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....when compared to EU citizens

I was just talking to a Belgian expat who has been living here in Peru for four years just from unemployment welfare checks from his home government. He has never even worked in Belgium one day in his life. He worked in Ireland, then started acting lazy to ensure that he would get laid off. Since then he has been on unemployment travelling the world, living abroad. He says that the welfare amount even INCREASES overtime. He will probably "have to retire" at the age of 55

I asked him how I can sign up and he suggested I go to Texas to do something that warrants the death penalty, and then fly to Belgium and immediately go to the immigration office to claim asylum. He also suggested getting married to a Romanian and getting fired from a job there, and then collecting unemployment benefits from another EU country (apparently you can do this within any EU country). Belgium is said to have the best benefits though.

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Teal Lantern wrote:Sounds like productive EU tax payers are the ones drawing the short straw.

Hear hear...

I would much like to emigrate to a country where taxes are low and people don't get any free lunch (right after I got my free lunch from the cheap and high quality European universities that you barely have to pay for muahahaha).

There aren't many such countries, unfortunately. Hong Kong is the only one I know. The tax burden there is said to be about 15% so it's hard to imagine anyone is getting free lunch. Additional benefits: not paying for things like defence and shit like that. If they want to fight a war be my guest, but don't bother me with it.

Teal Lantern wrote:Sounds like productive EU tax payers are the ones drawing the short straw.

Not really. If there are more people than productive jobs, the surplus have to be paid for somehow, and what better way to pay for this guy than to have him live cheaply in a foreign country. At least he doesn't have to indulge in dysfunctional behaviors to qualify for welfare like he might in the Anglosphere. Besides, very few people in modern society are productive and most of them are poor and don't pay much tax. They are also likely to benefit from welfare themselves, since if they are hired to be productive they will immediately be fired whenever there is a more productive alternative, whereas parasitical employees hired for ulterior motives will not.