Already around 2014 I realized that the government created under the leadership of the Civic Platform could not be good. In October 2023, however, 1 could hope that it would be at least better than the nightmare second word of the Law and Justice. The bar was not set besides high, actually it was adequate to lift the leg somewhat to not even rub it.
After little than six months, it can be concluded that the Liberal government's actions with appetizers have surpassed the boldest expectations of pessimists. If I were writing a political fiction communicative at the end of last year about the first months of the fresh PO government, many events from the first half of 2024 would not even happen to me. And even if they did, they'd be out of it as far-reaching. However, a good communicative in this genre should not only surprise, but besides be a bit credible. The reality of specified an work is no longer there due to the fact that it cannot be put on the shelf. Unfortunately.
In order to improve humor – mostly my own – I decided to summarise the achievements of the current ruling coalition, specifying its leading features.
If poorness is bad, then I guess poorness is bad.
Instead of fighting poverty, the Polish government decided to fight the poor. If the mediocre are eliminated, the poorness itself should vanish – in fact, it's logical, which is why in accordance with this strategy the rulers went to work.
First, they decided to reconstruct 5% of VAT to basic food products, which was facilitated by the predecessors who extended the 0 % rate by the regulation. erstwhile the Law had a majority, it did not burn to regulate this issue for longer by means of the Act, as it itself intended to reconstruct 5% VAT on food. For the record, no 1 would blame me for being blind to 1 eye.
This does not change the fact that there was no real request to reconstruct VAT for key food products. This was explained by the request to get the budget for the expenditure ahead of us – mainly arms. Anyone who knows a small bit about taxes would have come up with a fewer much better ways of getting these about 10 billion PLN than raising indirect taxes – and this for food.
The government's latest thought is to step distant from the energy cost shields. The energy crisis is expected to be over, so the request to support households in billing has died out. Since July, tariffs will inactive be partially frozen, although less, and people at hazard of energy poorness will receive peculiar vouchers.
Unfortunately, as Jakub Sokołowski of the Institute for Structural investigation calculated, the vouchers are adequate to cover half the price increase. In the next year, we are already facing a full rate market, although housing will shortly be covered by the EU carbon emanation allowance system, which will be peculiarly felt by residents of buildings not connected to central heating – mainly little prosperous ones.
It's entrepreneurs that build prosperity.
At the same time, we see completely unjustified bows towards natural persons doing business. The Sejm has just passed a vacation bill for entrepreneurs, which will cost little than PLN 2 billion per year. It's expected to be small, so much of an action calculated exclusively to refine its electorate.
Entrepreneurs already pay importantly lower contributions than employees, and statistically they are the best-paid social group in Poland. Yes, there are besides entrepreneurs in difficulty, but the monthly exemption from contributions will not aid them – it would aid them to link contributions to income, but others who would gotta pay more will not agree to it.
The only consequence of this unfair privilege will be the simplification of already undervalued contributions by 8 percent per year. And further encouraging the transition from position to fictional company. However, in the negative, we inactive have plans to reduce the wellness contribution of entrepreneurs and introduce the amount free in the taxation of Belka, another bow towards the saving mediate class.
Progress Yes, but from time to time
Everyone's a bit of a hypocrite due to the fact that nobody's as cool as they seem to be. That is why we are rather tolerant of our own hypocrisy and others. The problem arises erstwhile a individual completely ceases to announcement whether his actions are at least minimally compatible with his views. Unfortunately, our elite of power can change their head from week to week, and it does not lose their excellent well-being.
The best example of course is the Green Deal, which was carried out on a pedestal in the times of the Law and is now completely changed. Poland 2050 was so eco-friendly that in the autumn it planned to build windmills right below the fence, and now it has arranged for the removal of the taxation on combustion cars from the Polish KPO.
There were adequate farmers protesting that the EU's agricultural policy would besides cease to be attractive. abruptly almost all political options began to convince that they had actually always been against climate policy, and its current form is the responsibility of the others.
An different volt is besides seen in the issue of the Polish-Belarusian border. The “Pisowski fence” has been considered a manifestation of pure evil, now more of a modernisation. In opposition, the Liberals resented the pushbacks, now boasting of the seal of the border with Belarus. It's on the wallpaper. even mined, Not even the most agile and courageous immigrant.
By the fall there was opposition besides on the banners of women's rights – this year it became problematic even to vote on passing laws liberalising abortion rights to work in committee.
Learn from the Worst
It's amazing at all how rapidly and efficiently the fresh power jumped into the old one's shoes. It turned out that Kaczyński's shoes matched Tusk as well. The issue of the Polish-Belarusian border is the most awesome example, but in others 1 can choose. Bending laws and procedures to get the institutions out of the hands of the enemy, treating the public media as their own cynical management of social sentiments, including escalating against (own) government policies, pushing blame on predecessors and misappropriating them, even if they were criticized earlier, we learned, among another things, that 800+ was thanks to the civilian Coalition.
Nor should we forget the cynical usage of abroad policy for national policy purposes. The issue of money from the KPO has been played in a devastating way for social assurance in the EU, with the full assistance of the European Commission. The money flowed over the Vistula River without reaching any milestone, so the right gained the crowning proof that Brussels played to change power in Poland. On the another hand, the hesitant could see that the European Commission is not an impartial unit of rules in the associate States, but a platform to advance the interests of the strongest political options in Europe.
One can guess how long this will affect the support of Poles and Poles for further integration, climate policy and assurance in the EU institutions on the Vistula River. But who cares now.
Peripheral complex
PiS politicians are known for their megalomania and belief in the size of Poland. Liberals vice versa – they are characterized by their micromania and a complete deficiency of religion in the origin of the Polish state. atomic power plants may have serious countries specified as France or Slovakia, but this will not work in Poland. The Central Communication Port is besides expensive, unnecessary, besides big, and there will be quite a few work to do. Let's focus on the sidewalks, or the roads, possibly it'll work out.
This peripherality complex was besides perfectly presented by 4 ministers who decided to evacuate to the European Parliament little than six months after their oath. It's not just money, but it's definitely money. simply for these people to leave key positions in the Polish government to become a private MP in the EP is simply a completely natural decision, they see nothing unusual about it, for them it is like social promotion.
Our electorate is only a hard electorate
One of the worst features of written power was constantly heating up a hard electorate utilizing simple as a cep, but alternatively violent plays. The constant conviction that Tusk is simply a German performing tasks for the Kremlin, and the Platform is actually the vestibule of hell, not only destroyed the level of public debate in Poland, but besides led to real tragedies – specified as the suicide of the boy of MP Filiks.
The fresh power almost from the march besides began to caress its toughest electorate, wasting human resources, time and public attention to launch at the same time 3 investigative commissions, although it was known from the beginning that the most sensible one, Pegasusian, was. Members of the government are wasting all their airtime on hitting opponents, so we did not discuss the problems of self-government at all during the run before the elections – and we do not talk about European issues at all before the very crucial European elections.
Such a policy tied hands with the government on reforming the country, as it automatically made the president a clear enemy, so as a result, it is hard to number on its signature in any more controversial matter. With all the deeper reforms you gotta wait at least until mid-2025, unless the PiS candidate wins again, then you will be able to forget them at all. But he can't win, the PiS is finished, so we can regulation like he's gone. A superb move, a policy worthy of the best strategists.
Maybe that's good. If the ruling have only ideas as good as Credit 0% or a simplification in the wellness contribution for entrepreneurs, then in fact they better not introduce them.
