In my humble opinion, that’s how the great (tax) reset will happen in Europe.
Right now we have oppressive taxation in practically every country of Europe, due to having to keep the Euro and the European Union together. Until now, this stupid game has worked due to the core countries being able to make the European Union work for them, and also them making examples of “rebel” countries like Greece and Cyprus.
Citizens of core countries were kept happy with good salaries and relatively low taxes, but most of all a super strong welfare state.
But things are coming apart now: Germany has lost its privileged access to Russian energy, along with the rest of Europe, and many countries will have to run deficits and/or devalue their currency.
The core countries will have none of that, and will push for restricting the Euro to themselves only, or even one currency per country.
This will cause countries like Italy, Greece and Spain to go back to national currencies and finally find fiscal freedom again.
At that point, we will see which countries will do fiscal harakiri and go full communist and which countries will choose freedom and entrepreneurship.
This will take no more than 5 years from now, with or without an extended version of the Ukraine war in the middle.
Right now we have oppressive taxation in practically every country of Europe, due to having to keep the Euro and the European Union together. Until now, this stupid game has worked due to the core countries being able to make the European Union work for them, and also them making examples of “rebel” countries like Greece and Cyprus.
Citizens of core countries were kept happy with good salaries and relatively low taxes, but most of all a super strong welfare state.
But things are coming apart now: Germany has lost its privileged access to Russian energy, along with the rest of Europe, and many countries will have to run deficits and/or devalue their currency.
The core countries will have none of that, and will push for restricting the Euro to themselves only, or even one currency per country.
This will cause countries like Italy, Greece and Spain to go back to national currencies and finally find fiscal freedom again.
At that point, we will see which countries will do fiscal harakiri and go full communist and which countries will choose freedom and entrepreneurship.
This will take no more than 5 years from now, with or without an extended version of the Ukraine war in the middle.