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EU Commission: EU-wide tax by 2010

2005-06-07

The European Commission is looking into long-range plans for an EU-wide taxation system, according to a German press report on Saturday. The Commission has set a 2010 target date for looking into the feasibility of a pan-European tax and providing EU member nations with details of the proposed revenue-generating system, said the report in Die Welt newspaper. The newspaper said its information came from proposals made by the Luxembourg EU presidency in planning 2007-13 finances.
You didn't think they'd give up did you?

Posted by:too true

#8 Proclamation of 1866, by the Confederate States of America: "Now that our right to own slaves is assured, we demand that the purchase of slaves be subsidized by the Union."
What you fellas been smokin'?

Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-06-07 18:39

#7 Great timing! A week AFTER the French and the Dutch started expressing doubts. What would the election results have been if this announcement had been made two weeks ago?

Posted by: Tom 2005-06-07 13:14

#6 TGA things won't boil over until they try to tax beer, then it will be "Start the revolution!"

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-06-07 12:20

#5 The Tranzis wet dream: Power to tax at will and no one to answer to.

Your choice, Europe. Do you want to be taxed to death in your few remaining years before you hand over the continent to islamists and sharia law?

(And when that happens, if you think you were taxed before....)

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-07 12:02

#4 Gotta have a Constitution first.

I feel sorry for the Easterners (Europeans). They had no idea.

Posted by: Rafael 2005-06-07 11:53

#3 time for a tea party!

Posted by: 2b 2005-06-07 11:37

#2 Er, what's the European Parliament? I mean, just because almost nobody votes in those elections doesn't mean that it isn't a certain half-assed species of representation.

I mean, presumably the Commission will deign to let the European Parliament rubber-stamp such a centralized tax.

If the European Union ever becomes a proper state, I would kind of expect this sort of thing. Of course, unless everybody involved were stark raving insane, they'd have to reduce the national tax schemes in parallel, or else wreck their economies. The central distinction between a federation and a state is the possibility of centralized tax authority. Under the Articles, the American states offered contributions to Congress, if Congress was lucky. Under the Constitution, taxes were levied directly, via the excise.

As I understand the current situation in the EU, its central institutions are funded by contributions from the constituent states, right? That's a federation. Federations suck. Look at Star Trek.

Posted by: Mitch H. 2005-06-07 11:37

#1 Ever heard about "no taxation without representation?"

Posted by: True German Ally 2005-06-07 11:24

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