Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 02, 2014, 07:49:57 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 01, 2014, 09:54:42 PM

Ban Ki-Moon has criticized the Tymoshenko-trial. I'm not saying he could not be wrong or even lying, but where are your sources?

Ban Ki-Moon is from South Korea, an American puppet state.

Ban Ki-Moon is also the secretary general of the United Nations. He represents all the countries in the world. Where are your sources that Tymoshenko is corupt?

Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 02, 2014, 07:49:57 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 01, 2014, 09:54:42 PM

The share of GDP taxed in Russia is actually a little higher than the unweighted EU average. In the EU it is possible to voice dissent publicly without being punished.

The income tax in Russia is 13%, where as in some EU nations it can reach 61%. Energy giants like Gazprom and Rossneft are heavily taxed in Russia, and that's why the total tax revenue of Russia is higher.

Yes income tax in can be higher in Europe. In Russia VAT is 18%, in Europe it is between 15% and 25%. In total though, even if you remove the tax on energy companies in Russia from the picture, still EU countries Croatia and Romania are pretty much taxed at the same percentage of GDP.

Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 02, 2014, 07:49:57 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 01, 2014, 09:54:42 PM

Smaller countries have surprisingly large amounts of influence in the EU. As a puppet of Russia, all Ukrainian policy will be decided in Moscow. In the EU parliament, MEPs are directly answerable to their constituents and as such their positions depend more on their ideology than the country from which they are from.

Tell that to the Cypriots.

It's not only the Cypriots who are getting their money taken away, but everyone holding fiat. Besides, Cyprus was bankrupt, should they have let the banks collapse so that everyone lost all their money?

Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 02, 2014, 07:49:57 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 01, 2014, 09:54:42 PM

Borders and other immigration-stopping boundaries are immoral and not liberal at all. Immigration is a sign of more freedom, not less. Thinking you can stop homosexuality by just passing a law is naive, besides accepting it gives more personal freedom.

May be. But those are the internal issues within a country. The EU should stop pressurizing their member states to legalize everything.

Facepalm. Legalizing things is a good thing. In those cases where they are doing that they are doing the people of the EU a favor and saving them from being done over by their own governments.

What the EU should stop doing is wanting to regulate everything. That's what the EU should stop doing, not trying to stamp out ridiculous moral laws.