Comments by "Henry Law" (@henrybn14ar) on "David Starkey--Covid-19: Economic Suicide, Boris' Red Wall & the Failure of Globalisation & Big Govt" video.

The UK killed its manufacturing sector with its idiotic tax system. Even a window tax would be better. The UK tax system is nothing but a system of fines and penalties for successfully engaging in legal economic activity
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@robertaspindale2531 There is a long list of differences which favour German industry, and there are also important differences between the tax systems in the two countries. Germany also has the advantage of being in the centre of a land mass rather than being an island, and a currency which is undervalued by around 20%; the latter is not really an advantage as it means that Germans are effectively working for nothing for one day a week. If Germany has done better it despite its tax system, not because of it. If an enemy power wanted to damage the economy of a country, it would impose a tax system like that of the UK.
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@VantaBlack216 German efficiency is a myth. It is a case of "other people's grass". In my experience they are even better at being jobsworths than the British. This inflexibility costs them money. I had a run-in with a German company (DHL) only last week which lost them a job and inconvenienced me as well. They live up to their stereotypes. It might be a Lutheran trend, though the Scandinavians are also Lutherans but tend to be more pragmatic, probably because they are maritime cultures like the British.
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