Deutsche Bank proposes a 5% tax for people still working from home after the pandemic

[tomorton]

How is UK doing? Better than the German idiots?

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Yeah, it ain't good. We need all the help we can get from stupid Deutsche Bank......

 

[tomorton]

Have you actually "left"? Been in the works for years it seems... like you can't seem to "seal the deal"?

(Personally, I'm all for the UK leaving the EU. F' them!!)

Yes, the UK has left. We're now in the transition period until 31/12 during which we negotiate future trade etc. relationships.

 

[Scataphagos]

Yes, the UK has left. We're now in the transition period until 31/12 during which we negotiate future trade etc. relationships.

Kind of reminds me of marriage. Easy to get into, a bitch to get out of!

 

[bone]

1. The 5% "privilege" tax is an asinine idea. The idea is to 'social distance' and not intermingle and not spread the freaking virus. Why discourage or tax a practice that the governments are either encouraging or outright mandating? The COVID-19 or it's mutated progeny strains might be with us for who knows how long.

2. The UK economy is hot garbage and France is warm garbage and Italy is room temperature garbage. All of this social engineering and government overlordship is useless without a robust export market to feed the beast.

3. Keynes, Atlee, and Labour killed the UK post-W2 - why encourage this nonsense?

4. Even the US Left never thought up something this stupid.

 

[tomorton]

1. The 5% "privilege" tax is an asinine idea. The idea is to 'social distance' and not intermingle and not spread the freaking virus. Why discourage or tax a practice that the governments are either encouraging or outright mandating? The COVID-19 or it's mutated progeny strains might be with us for who knows how long.

2. The UK economy is hot garbage and France is warm garbage and Italy is room temperature garbage. All of this social engineering and government overlordship is useless without a robust export market to feed the beast.

3. Keynes, Atlee, and Labour killed the UK post-W2 - why encourage this nonsense?

4. Even the US Left never thought up something this stupid.

Not so fast bone, until the Brexit decision, the UK had by a long measure the fastest-growing GDP in the G8.

 

[virtusa]

Not so fast bone, until the Brexit decision, the UK had by a long measure the fastest-growing GDP in the G8.

Unfortunatelly that" fastest-growing GDP in the G8" did not help much to the population.

 

[tomorton]

Unfortunatelly that" fastest-growing GDP in the G8" did not help much to the population.

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As you have a source for these metrics how does that relate to comparable societies?

 

[virtusa]

As you have a source for these metrics how does that relate to comparable societies?

Tried to find it for Germany, but there I don't have numbers but %. 15.5% of the population.
That would be for the UK (population 67,886,000) correspond with 10,522,330 people.
So UK has 35% more poverty. And Germany still has the East German heritage with a lot of unemployed people, if not the numbers would even be much better.

 

[tsznecki]

@virtusa aka @JSOP aka volpunter will attack anyone who posts negative articles against Germany, US FYI

 

[DiceAreCast]

... Policies and ideas which apparently do not stifle innovation. After all the only covid vaccine in existence and which you will get to save your life and the lives of all those around you was developed by immigrants and second Gen immigrants in Germany. Exactly those people this idea would benefit.

It would be like a German bank (or many European banks) to start wailing for the government to do something when their business turns downwards.

I'm actually happy (I'm in the UK) for Germany for make as many stupid anti-free market decisions as it possibly can - now that we have left the EU.