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[kurupetos]

IMO, the government should stop charity and try help people get real work.

So how? Doing what? How to be funded?

With real jobs. Increase import tax & goods' transport (CO2) tax, arrest tax-evaders (lawyers, land developers, doctors, etc.) and remove foreign workers taking jobs locals could do. Also set a maximum salary threshold for public servants/government officials (elected or not).

Simple things that can solve the unemployment problem in no time.

[supporttheunderdog]

To create real jobs means having goods and/or services people want to buy. Nothing I have seen in your manifesto seems to address that. Taxing transport is in fact a disincentive to growth as it increases the costs of goods.

So what goods are we going to make or services to sell?

As for foreigners many like me are EU citizens who are entitled to work here.

[kurupetos]

To create real jobs means having goods and/or services people want to buy. Nothing I have seen in your manifesto seems to address that. Taxing transport is in fact a disincentive to growth as it increases the costs of goods.

So what goods are we going to make or services to sell?

As for foreigners many like me are EU citizens who are entitled to work here.

What manifesto? I am not RW (thank God!).

Transport tax on goods that can be produced here. Not on machinery, etc.

The problem is not services, but employees. Cypriots should be employed and not foreigners. That was clear in my previous post. Read it again.

We can restrict the movement of foreign workers, including EU workers, if they are taking the jobs of locals. Germany and the UK have done this for years. We have done nothing to prevent that.

[supporttheunderdog]

To create real jobs means having goods and/or services people want to buy. Nothing I have seen in your manifesto seems to address that. Taxing transport is in fact a disincentive to growth as it increases the costs of goods.

So what goods are we going to make or services to sell?

As for foreigners many like me are EU citizens who are entitled to work here.

What manifesto? I am not RW (thank God!).

Transport tax on goods that can be produced here. Not on machinery, etc.

The problem is not services, but employees. Cypriots should be employed and not foreigners. That was clear in my previous post. Read it again.

We can restrict the movement of foreign workers, including EU workers, if they are taking the jobs of locals. Germany and the UK have done this for years. We have done nothing to prevent that.

There was some facility to impose restrictions on workers from recently joined EU states but these could only be applied for a limited time which has now expired and there is no current bar on EU citizens working in eg the UK or Germany. That is the case since 2013. I think Cyprus has now missed that bus. Even in the UK it was only partly applied, which why so many Poles came over when Poland joined. I think Bulgarians and Romanians were affected, for a few years. Not now.