▲ 398 ▼ Italy shocks banks with 40 percent windfall tax for 2023 (www.aljazeera.com) submitted 3 years ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] traveler01@lemdro.id -9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) The debt looked like this well before the energy crisis and it grew to over 100% under right wing government: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ESP/spain/debt-to-gdp-ratio Current government was hit by Covid but they actually managed to lower it in 2021. And I'm of course not saying that Spain is economically in better situation than Germany over all, just that this government managed current crises pretty well and got inflation and GDP under control faster than them and most other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] traveler01@lemdro.id -10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 3 years ago Sure, because higher taxes fuck over people's lives but inflation, recession, unemployment and high costs of living do not. Just look how happy everyone is in UK with their current cost of living crisis. Not raising taxes sure worked out great for them... permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 point 3 years ago Also, I'm not Lemmy. Don't know why would you generalize like that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 point 3 years ago (3 children) The debt looked like this well before the energy crisis and it grew to over 100% under right wing government: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ESP/spain/debt-to-gdp-ratio Current government was hit by Covid but they actually managed to lower it in 2021. And I'm of course not saying that Spain is economically in better situation than Germany over all, just that this government managed current crises pretty well and got inflation and GDP under control faster than them and most other countries. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] traveler01@lemdro.id -10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 3 years ago Sure, because higher taxes fuck over people's lives but inflation, recession, unemployment and high costs of living do not. Just look how happy everyone is in UK with their current cost of living crisis. Not raising taxes sure worked out great for them... permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 point 3 years ago Also, I'm not Lemmy. Don't know why would you generalize like that. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] traveler01@lemdro.id -10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 3 years ago Sure, because higher taxes fuck over people's lives but inflation, recession, unemployment and high costs of living do not. Just look how happy everyone is in UK with their current cost of living crisis. Not raising taxes sure worked out great for them... permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 point 3 years ago Also, I'm not Lemmy. Don't know why would you generalize like that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 3 years ago Sure, because higher taxes fuck over people's lives but inflation, recession, unemployment and high costs of living do not. Just look how happy everyone is in UK with their current cost of living crisis. Not raising taxes sure worked out great for them... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 point 3 years ago Also, I'm not Lemmy. Don't know why would you generalize like that. permalink fedilink source parent