JumpyWombat
I’m afraid you know little about the real estate business, and are blinded by the assumption that landlords are all just rich bastards.
Your PS is correct if you, like Elon Musk, are able to live borrowing money using your wealth as a collateral. For most of wealthy people that’s impossible.
I get it: you would bind the tax discount to individual wealth.
What if I’d tell you that a minimal renovation would eat the earnings from a rented house for 5-10 years and be therefore completely anti economic for the landlord?
You can tax as usual and have some renovations, or tax less and have more renovations.
I suggested the Catholics because they just did it, but that idea seems to appreciated by autocrats and fascists worldwide from China to the US. Here in the EU we are hypocrites: we do it "for the children" to make it palatable to the general public that will never dare to oppose to that excuse. "If you are against this, you are with the pedos" is a frequently used argument.
Obviously porn will not disappear from Internet, and there is no regulation that can achieve that, but the goal is not porn. The goal is to make it harder for a child to access scientific information about his sexuality while growing up, or for an adult to access historical information about what fascism really meant. Things like that are the real targets.
Because ignorance is a fertile ground to cultivate idiot voters.
I guess UK, but it may come to the EU soon since the Catholics are trying to do the same, the right-wing parties hope for the censorship of "adult" topics spanning from gender issues to history, and the left is sitting on their thumbs.
I would not hold my breath considering that GH was already supposed to die in 2018 and we are still predicting its imminent end in 2025.
Wrong assumption 👋
I haven’t read it anywhere. It’s just how it is. why do you think this is not the case?
So you are saying that you have first hand information to state that "the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking". Who are you? A sociologist who studied the EU for the past two decades?
I'm asking because it's completely in contrast with my first hand experience. I lived and worked in a few countries besides my original one and I found that the actual differences are more limited to what people eat for breakfast, what stereotypes they have for other countries, and the quality of the services one gets.
Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say
well their dose is not healthy
So where do you stand? With Farage cherry picking what you like of the Union?
as I see this would either need voluntary high cooperation of most countries, which would be a good thing (but not in the sense of imposing my country’s laws on your country because your country hosts servers of interest)
The cornerstone of the EU is the free market that means having a company from Spain able to do business in Germany. To achieve that, it is essential to have common rules and common standards just like it's essential to eliminate barriers. You can't have your cake and eat it too. The UK tried, and now they are out.
or a united states of europe that would basically replace each country’s political system with a top-down system as the other user said, where there are no local elections for the ruling party anymore, or much less meaningful
Maybe you didn't notice, but the European elections are already much more important than the local elections since the internal political economy is largely controlled by the EU. Your government can (for now) play around civil rights, manage pocket money, but cannot go out of the European boundaries that are becoming tighter and tighter every year.
10 days is way too little time for appeal, especially when there’s a high volume of requests (a single country could overload their capacity)
You are attacking a law that removes national barriers because your slightly-fascist country may abuse of that. Fix the fascism instead.
if a country bans encryption
It won't happen, but even if it does, you run your own.
There is the left and there is uncritically praising China and Russia as the best countries in the world (while probably not living there) ignoring a whole series of facts.