F... me! I should get into politics!
24-year-old YouTube blogger Phidias Panayiotou, who was elected as an independent MEP from Cyprus, has revealed how much money MEPs receive each month. He filmed a video in the meeting room of the EU legislature and posted it on TikTok.
https://video.nostr.build/72e5ef329a34bd3ec83946f8784cddb6658aec473ef2da28930a7c5affcb383f.mp4
I like this dude's balls! No homo. π
Cantillionaires... Don't forget, those working for the EU and it's agencies don't pay taxes or pension contributions etc.. that's just for the plebs.
I'm gonna run as an independent next cycle. Gimme that funny money!
While I hate all those parasites, AFAIK this is not true. They pay taxes (8k is after taxation), homeland taxes and pension contribution (3,5%)
They pay no local taxes like you or I as they are exempt.. see:
Article 12 of the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union
They do have a much smaller deduction called a "European Community Tax" and the salaries are net of this. As this is a tax they pay back to themselves, it's not really a tax.
True story that...
There is a German comedian that did the same a wile back, he also had some nice takes and stories to tell
Die Partei, yeah. From Titanic.
Beautiful
Somehow one of the most revealing books ever published slipped through the editorial of offices of one of the major publishing houses in New York and found its way into the bookstores of America in 1966.
Five years later I was meandering through a used bookstore and stumbled upon this giant book. I picked up the book, blew the dust off and opened it to a page where the author stated that:
"...[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. this system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations....
"It must not be felt that these heads of the world's chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers (also called 'international' or 'merchant' bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks. These formed a system of international cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful, and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks. this dominance of investment bankers was based on their control over the flows of credit and investment funds in their own countries and throughout the world. They could dominate the financial and industrial systems of their own countries by their influence over the flow of current funds though bank loans, the discount rate, and the re-discounting of commercial debts; they could dominate governments by their own control over current government loans and the play of the international exchanges. Almost all of this power was exercised by the personal influence and prestige of men who had demonstrated their ability in the past to bring off successful financial coupes, to keep their word, to remain cool in a crisis, and to share their winning opportunities with their associates."
https://www.thewayofcoherence.com/post/the-matrix-series-banksters-paradise-part-1-1
Quiet part out loud π
where does money comes from ? member states' treasury?
or ECB printing press in Frankfurt
