The American Chamber of Commerce welcomes the Hungarian government’s tax plans but urges additional steps to improve the country’s overall competitiveness, AmCham told MTI on Friday.
There are several positive components of the planned tax system changes, but much more would be needed in order to close the gap in competitiveness between Hungary and other countries, the chamber said in its statement.
AmCham noted the latest ranking of the Switzerland-based World Competitiveness Centre IMD showing Hungary to have slipped to 45th place this year compared to 38th in 2008. IMD also said that Hungary had poor prospects of recovery.
Hungary is also lagging behind in Central and Eastern Europe, AmCham said, noting that the burden of tax and contributions is 5-6 percentage points higher than in other countries in the region.
AmCham welcomes the planned restructuring of the tax system, the cuts of taxes on wages and the scrapping of six tax types, but regrets the planned introduction of four new taxes. It also regrets that instead of scrapping the solidarity tax the government in effect plans to incorporate it in the corporate tax.
AmCham also urges more concrete measures the government should take to combat corruption and whiten the economy.
Who the fu_ck are the damned Yankees and their meddling trade offices telling anyone else how to run their exconomy? The Americans are the world’s biggest liars and hypocrites, bar none.
Imagine America as a giant clumsy robot, with a small Jewish guy at the controls.
Nyalasi, Godot, rather than me comment on what could perhaps be considered your introspective views, I would suggest that it might do Hungary some good once in a while to listen to other peoples opinions rather than make easily avoidable mistakes. No-one is trying to run Hungary, just advise Hungary on how it could improve it’s current economic situation and outlook.
But hey, there is always the option of screwing it all up and then blaming someone else.
Hungary needs to get tough on corruption. Really tough. I mean dead bodies hanging from lamp posts with signs on them: “I stole from the Hungarian people”.
Now that would be a good start. As long as anything goes without consequences, there’s no hope to recover.
Ahhh, Godot, once again the voice of liberal diplomacy.
JD, you take the cake on this here blog for always saying the opposite of what the consensus is. Listen, the world does not need the Dumb (Damned?) Yankees to ‘advise’ them on militarty or economnic matters. Why not? ‘Cause the Americans don’t rightly know shi_t (if they ever did, that is).
In matters of the military, they are the most incompetent has-been superpower that ever flew in the Milky Way. Yankee-doodling GI Janes and GI Joes are, for the most part, are unmotivated drunken drug users on cushiony G-payroll. As to the Yankee ‘military adviser,’ personally I would rather listen to your average Southern Albanian mountain goat for useful advice.
And as to the economy, if you think that the “Obama Plan” is going to rescue that sinking goliath, you need medical help.
@Nyalasi. It’s ironic how here, in a forum for foreigners who are interested in HU, you go out of your way to be offensive. As to meddling, its even more ironic that your own advise doesn’t seem to apply to yourself.
@Godot. What the heck does a robot and a jew at the controls have to do with the price of rice in China? You sound like a moron.
Nyalasi: you really are a stupid inbred moron: I’m guessing that your mum and dad are also brother and sister…
That aside, I cannot allow your comments about the American military to pass without comment. Like a lot of Magyar retards who whitter on about Triannon and greater Hungary etc, I’m guessing you have never served in a modern professional army (as aside to the bunch of useless conscripts Hungary had until recently).
The American forces were indeed a bid too fond of cannabis in the ’80s. The first Gulf War cured them of that (and a determined effort to clean out their system). Today’s American military are the most formidable fighting force ever seen on this world. Think about it: almost every single American soldier has seen active service in the last 5 years (more than in WW2). They have the best kit (ever).
I used to train with them in’90s and have seen the transformation. Fúck with them at your peril.
PS You are still a cúnt.
Collins, Collins, the Yankee Dinosaur!?
“I cannot allow your comments about the American military to pass without comment.”
Well, Collinsman, you can allow or disallow all you like, but the fact remains that the present garbage-class Yankee soldiers-4-hire are, for the most part, unmotivated full-time boozers and drugged-out druggies on cushiony government payroll. Many of them turned out to be torturers and murders, making honest, decent, hard working Americans also hated throughout the world.
“I’m guessing you have never served in a modern professional army.”
MY NOD IN FULL AGREEMENT: That is true, indeed. I was pretending to be a soldier in the US Army, and spent 10 months in ‘Nam back in 1972-73. I never considered it to be anything like a stint in a “professional” army, however. Those would be more likely the North Korean, Iranian, Venzeuelan, Russian, and Chinese armies of today. Just not the best Uncle Sam could still muster, unfortunately.
“Today’s American military are the most formidable fighting force ever seen on this world.”
BUT I SAY: There are no BIGGER LOSERS IN UNFORM TODAY than members of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. They are so inept, North Korea by itself could teach them a hard lesson.
“Fúck with them at your peril.”
Nothting will happen to you if you do, as the Yanks are everybody’s favorite targets. Mess with them, and then you can brag about it to the world. But otherwise, we are in full agreement.
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Norman Wisdom is considered a comic genius in Albania. They have erected a statue in his honor.
I know there are conflicting views on this forum
about the strengths and weaknesses in the armies of different nations.
Trouble is, everything is made too easy these days
and people are only motivated by self-gratification.i.e. “What’s in it for me?”
Soldiers/Sailors take drugs and booze. What’s new?
Godot. What is the name of that stunted Jew at the controls of the American machine?
World finance is in a mess. Fat executives in banks and financial institutions paying themselves too much money. And, lending huge sums of money to people and businesses that ultimately will fail to pay it back. Accountability across the board for those who transgress is needed. Unfortunately, in Hungary, this is half the population. But scrapping the MSZP government and then putting them on trial for their misdemeanors would be a start and help placate the bloodthirsty crowd?
It costs 13,000$ to hire someone in magyar orszag. But it fully costs 22,000$ to actually hire them with taxes, government contributions etc. Can this work? No way Jose. And there is no excuse for it. The magyarok lived thru the communism but they wont let it go! A typical magyar goes to the US and is worth one million$ after 20 years work. In hungary, he doesnt have a chirke tacony.
Nyalasi, you make a very inciteful point regarding the competency of the US military. According to the US army’sown data, the US army lost every battle in which it was evenly matched numerically in the WW2; it is not a professional army in the sense commonly accepteed; committed war atricites beyond any other military in WW2; 15% of the military went missing; failure to defeat the japanese necessitating the use of atomic weapons on civilians; eisenhower allowing 2.5 million german POW’s to die from starvation while in his command. The US Army even published a study possibly explaining the lack of efficacy and went so far as to blame baseball and football as the cause whereas other militaries were more improvisational due to soccer.
You ommitted “agent orange”. That deadly toxin the Yanks used in Vietnam.
Americans eat apple and pumpkin pie in large amounts
and swallow hamburgers by the bucket load. They are the fattest nation on earth. If they continue their gluttony (a deadly sin in its own right)I’m sure they will self-explode. A sort of spontaneous combustion that sends them to an early grave.
The Chinese limited the number of children per family because of their huge population.
Perhaps the Ysnks might impose a weight limit of say, maximum 75 kilos. Or, base the weight limit on a kilo/pound to height ratio.
Obama is painfully thin so perhaps the president might set a precedent in the dietary intake of his
fat populus. In so doing, they might win more gold medals at the next Olympics and improve the health of the nation as well.
Why do people always have to generalis, like “The Aamericans are fat” and so on ?
Of course there are a lot of fat Americans, but there also are a lot of fat Hungarians.
My Hungarian wife told me two jokes:
It is easier to jump over a typical Hungarian than to walk around him …
The Russian men drink themselves to death, the Hungarian men are cooked to death by their wives …
Several of my neighbours here in the Hungarian village could be called “typical Americans” and all of them have diabetes in varying degrees. They are pensioners like me but their wives cook and they eat like having to work 12 hours a day in a mine , csülök, bab gyulas, szalonna and zsir …
Seems I’m really lucky that my wife likes to cook “light”
Wolfi. Obesity in America is no joke. Diabetes is a major problem in young and old.
I am not fond of of the “workaday” Hungarian food.
It is “stodgy” and “lifeless” much like English cuisine. (If you can call it that!)
Pig meat is in abundance and every other household slaughtered their pet for Christmas.
One of my friend’s neighbors had a 40 kilo pig stolen. I think there is a nursery rhyme about someone stealing a pig?
A varied diet is important. I have a light breakfast and lunch. But certainly have the “full montmorency” in the evening.
In fact, feeling quite peckish now, so oft I jolly well go to search out some “scram”!
@MissCalorie:
You are absolutely right about the dangers of obesity – I just read to my surprise that the Germans are the fattest (and laziest) right now in Europe …
More OT:
My wife uses a lot of chicken, sometimes beef (for her pörölt) and sometimes “szüzpecsenye”, but not too often – always accompanied by a lot of vegetables and a salad…
Wolfi, as you probably know, the average life
expectancy for a Hungarian male is just 59 years
old, so simply to reach normal pensionable age is
a feat. At least they outlive the pigs.
And you’re right about the diet vs Americans. It’s
no better here, arguably worse in a sense – the
only reason it’s such a talking point in America
are the healthcare costs. Whereas here everyone
knows the health system won’t help you much
anyway.
Tom, Tom the piper’s son
Stole a pig and away did run;
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went crying down the street.
B.Ú.É.K. I say to Benny and all other overweight/underweight Hungarians/foreigners here!
This is why sport is so important. Americans get fight also because
they play american football, baseball, and golf. All of these sports
promote obesity. I am saddened that soccer participation in
magyarorszag is in decline. Not a good sign. You got to be lean to
play futball.
Some “dodgy” rhyming in that nursery ditty: Tom the Piper’s Son. Still, young children at the age of five wouldn’t notice.
Trouble is teenagers in most countries have trouble reading and writing and they wouldn’t notice either.
Ice hockey, baseball, basketball, American football – all stink. I despise these “games”. Soccer and rugby and horse racing and hopscotch are much more worthwhile enterprises.
Tom Thumb smaller than many
Except for a dwarf called, Benny!
xxx
The rhyme makes a little more sense if “eat” is
pronounced “ate” and “beat” pronounced “bate”… and
perhaps “street” pronounced “strate”. I really don’t
know about the last one, but the first two are still
pronounced this way in parts of Ireland and perhaps
were the original pronunciation in England (need to
go back to Shakespeare times).
The rhyming is perfectly adequate. Don’t have to go back to Shakespeare to confirm that.
There is internal rhyme in the third line with
“eat” and “beat” and, although “street” at the end of the fourth line is spelt differently, it does rhyme.
I have used “rhyme” and “line” in one of my sentences which I think is called “assonance”?
Oxford and Cambridge scholars might be pedantic as far as “rhyming” is concerned? I am open-minded.
Thank you very much for reminding me of the Tom, the Piper’s Son nursery rhyme, anyway!