Comments by "Henry Law" (@henrybn14ar) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Tasteless video in the circumstances and the UK faces bigger problems now.
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  2. The Swedish government has enough problems on its hands without having to think about trying to sell the idea of joining the Euro. Confidence is at an all time low.
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  3.  @MrAranton  Have you read the agreement clause by clause?
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  4. 45% of German labour costs are tax.
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  5.  @crazydragy4233  The Common Agricultural Policy promotes environmentally destructive farming inside Europe. The British landscape was wrecked by intensification of farming due to EEC subsidies and guaranteed prices. It has also led to long term soil damage which is anything but secure and sustainable. At the same time, European consumers have been forced to pay through the nose for daily necessities, while values of farm land have soared. It is up to people to protect their own natural environments. The EU cannot act as environmental policemen.
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  6. Technically the Russians started the war but the provocation by NATO and the EU has been going on since 2014.
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  7. The EU ruined Sweden dairy farmers with its sanctions on Russia, which was a major customer. The UK is still a major customer for EU suppliers. They will be big losers if they restrict exports to the UK.
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  8. The 'sanctions' were a boycott. Self harming.
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  9. It could just as well be some western outfit what done it.
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  10. TLDR is plumbing new depths today. How can anyone talk about wealth without first defining what they mean by "wealth"?
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  11. The EU is not a free trade zone. You cannot even trade with another member of your own family in the house next door without being hit by VAT. It's a FEE TRADE ZONE.
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  12. ​ @lellyparker  The EU is run by the unelected elite of Commissioners.
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  13. They always are.
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  14. This channel damages its credibility by personalising the conflict as a Putin thing. Bad pronunciation of place names doesn't help either, not to mention not being able to pronounce some English words properly.
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  15. There is a war on. The Israelis did not start it. The Palestinians can stop and there will be a ceasefire.
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  16. Watch out Moscow, here they come.
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  17. No-one does it better than TLDR.
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  18. They got rid of property taxes, now they are bringing in people but there is not enough room for them.
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  19. The idea is misguided in principle. Nicholas Kaldor, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge advised against the common currency in the 1970s. The Swedish krona has sunk like a stone recently. Sweden would be in even bigger trouble if it had the Euro. The Euro is at least 10% undervalued for Germany, which means that Germans are working a day a week for nothing. The German motivation was mercantilist and therefore wrong. This has led to the dangerous situation of Germany having a persistent balance of payments surplus with the surplus consisting of bad debt, and the southern countries having a persistent deficit, also on borrowed funds. If these countries had continued to have their own currencies, with floating exchange rates, the trade imbalance would have corrected itself. A fundamental flaw with the Euro is that as long as interest rates are a primary means of economic regulation, there can be no interest rate which is suitable for any large geographical area; even the UK is too large for a single currency in that situation. These conceptual faults far outweigh the convenience of not having to exchange money. The Euro is now on borrowed time. When the crash comes, it will be messy.
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  20. Sweden's economy has been weak for years. The public sector has grown unsustainably and a lot of people are locked out of the economy by the tax system.
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  21. It is made much worse because tax systems ignore the differences, apart from national property taxes.
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  22. Scroungers.
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  23. Micron? Mucron?
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  24. The EU is Deutsches Reich 3.1 whichever way it is shaped. You cannot polish a turd.
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  25. The EU and the EEC before it have been kicking down their member countries economies since 1957.
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  26. We could do with a lot more "Islamophobia". Islam is the real threat to those western liberal values which are worth preserving, and followers of Islam would not disagree.
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  27. To stop more people getting killed?
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  28. Zelensky's attack on the Orthodox Church will cost him. Mistake.
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  29. High GDP tends to lead to sky high land prices ie sky high house prices. That is good for the moneylenders. Not so good for everyone else. The earlier history of the republic is a good example of the damaging effects of protectionism. Why does the EU base its trade policies on protectionism?
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  30. I know a lot of Serbians and have yet to meet one who wants their country to join the EU . Here in Sweden most people I know want the country to get out.
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  31.  @fahimshamsuddin672  GST, VAT, MOMS. The most damaging and inefficient tax ever invented. The real yield to the government is less than 50% of the headline amount supposedly collected. VAT just robs other taxes of the revenue they would have collected anyway if the VAT never existed. VAT also shrinks a country's GDP by at least 0.25% for each 1% of VAT If you can think of a worse tax, what is it?
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  32.  @raivisb326  The whole of the economy in Eastern Europe on both sides is messed up because of the customs barrier between the EU and the countries outside. It blocks the free movement of goods and has disrupted normal trade patterns. That explains exactly what you have described. There is no need to be offensive. It does not help your argument.
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  33.  @fahimshamsuddin672  VAT is not a tax on consumers; it is a bluff. Businesses bear the cost of the tax. They absorb the VAT to maintain volumes of sales. Those that can't go broke. VAT is a destroyer of businesses. Compensation payments create poverty traps. There is also the cost of compliance. VAT is a big expense for smaller businesses. In needs to go but the EU is wedded to it. If you look at the EU web site you will see that VAT fraud is massive 34% of VAT is lost in Romania. You would think that the EU would have realised that their tax is not fit for purpose but apparently they are unperturbed.
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  34. And Pannier Tanks
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  35. Not from us in Sweden. No wind, no solar, nuclear out of action. 56 Euro per kwh.
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  36. Yes, they should stop crippling its economy with taxes on food and other imports, and taxes on wages, goods and services.
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  37.  @IMGreg..  The west has taxed its productive economy almost to death since 1945. There is a widespread idea that money can be made by moving money around and by speculation.
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  38.  @Solitas777  The EU concentrates on thinking of ways of damaging its own economy.
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  39.  @Marqan  European politicians have been assertively ruining their countries' economies since the 1950s. They and their advisors don't know what they are doing, or they would, presumably, stop doing it.
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  40.  @sonneh86  Having a military HQ under a hospital is a war crime.
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  41. No mystery. Supply and demand, partly a consequence of a bumper crop from the money tree. Land Value Tax, reduced migration and cutting down the money tree are needed. Rent control is a proven failure. You end up with a secondary grey market. Nothing to do with interest rates. Landlords cannot pass on higher costs. TLDR needs to get up to speed with its economics.
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  42. Anti dumping measures are what governments do after they have taxed their own industries to death.
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  43. Ask around in the Nations' bars. It is just the sort of thing that Swedish students would do as a Rag season prank.
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  44. Ukraine includes a chunk stolen from Hungary by Stalin. There are chunks of other neighbouring countries too.
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  45. The way that this channel has personalised the conflict has not enhanced its credibility.
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  46. What happened to Biden's model aeroplane?
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  47. Mercantilist analysis. EU consumers are big losers. EU rules have wiped out the smaller concerns eg civil engineering, railway rolling stock etc. Only the big fish can afford the compliance costs.
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  48. The EU needs to scrap VAT and the Single Market, just for a start.
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  49. Swedes seem to be exceptionally naive on financial matters. They spend and borrow money as if there was no tomorrow. The Swedish inflation is the consequence of ever growing public spending and a tax system that is well beyond its capacity for raising additional revenue.
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  50. We in the EU are the ones who pay for the EU trade wars. Sky high prices for food, petrol diesel and gas. They are clueless.
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