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Started by celedhring, August 24, 2015, 07:51:32 AM

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Catalonia regional election: who would you vote for?

43 (84.3%)
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Total Members Voted: 50

Razgovory

I'm okay with that.  European Nationalism is fairly lousy.
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Grinning_Colossus

Quote from: celedhring on August 26, 2015, 02:41:12 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2015, 02:27:42 PM
Happy to say that based on what I have seen I would seriously consider voting for her party if I was Catalan.

Besides being rabidly anti-nationalist, they are liberals but slightly weird liberals. They favor labor reform, reduction of red tape, liberalization of the economy, etc... but conversely are for a very strong welfare state.

Liberalizing the market produces more wealth to redistribute. It sounds quite effective to me.
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celedhring

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They sound a bit pie-in-the-sky to me. When asked about how they'll fund their welfare plans while not increasing taxes they always wave their magic wand and say "we'll be more efficient!".

Some of their stuff looks very expensive. They want to implement a rather high minimum wage, but instead of putting the burden on the employer, it would be the state who would pay the difference. That sounds quite expensive to me (and probably would give incentives to businesses to actually pay lower wages, since the taxpayer would pick up the tab).

For the Catalan election, they have just proposed to give out free school books to all students. According to their own calculations, that's 1% of the regional budget gone, right there.

I'm a leftie, so I quite agree with those things if we can tax people accordingly  :mmm: but they won't. So I believe they'd eventually backtrack on their welfare proposals, if elected.

Caliga

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Valmy

Quote from: Caliga on August 28, 2015, 08:40:57 AM
Poll results are hilarious  :lol:

People are really teaching those obnoxious Catalan nationalists a lesson :w00t:
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Josquius

Girl was tempting but went with 3rd one down for how wonderfully photogenic he is.
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Quote from: Tyr on August 29, 2015, 08:05:54 AM
Girl was tempting but went with 3rd one down for how wonderfully photogenic he is.

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celedhring

Quote from: Tyr on August 29, 2015, 08:05:54 AM
Girl was tempting but went with 3rd one down for how wonderfully photogenic he is.

He's the right wing of our right wing party. He even ran on a FN-esque anti-immigrant platform when he became major of my hometown. I actually sort of know him, he was my neighbor growing up. He's a rather unpleasant fellow, to be honest.

Josquius

Quote from: celedhring on August 29, 2015, 08:24:15 AM
Quote from: Tyr on August 29, 2015, 08:05:54 AM
Girl was tempting but went with 3rd one down for how wonderfully photogenic he is.

He's the right wing of our right wing party. He even ran on a FN-esque anti-immigrant platform when he became major of my hometown. I actually sort of know him, he was my neighbor growing up. He's a rather unpleasant fellow, to be honest.

That would explain the clearly fake smile.
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He's also freakishly tall (he actually used to be a professional basketball player).


Josquius

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The Larch

Quote from: Tyr on August 29, 2015, 02:43:48 PM
What a sad looking lady.

She's that guy's predecessor as head of PP in Catalonia. She has a pretty weird face. Too much surgery, I guess.


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