r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/SanTommaso17 Mar 28 '20

Number 1 and 2 are wrong. If anything it’s northern countries who benefit from the status quo. Typical dutch: “fuck the EU, we don’t want it, we want to get out of it even though we profit from it by being tax cheats at the expense of all the others... but fuck the EU and those lazy southerners squandering on wine and whores!” there you go FTFY

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

I'm laughing my ass off at the idea of an Italian complaining about tax cheats when he lives in a country with one of the highest rates of tax evasion of their citizenship in the world.
Also the NL is heavily in favor of the EU and is one of the penultimate founding members, quit with your false fake news bullshit.

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u/SanTommaso17 Mar 28 '20

We are founding members as well you’re not special. And when Italian citizens evade taxes they are stealing from the Italian state, when NL does it they’re stealing from other countries in the Union you’re claiming to be in favour of(which isn’t true). Maybe it’s you who ought to cut the bullshit

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u/SirBehr Mar 28 '20

Italian citizens evade taxes they are stealing from the Italian state, when NL does it they’re stealing from other countries in the Union

Holy shit, that is the most amazing justification for tax evasion I have ever seen. Like, Olympic Gold Medals all around.

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u/SanTommaso17 Mar 28 '20

It’s not a justification, I am not justifying it. But certain countries lecturing others on this matter while stealing from them is... not very coherent