Confiscaciones masivas de los fondos privados de pensión en Europa.
People’s retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that don’t want to reduce spending or make privatizations. As most pension schemes in Europe are organised by the state, European ministers of finance have a facilitated access to the savings accumulated there, and it is only logical that they try to get a hold of this money for their own ends. In recent weeks I have noted five such attempts: Three situations concern private personal savings; two others refer to national funds.
The most striking example is Hungary, where last month the government made the citizens an offer they could not refuse. They could either remit their individual retirement savings to the state, or lose the right to the basic state pension (but still have an obligation to pay contributions for it). In this extortionate way, the government wants to gain control over $14bn of individual retirement savings.
The Bulgarian government has come up with a similar idea. $300m of private early retirement savings was supposed to be transferred to the state pension scheme. The government gave way after trade unions protested and finally only about 20% of the original plans were implemented.
A slightly less drastic situation is developing in Poland. The government wants to transfer of 1/3 of future contributions from individual retirement accounts to the state-run social security system. Since this system does not back its liabilities with stocks or even bonds, the money taken away from the savers will go directly to the state treasury and savers will lose about $2.3bn a year. The Polish government is more generous than the Hungarian one, but only because it wants to seize just 1/3 of the future savings and also allows the citizens to keep the money accumulated so far. [...]
Inspirados en el ejemplo argentino, Europa recupera la dignidad.
Instapundit dice que si se intentase hacer esto en EEUU, se verían políticos colgados de los faroles. Uno puede soñar...
Que hdp estos políticos, como roban a la gente para tapar sus propias cagadas. Pero claro, con el cuento del bien público...
ReplyDeleteSi a otros se les ocurre hacer los mismo convendría les leer esto, porque se vendría una ola de juicios después de este fallo:
http://www.clarin.com/politica/Quedo-fallo-rechaza-topes-jubilaciones_0_401959817.html
No se puede creer.
ReplyDeletepero ojo al piojo... miren de qué paises se trata.. países que hasta hace poco formaban parte de la URSS y tanto el gobierno como la poblacion están más acostumbrados a los abusos del poder... no creo que hagan esto nunca en Alemania... o en Francia... (sobre todo en Alemania.. se los comerían crudos!)
ReplyDeleteesta Dolores es una descocada...hasta ojo al piojo te dice!
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