so-called solidarity tax for two years, lowering the threshold from 90,000 euros.
Solidarity tax... where have we heard this recently? Oh yes, Greece, ground zero of Europe's real humanitarian crisis, with or without refugees, which however will take any distraction to be swept deep under if the rug, if only for a few more months.
So back to the upcoming tax hikes: "These will help to cover higher immigration costs which we estimate to be about 114 million euros this year," Stubb told a news conference.
The centre-right coalition, which took office in May, is struggling to cut government spending quickly in a shrinking economy where unemployment is on the rise.
Finland last week doubled its estimate for the number of asylum seekers expected this year to up to 30,000, compared with just 3,600 last year.
Finland's rich first, soon everywhere else; and since the rich control the media, we expect a broad popular assault seeking to demonize the (mostly) Syrian refugees in coming months. We can only hope it does not lead to another massive wave of scapegoating xenophobia, one which may have tragic results. After all, it's not like this would be the first time Europe has had a comparable experience...
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$81k a year is not rich.
In any major city in Europe, that is solid middle class.
Eurostan is going to pay a much higher price than taxes.
I suspect the dirty Muzzie hoards are going to destroy what little individual national culture remains of each country.
Somehow Muzzies sipping coffee at a cafe on one of the outer canals of Amsterdam does not seem, err... wait a min.... nevermind.
If history repeats, the people of Europe will find cheaper ways to "take care of" this challenge. On the other hand this may be the end of European History that we have been watching. Take a look at western european birthrates.
It's not only birthrates..but the frequency of births...aka how young couples are when they have children. Poor countries appear to marry and have kids at much younger ages from my own observations.
After finishing this I had to scroll back up to the top and make sure this wasn't a guest post, so it is in fact TD comparing those who don't want their homes flooded with a bunch of Mid East and NA welfare seekers to the nazis? Did I read that wrong?
"Higher Taxes For The Rich"
Worked for France (75% tax rate) as "the rich" left for other countries.
Oh, wait...
"Just today, the Globe and Mail reported that French public opinion has swung dramatically to majority support for an intake of more migrants from war zones like Syria, a new poll showed as the country welcomed further busloads of asylum seekers on Thursday."
We now live in Plato's cave where the media deals in psy-ops and not the truth. There is no way in hell the people of Europe welcome these refugees. And most of the refugees will be economic refugees from sub-saharan Africa not Syria.
The picture of the Turkish child was staged and the reported story is completely false.
That little boy and his family were living just fine in Turkey until his dad decided he wanted to go to Germany to get dental care.
Europe could take in 200 million refugees from Africa and the african pipulation would merely revert back to 2005 levels.
72% of "refugees"(invaders are men 12% women and 13% children.(only 50% are from Syria).
Europe needs to literally machine gun immigrants or it will eventually be swamped via human waves until the level of life becomes third world.
@ Waffen:
I do not know if a machine-gun is the preferred solution. But in the end force must be used to keep invaders out. Any self-respecting state and nation did so in the past (and present).
The German parties in the Parliament do not represent the German people any longer.
When the truly rich feel that they are being looked at, they hold the middle class up in front of them and declare them 'rich' Just like Bammyboy, who thinks people making 250 - 400 K a year are 'the rich people', and a name like 'Waren Buffet' will never be brought up in the same conversation.
Believe me, the "rich" pay very little tax. They DO pay alot for CPAs and tax lawyers. This will inevitably screw the Middle Class just as Pelosi/Reed/Barry's Obamacare destroys merika's middle class.
The very rich in the EU and corporations want the cheap young labor who will work for food they are so desperate. Moar middle Class workers in the EU will be fired. Same as in the usa. It's basic Harvard/Princeton/Yale business strategy.
The corporate mongers pretend to be "humanitarian" when thier real goal is very cheap labor. Classic.
Cheap labor and rapidly multiplying (by breeding) voters. Sick plan!!!
Democracy triumphs over freedom and prosperity once again.
Burka wearers don't need to make much money as they don't spend much on clothes.
But the gay porn costs bankrupt the men every time.
I've got Bad News for The Wealthy. These young male migrants don't want some low paying job (just some food and roof over their heads). They almost to a man get into The Hip Hop Gangsta Lifestyles (Pimps, Hoes and Selling Blow). If you look at The UK Papers for 10 mins. You'll see what's going on in the cities in The UK. They are becoming literally No Go Zones, where Gangsta's Rule and any decent man or woman is subject to attack and or Robbery/Rape. Just more of the general deliberate breakdown of Western Society... Mr Flesh
"Finland's rich first, soon everywhere else; and since the rich control the media... blah, blah, blah"
Did ZH just become a Marxist, Frankfurt Club mouthpiece?
Europe is being invaded by Islamic hordes you idiots, the real humanitarian crisis will be in Europe once all these Religion of Peace (TM) followers begin to settle there.
Yep, and reports keep coming in that substantial number of them are ISIS members
To be fair, they've been telling us that the UK has several thousand "terrorists" amongst its Muslim population ... for quite a few years.
They are apparently "very nice terrorists" ... because they don't seem to do any actual terrorising.
Either these merciless killers are really, really shit at their job/plain bone idle fuckers .... OR, someone is telling porkies.
Well, in the US, the government is telling us that there are 318 million terrorists. The illegals not counted are the only ones that shouldn't be indefinitely detained.
The coming civil war in Europe will be catastrophic. You devastate peoples' homeland; they want revenege. They're coming for you, Europe.
So...They are contractors for See-eye-ay then...splendid!
They are going to keep digging through that giant pile of shit till they find the pony. Socialism ain't going to save them when they are being invaded by anarchists. Thankfully I live in the USA where we have our own migrant disaster brewing.....
look at the immigration numbers
Zactly 114MM Euros - get your dick out my ass. Figure double - call it 250MM Euros
What people don't realize is government's definition of "rich" = anyone with an income.
Who will bear the burden? The middle class of course.
But the middle class likes to think that they won't be the one's footing the bills. By claiming "the rich will pay", governments feed into middle class self denial that they get more FROM the government than they pay.....
Actually the middle class have just extrapolated their wealth and taking into account the time this will take to pass politically, the middle class have correctly deduced that they will have no wealth at that time.
The Middle Class are expecting to be the poor part of the FSA once this passes. The Rich part of the FSA (0.01% and corporations) will continue to thrive....
xacktly, anopheles. +1,000 to ya.
Yeah,that might work(note sarcasm)
Syria is our war but it's your problem.
It's not my war. I'm not a disgusting zionist JEW bastard. I sure as hell didn't vote for it and besides my vote is drowned out by a bunch of idiotic women voters and worthless degenerate scum like welfare parasites, wetbacks, and worthless brainwashed white fucktards who know nothing beyond their beloved sports teams. I'm sick of democracy and universal suffrage. It's time for men to lead and deal with the problems rather than a bunch of cucks being led around by fucking jews.
"I'll tell you how it's going to be:
there's one for you nineteen for me.
'Cause I'm the tax man.
Should 5% seem to small,
be thankful I dont take it all.
'Cause I'm the tax man
Don't ask me what I want it for
Ha Ha Mr. Koskinen
If you don't want to pay some more.
Ha Ha Mrs. Lerner.
Cause I'm the tax man
and your working for noone but me.
> I'm rich.
> Now we're all liberal-rich.
Death to these invaders and those who support them. Death to the governments of Europe and the US.
How nice.
We have our first ISIS poster on ZH.
Let's all Sharia the love.
Higher taxes will be the least of their worries within 5 years the rest of Europe will join Kosovo
Well, the EU only has to thank themselves for their support of EU/NATO/Isreal policies. So, do you see the Germans seriously complaining about the US 70+ year occupation. Many of the air strikes against Libya were flown out of the US Airbase at Aviano. BTW, some of the strikes were actually flown by Swedish aircraft...yes, the country that hosts the Nobel Prize. This is what you get when you crawl in bed with the zionist and host their bases....and most Europeans did this quite willingly. I would like to hear from ZH European readers.
Goodbye, EU. The tsunami of migrants and refugees will be the end of you, and of your civilization.
The saddest part is that you did it to yourself, and thus merit no pity.
Media outlets are placing the change in mindset as a benefit of staging pictures of the dead child.
Justifiable manipulated information becomes a good thing rather than the next step in the bastardization of the Journalistic profession.
Lower middle class is the new 'rich'.
In the U.S., lower middle class is the new middle class and will remain so if the individual remains employed. I have always preferred comparing debt ratios over income; thus can find someone LMC (such as I) wealthier than many with too much non-productive debt.
the Laffer curve says that the harder you squeeze, the less you get.
At this point the European Experiment divides people into two camps:
Camp 1: Has no personal debt, and has personal resources, and is therefore mobile and can relocate in order to minimize personal effects from increasing chaos.
Camp 2: Has personal debt which cannot be extinguished, (and/or) has no personal resources, therefore is stuck in place, and will have to deal with increasing chaos locally.
The Camp #3 is of course politicians which will be promising things to both camps to try to make things Happy Happy Happy.
Yes, stick it to those filthy 1%ers making that obsene salary of $81,000 per year.
Do I need the sarc tag?
What happened to the responsibility of Aylan's parents for exposing their little child to this risk? I wish I did not have to pile on like this, but it's not the fault of all the people in Europe.
It's the whole world's fault according to Aylan's Aunt in Canada. But if you've ditched the guilt trip, and you've set down the White Man's Burden, then sing it with me...
"We're not the world,
They're not our children.
There ain't no way to make these apes humane
So let's stop giving.
It's a choice we're making,
We're saving our White Lives.
It's true, you know it's them or you,
So let them die."
I didn't know about Aylan's aunt in Canada. So this is another Trayvon story where the family's hyping it and keeping it going?
The Syrians, by the way, are white.
I think somebody has hired a PR firm to blast the story into worldwide coverage. I don't think it's the family. Probably a Soros NGO.
We should eliminate gangs before we vote on WWIII against terror
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stick to what we do well after we figure out nation building @home
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Civilization is important we should not delude ourselves, war is dangerous for the people getting bombed.
This, 1000 times.
Europeans were against higher taxes to pay for a military. Now they get to pay higher taxes AND have the benefits from a massive influx of Muslim refugees.
if you just get your info from lamestream media here in europe (neuvo pravda) you would think that NATO is a bubblegum factory pumping out clouds of friendly unicorns and sweets instead of NATO's globalist pre-enforcement arm.
tylers, please note: there is a difference, and an important one, between the word "refugee" and the word "migrant". the decisions, policies and legal frameworks are also different so please don't play into the globalist debate nomenclature and synonymize them.
True.
Migrants bring drugs.
Refugees come empty-handed.
Invaders.
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when i red s tory that uses proof like 'a national poll' done by the gov claims that everyone is for shooting themselves in the head....i stop reading. who are these idiots writing these articles....?
Send all Migrants aka invaders to Finnish PM's home. He will accomodate all...! :cool:
Great idea. But the papers keep making the mistake of calling the middle class "the rich".
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"This issue is hardly relevant for Russia," presidential press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said. "Of course, we had anticipated certain costs (material and other) these processes will entail. To a large extent these costs will be borne by the countries that at a certain point contributed to bringing about the catastrophic situation in some Maghreb states and in the Middle East," Peskov said. He avoided mentioning the countries he had in mind.
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