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Originally Posted by MaDalton
yeah, Poland is indeed weird. their economy would do much better if they would be less involved with this whole religion thing. every time i went over the border to Zgorzelec i felt like going back in time for 50 years
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The church doesn't so much effect the economy here. What does effect it is that the country is such a mess and is very anti-business with relatively high taxes for what you get.
We still have a ton of ex-communist guys in government. Starting up a business here takes 1 month for the paper work, a shitload of different fees, and then even running the thing costs you 200euro a month in 'insurance' and other crap (roughly half the average wage). Alot of people work under the table because of how high taxes are (18% or 32% tax brackets, plus workers insurance, health insurance etc). If i hire a worker I have to pay his insurance which is based on his wage, so it comes out that i would have to pay a whole second salary of his to legally hire him. Worker's dont want to pay tax, and companies do not want to pay the workers insurance stuff plus taxes plus salary because it would just not be worth it, so everything is under the table and paid in cash. Then the people who actually DO pay taxes get chased every year by old fucking communist ladies working at the tax ministry trying to fuck you out of every penny they can and looking for any tiny problem in your taxes or in your company so they can get like a 10 euro bonus on thier salary while potentially costing you thousands. Last tax control I got tickets for actually working 1 door over from where my company was registered, and for not having my invoices in polish.
Poland is still communist pretty much. All these fucking people running the country were brought up to believe that private business is evil.