[ArkVark]

The EU is not a great place for innovation, period. Here are the major problems:

1. No common language

2. Incredibly high taxes, particularly sales taxes

3. Unfinished transition out of Communism in many Eastern Countries

4. Preference for cheap illegal labor instead of automation

This could be solved by:

1. Formalising an 'EU English' language so that schools teaching it can open up around the continent and families can move from one country to another without having to pay for extortionate international schools

2. Eliminate payroll taxes, limit sales taxes to a maximum of 10%. Deport all illegal immigrants (who are huge burdens on the State and society) and raise pension ages to 70 in order to save money. Limit bachelor degrees to the top 20% of the population and Master's degrees to the top 10%, to encourage people into the workforce earlier in life. Raise taxes on land and pollution.

3. Limit EU funding for countries like Bulgaria that have not transitioned to modern Democracy or Bureaucracy.

4. Withdraw from the UN convention on refugees, deport all illegal immigrants, pay and help North African countries to guard their own coastlines, and replace migrants with robots and automation.

This will immensely boost the living standards of the average European, but hurt bureaucrats and old-money.

[j-pb]

Immigration is NOT the issue. Corrupt government and corporatocracy is.

With all those subsidies going to coal, oil, cars, planes and whatnot, we could pay and educate all the immigrants a thousand fold, and make them a super producive labour force.

You're gonna be a kick ass employee if you're motivated enough to risk your life and travel for years, for education and a better job.

[ArkVark]

The economic migrants that have travelled to Europe illegally are mostly illiterate and with few skills. They are consistently borne out to be at the bottom of society and over-represented on welfare rolls and jails. Essentially they will form a permanent underclass in Europe and a forever burden.

They come into Europe to work on huge farms owned by wealthy Europeans. Here is an example - essentially all of the manual labour in these towns is illegal:

https://www.dw.com/en/spains-sea-of-plastic-where-europe-get...

Without these workers the production would be automated and picked by robots (providing jobs for European engineers, technicians, developers). When you can pay someone $2/hour, with their lives subsidies by the taxpayer, there is no justification for robots.

The most dastardly action performed by the ruling class of Europe is to bring in millions of exploitable workers and claim they are doing it on the basis of human rights.

[jarenmf]

That's just complete bs! most migrants are escaping humanitarian crisis caused in the first place by the west!

[PlasticTank]

Sure, it's not like the current lines of conflict haven't existed for hundreds of years or anything. This reductionist mentality is really starting wear thin.

[cma]

>Withdraw from the UN convention on refugees

How is it illegal labor if it labor from refugees under the legal convention?

[Denvercoder9]

This reads more like a (ultra-)right-wing party program than a substantiated plan to increase innovation.

[flak48]

Yep it reads like a xenophobic copypasta that can be used in any context just by changing the first line of the comment

[ricohboy]

>lower taxes

>deport --illegal-- immigrants

"ultra" right wing

Low taxes and people valuing the rule of law is not "ultra right wing"

[Denvercoder9]

Repeated mentions of deporting illegal immigrants and withdrawing from the UN convention on refugees are typically only found in ultra-right-wing party programs in Europe.