Back To Communism Now? New Tax On Financial Transfers and Gains?

The financial crash is still ongoing - actually - we have not even seen all if it yet - as I suspect- and here we go again....in our good old Europe we hear voices on media all around that reminds me very strongly to the voices of old school communists from the old Soviet block some 15-20 years ago.

Starting with those voices - which made me laugh at the time - here an example: a woman in Russia was telling me around 1990 that "the country is going to the dogs because of speculation"- and when I asked her + others in the round of friends - she should tell me an example - I heard this: nobody has a safe job or money any more - so SOME people buy - for example - TOYOTA car parts- at the border to Mongolia from Chinese traders - and bring them by train (train fairs are incredibly cheap in Russia) to another - more Western city - and sell them there to other traders for a profit of about 200 or even 500%.

Other such examples were told - like fruit and veggies and silks and hats etc. brought from one place to the other and sold for profit.

Very much in vain did I try to explain - and my Russian is passably good - mind you - that this is NOT speculation, but sheer normal trade - just TRADE. And I tried to explain that the profit was JUSTIFIED - for the very fact: in those years traders had to pay everything in CASH - there simply was no other instrument of financing in existence - no normal person got something like a credit card (though the big party shots had them, of course) - so they carried the cash at their own risk in the train (trains are not really safe in Russia - thieves abound)- one woman told me how she had thick packages of Rubel-Notes hidden in her pantyhose when she travelled to buy furs for her little factory and freaked out every time she had to use the toilet as to not lose the money - and they carried the goods back at their own risk, too - AND they sacrificed their TIME - all in all - the profit was quite justified.

It's something we all in the West call "private enterprise". Now I'm not touching the subject here if all these people had an official company and paid taxes on what they were doing (most did, actually) - and this was not even the subject on discussion anyway.

Now to the parallel I hear in OUR media in May 2009: our "socialists" are thinking of new taxes on financial gains - such as when you sell a house or a car or stocks or ANYTHING - any financial transaction that bears any PROFIT = and this is really what they call it: SPECULATION-tax - should be subjected to a new tax. And - of course it should go to all those people "unemployed" = those doing NOTHING should benefit from those engaging in private enterprise! Now this is what I call communism PURE!! .

Now - to draw the line here - I'd like to say: those car dealers riding to Mongolia and estate realtors buying property and people buying stocks and funds are NOT speculating - but rather buy and sell these things on INFORMED decision and action, as a general rule. A "speculation" is - as the term indicates- a guessing game. Like some 50:50 chance that it may come off or not.

Whereas everybody else in private enterprise is indeed gathering a lot of information before making any such trasaction - and consequent action - and so the chances to profit are pushed anywhere far above 50% - or else they would very soon go bankrupt.

And it's this gathering of "information" which constitutes the greatest - most vital - part of today's business - that's why it's called the "information society and information age" - so this is not my invention- but has been around for quite a while. Just our SOCIALISTS OF THE OLD SCHOOL seem to think they can win back their voters to declare all day-to-day business now as "speculation" and are as such shining a shameful light on all honest and decent SME (small and medium enterprise) who have been making a living and giving employment and training to young people etc.- in other words - making money for all of us. But suddenly - we are put on the same level with those gangsters who have caused the big crisis with their fraudulent pull-throughs. As if ANY of us had ever seen as much than a million / billions Euros or Pounds or Dollars on one heap??? Maybe we have had it on our accounts as a "pass-through" from client to client - but it was never in our own name for more than a few days. And you can believe me - the small amount that was left to us as "profit" was damn hard worked and fought for!! No speculation in this game....

And when we come to the end of the story - out of what was left in profit, we have all paid our 50% taxes already - and there's NO NEED to pay more taxes when I sell my house or flat or maybe funds or shares - after some years - and make a little profit - for government to eat AGAIN from my table=profit - because I've apparently "speculated", because I'm buying these things our of money that's ALREADY been taxed...and the logic is right there in your face: the government does not carry 50% of my LOSSES either - when I lose it all or parts of it !!! So - the government is not my FRIEND who goes with me through tick and thin - it only holds up his hand when it's thick - and lets me in the drenches when it goes thin...

There's a joke going round in Germany: when a company lays off 5 employees - nothing happens. When another lays off 250 people - the district politicians appear along with the Union district people - when it lays off 5000 people - Angela Merkel appears in person and gives a speech. When a company wants to lay off 25 000 people (like now Opel / GM) the government tries to buy the company. And the other joke in this connection is - you know the name of the new KING OF EUROPE??? It's Agnelli - the chief of FIAT - who tries to buy it all up - Opel after Chrysler - now - this is certainly the road to desaster. Look at those ugly Fiat cars - and the way they never run but are more in the garage than on the road - and this is our "leadership in the car business of the next century??" Holy cow---:)))

Any Japanese car chases any Fiat model off the road as far as quality and comfort is concerned. But its just a joke of the moment - as this will NEVER come off...FIAT  and Opel? My foot ---

Let's not forget - our highly esteemed politicians get their high - too high - remunerations whether the going is good or bad. We enterpreneurs can only survive when the going is good - and maybe can dive through bad stretches if they are not too long.

I'd say- send our socialists of the old school back to Mongolia- see how they like it there.

We won't even waste money to send them as far off than that - let them stand on the street corner and sell a box full of violet-bunches - and live off the proceedings= "profits of speculation" because they'd have to buy the violets (cheap) on the big market and sell them "en detail" and pay taxes on the speculation - and let's see what they tell us then??? None of them have ever sold anything - no violets or a box of matches in their life - and these are the people we should "elect" to represent us in European Parliament ??? I beg your pardon!!

As we see now - it's mainly the large organisations which are laying people off in masses- while the small ones try to struggle through WITH their team of empolyees all complete.

It goes to show again, that those people "who try to help themselves" with imagination and new enterprise are trodden into the ground in favour of those who lie at home on the couch and do nothing but watch TV on sports channel. The Andy Cap Society? Ahhh yes - but I thought even they should know that you can only distribute profits that actually EXIST, and once they are MADE - no profits - no money to go round.

Send those old iron communist buggers to the races to make their bets +speculations there!!!

For the rest of us - we'd better use our imagination and drive to earn a few extra thousand bucks a week!