Those who support this thesis should think twice considering the latest taxation European statistics: while Romanians complain that they pay too much to the state, overall it’s just a little more than the fourth part of the economy revenues, a lot less than the Westerners, who must part with no less than 40% of their income.
If we were to go with the trend, and give the state almost half of the money, we’d probably have enough resources to build motorways, to support the railways, and even for decent education and healthcare systems. That is, if we don’t steal our own hat, a thing that Romanians are best at.
It’s stealing our own hat when we’re asking better wages on the edge of a crisis, when making accounting tricks to hide even the last cent from taxation, but also when wasting Government spending on electoral baits. It’s nothing else but stealing their own hats when hauliers complain about bad roads but they overload their trucks, or when railwaymen ask for more money but don’t expose well-bribed controllers from their ranks.
Paying as little as in Romania, we can’t have motorways like Germany, railways like the French and ports like the Dutch. So, instead of throwing stones from the side of the playing field, those who want to make business in Romania should play by the rules and even try to change for the better a thing or two. If the state does too little, complains mean stealing one’s hat if there’s no effort to correct the wrongs.
