France and Germany want their cut of UK drug and pimp money

[Dry]

I don't know.
My guess is because we receive money for the harboring of the EU buildings, intitutions,...

[Bereta_Eder]

I wonder how Luxembourg is explained. You fear you're going to dirty their pavements when you're walking there, it's that squicky clean. And unless you have a hermes bag, you're nobody.

[Dauphin]

Makes sense. Should be excluded from the figures as it is misleading.

Luxembourg has a number of institutions too, and a small population to make the skew bigger.

[Dry]

A more recent and official version:
Belgium: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/mycountry/BE/index_en.cfm
Luxemburg: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/mycountry/LU/index_en.cfm

And yes, 66% of what Belgium gets is for EU administration, it goes up to 87% for Luxemburg

[Sava]

Sounds like the UK is a more fun place than France or Germany ...

Given a choice between the three, I'd probably go to Germany... just because of prostitution.



HOT DAMNH

The King George Brothel in Berlin opens at 4 PM, Monday through Sunday, excluding the Christmas Holidays. For €99 ($135) you can stay there until dawn

http://www.vice.com/read/a-visit-to-one-of-germanys-all-you-can-****-brothels-432

I may need to plan a trip to Germany

$135

some of my dates cost more than that

[Sava]

serious question:

Is anyone up for a destination poly meet?

Sadly, I'm the only person I know who has a stellar combination of free time and disposable income.

[Sava]

i'm not a big flyer of airplanes

what time of year has the lowest fares?

[Sava]

hmmmmm



well, there are 399,999 other women working in german brothels to choose from


edit: on second thought, i don't care

[Sava]

okay, so i got sidetracked reading brothel forums and reviews

from a review of a brothel in vegas:

I went here with my mom and friend for my birthday.

[Sava]

you guys gotta check some of these reviews out

We also got to check out the dungeon (where my mom asked about the "forced masturbation" chair)

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sheris-ranch-pahrump-2?hrid=V8p6JuJysXz5ZiHHX0lcJg

[Dinner]

Sava, your $135 only gets you in thedoor where you can watch the poll dancers. Anything else costs extra.

[Sava]

Sava, your $135 only gets you in thedoor where you can watch the poll dancers. Anything else costs extra.

wrong

try reading the link, doofus

[pchang]

I'm sure there are local rub and tugs where you can get a similar deal..............

[Sava]

handjobs do nothing for me

well, aside from foreplay

[Sir Og]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/05/eu-migrants-uk-gains-20bn-ucl-study

European migrants to the UK are not a drain on Britain’s finances and pay out far more in taxes than they receive in state benefits, a new study has revealed.

The research by two leading migration economists at University College also reveals that Britain is uniquely successful, even more than Germany, in attracting the most highly skilled and highly educated migrants in Europe.

The study, the Fiscal Impact of Immigration to the UK, published in the Economic Journal, reveals that more than 60% of new migrants from western and southern Europe are now university graduates. The educational levels of east Europeans who come to Britain are also improving with 25% of recent arrivals having completed a degree compared with 24% of the UK-born workforce.

It says that European migrants made a net contribution of £20bn to UK public finances between 2000 and 2011. Those from the original 15 EU countries, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain, contributed 64% – £15bn more in taxes than they received in welfare – while east European migrants contributed 12%, equivalent to £5bn more.

The research by UCL’s centre for research and analysis of migration was undertaken to “fill the void” in the debate on immigration in which the contribution of unrestricted migration from within the EU has become the centre of intense political and public concern.

Prof Christian Dustmann, co-author of the study and director of the centre, said: “A key concern of the public debate on migration is whether immigrants contribute their fair share to the tax and welfare systems. Our new analysis draws a positive picture of the overall fiscal contribution made by recent immigrant cohorts, particularly of immigrants arriving from the EU.”

He said that the educational qualifications of new migrants to Britain, especially from western and southern Europe, was now extraordinarily high and higher than any other EU country. He said the UK would have had to spend £6.8bn on education to build up the same level of “human capital”. The study shows that not only are European migrants more highly educated than the UK-born workforce but they are less likely to be in receipt of state benefits – 43% less likely among migrants in the past decade – and more likely to be in employment. They are 7% less likely to live in social housing.

The report was criticised as being “shallow” by David Green of the centre-right thinktank, Civitas. He said that by focusing on taxes and benefits, the report had missed out some vital costs.

“People who migrate tend to be young, better educated and energetic. They make good employees here but they are a loss to their own country. If other European countries fail to prosper because their brightest and best have travelled to the UK, we are all worse off,” he said.

Green added that the survey also disregarded the waste of human capital involved in too many university migrants working as baristas or waiters.

The Conservative immigration minister James Brokenshire, responding to the UCL report, said: “Since 2010, we have reformed benefits, healthcare and housing rules to make them among the tightest in Europe and we continue to see an increase in the number of British citizens in work. In the past, the majority of growth in employment was taken up by foreign nationals; in the last year, three-quarters of it was accounted for by UK nationals.

“We are creating a system that is fair to British citizens and those who want to come here legitimately and contribute to our national life, but which is tough on those who flout the rules.”

Can we get some of that tax money back as well please?