>Italy should face disciplinary action after “serious non-compliance ” with EU fiscal rules, the European Commission said today.
>The EU’s executive arm made the announcement in a report containing a damning opinion on Italy’s draft budget plans for next year, which include a flat tax and a basic income for the poor.
Finally, some good fucking spoils. Picking skin off Greece's bones was barely worth the effort but Italy has over 10 trillions in underutilized wealth, ripe for plundering.
Jason Russell
>plundering So, the e""""u"""" is Germany basically.
>implying any of that money goes to france your big government reliant economy has no place in the new Europe.
Mason Davis
>a """"union"""" of """"equals"""" isn't populism
Isaiah Mitchell
As it should be. The Gallic man exists to serve his Teutonic masters.
Jose Evans
Are you German by any chance?
Chase Campbell
I'd be absolutely fine with Italy making whatever budget they want if they publicly announce that after they go bankrupt in 2023 they won't receive a single cent from the EU and they can go beg the IMF for money
Carter Bell
>basic income for the poor I'll never understand how it's a good idea to incentivise laziness and incompetence, or how it's moral to steal from the productive to give to the parasites.
Landon Morgan
>proclaim unsustainable socialist populist bullshit >get elected >steal as much as you can >when the economy collapses blame Germany
Evan Lopez
The productive need a consumer class, don't they now?
Levi Adams
The productive wouldn't be productive if they didn't have a consumer class.
Leo Sanders
that too
Elijah Hill
So in order for there to be a productive class to steal from, there had to have been a consuming class.
Why the fuck would consumers have to be unemployed? You can have a job and still be a consumer and the economy will do better. Purposefully creating a class of non-working people that live off the working people and spend their money for them is like the most retarded thing I've ever heard.
Adam Ramirez
>What's the purpose of the e""""u"""" anyway? dabbing on m*Doids apparently
>steal from I said consumer class not merchant class
Adrian Jackson
There can't be full employment. Besides, low paying jobs aren't even worth it anymore. It's just a step above living on welfare and you get taxed for it.
Jose Lopez
They dab on you too.
Leo Torres
We dab on them, something that m*Ds cant afford.
William Young
Yeah but why would the productive be productive if the only reason for a productive to be productive is to sustain the consumer class?
Nolan James
Should of won the war, kiddo.
Aiden Martinez
Heh, the EU and all its attendant bullshit were worth it for these posts.
Nicholas Fisher
>sustain a consumer buys a product the producer profits
Ian Richardson
no you can't. One of the most common argument against you is the fact that you get tons of funding
Thank you, Italy, for taking away from us the burden of being eurocrats' favourite virtue signalling target
Bentley Reyes
I think EU is moving away from the current "bash Eastern Europe" fad and going back to the old, well-tried "exploit South and then call them lazy" classic
Samuel Hill
Maybe this pause is only temporary. I mean, why not go for both?