Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Will a new government end Bulgaria's corruption woes? | DW News" video.

  1. @martin manuel I NOW LIVE IN BULGARIA and whilst it IS corrupt, I would argue the corruption is amateurish and obvious and that's why its SEEN by people. In the UK the government have just robbed the people of £50 Billion on PPE contracts for their friends and even their mate who owned a pub they go to, but its legal cos they are BETTER AT CORRUPTION...!!! Its the same in the USA, the corruption is MASSIVE but they are just much better at it than the Bulgarian politicians. In other countries, they just make a law that you have to pay €150 for this piece of paper and their mate gets the printing contract, in Bulgaria the piece of paper is free but you have to pay the guy €20 to hand you it. The corruption in the more advanced counties STILL EXISTS they just cover it up with a veneer of legality
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  2. I NOW LIVE IN BULGARIA and whilst it IS corrupt, I would argue the corruption is amateurish and obvious and that's why its SEEN by people. In the UK the government have just robbed the people of £50 Billion on PPE contracts for their friends and even their mate who owned a pub they go to, but its legal cos they are BETTER AT CORRUPTION...!!! Its the same in the USA, the corruption is MASSIVE but they are just much better at it than the Bulgarian politicians. In other countries, they just make a law that you have to pay €150 for this piece of paper and their mate gets the printing contract, in Bulgaria the piece of paper is free but you have to pay the guy €20 to hand you it. The corruption in the more advanced counties STILL EXISTS they just cover it up with a veneer of legality
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  3.  @bccochrane1  - Yep. And as tax is a flat rate 10% on everything, be it capital gains or a company car, or a Saturday job, it is WAY harder to avoid tax in a "legal" way, so the rich wanting to get ever richer report to obviously illegal things. If tax is 10% FULL STOP, there is no real wiggle room. I FULLY expect them to change this to a more western version where the Billionaires pay 0.1 to 2% as we just discovered in the USA. Billionaires in Bulgaria have to pay 10% - they don't like that.
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  4.  @kirilmihaylov1934  - yeah - ok - whatever.
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  5.  @kirilmihaylov1934  - OK - Thats fine. Im happy to know nothing. Its not an issue to me, its up to the Bulgarian people what they do about it.
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