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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober
Yeah, but it would even itself out soon enough. A bit of temporary hassle but getting out of the EU scot free, is a better, smaller price to pay than being stuck in there with no control at all until 2099....
Besides, even if we did print and give 1000 Billion over to them, only a very small amount would actually get into the economy. Most would end up in private bank accounts of certain already extremely wealthy people, and never see the light of day...
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Great Britain, like Germany and France, is a net contributor, so the country pays more into the EU pot than it gets out. According to the latest available figures from 2014, the British Treasury HMT paid 9.9 billion pounds net in 2014, or 12.5 billion euros at today's exchange rate.
That is 190 million pounds per week, equivalent to 240.8 million euros. Calculated down to every single Briton, it is 153 pounds per year (around 194 euros) or 42 pence a day (53.2 cents) that go to the EU.
These figures are based on the so-called Pink Book of the National Statistical Office (ONS). If, however, not only the EU's financial contributions to the public sector are included in the calculation, but also those to the British private sector, the annual amount is further reduced.
On the basis of data from the European Commission, the average is 7.1 billion pounds - the equivalent of nine billion euros - which the UK transferred to the EU annually between 2010 and 2014.
However, the British GDP has increased by between 500 and 900 billion annually in the same period due to the benefits of the EU,
this bill is therefore a very stupid one. very untrue and very populist because in order to be able to pay these 1000 billion into the EU, Great britain would have had to be a member of the EU for more than 100 years and would have earned 50,000 billion more in the same time.