Never mind Brit
Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structu..._Cohesion_Fund
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiona...European_Union

You're wrong. You are assuming that there need be a supranational organization with sole responsibility of transfering funds, taking from one place and pouring to another. Collecting federal taxes and redistributing them is not the only way of transfering money from richer to poorer regions.


Considering Scottish independence, it's controversial that your nation state isn't really that stable, that apparently it's open to same weaknesses as supranational states and that in fact, you can't depend on everyone to look after you and yours, which was your chief argument against supranational states, in this case EU.
You cannot simply magic money out of thin air, it must come from somewhere - if the EU does not become a federal Union it will not raise direct taxes, and the Commission will still have to go to member nations (Germany) to ask for money. This is the issue - the current system DOES NOT WORK, as evidence by the fact that Greece is now in systemic collapse, never mind decline.

Why isn't Cornwall is systemic collapse, or Wales? The answer is that the central government takes in taxes and distributes them, and richer regions automatically give more tax because they have more wealth.

For the last twenty years the British Left has been resoundingly pro-Euro, you just have to look at BBC coverage in 2007 and 2012 to see that the arguments now being made are not born of natural scepticism.

Never mind Britain being unstable - government in Greece and Italy have collapsed.