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beezlewax·

More Europe bashing here lately. Are you a bot?

> From my American perspective it looks like they are trying to lose

How're the tarrifs going?

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The difference is almost no American in HN will defend the crazy tariffs. But Europeans I have seen will go to the mat every single time explaining why Germany's economy growing a total of 7% for the 10 years between 2015-2025 isn't a problem actually. US grew almost 27% in the same time period.

This is only what I have noticed as someone from a continent that is not North American or Europe. The Europeans don't seem to see a problem with their stagnation.

You can't really compare the economy of countries on two different contintents just based off of a single macroeconomic metric and expect to capture anything. It's way more complicated than that

I think you can. You can completely distill it down to the simple reality that one is growing on the other is not. There's no clever nuance that handwaves that fundamental fact away.

As if we don’t have tariffs. My AliExpress packages are taxed over 100%

> As if we don’t have tariffs. My AliExpress packages are taxed over 100%

Is it contradicting - does it mean the tariff is "over 100%"?

English is not my first language.

A five euro package has:

€1.05 VAT

€3 duty per product category

€0.36 VAT on duty

€2 EU per package fee (per 1 November)

That is €6.41 in tax/duty/fees/tariffs whatever you may call it over a €5 value.

Apparently well enough that we copied them in europe too. There's now a 3 euro tariff on every package imported from outside the EU.

They're brainwashed, sadly it seems to also affect the smarter people too.

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