Europe-Flight and Plan

Corporate welfare-the enormous and myriad subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, tax loopholes, debt revocations, loan guarantees, discounted insurance and other benefits conferred by government on business-is a function of political corruption. Our European Social Republic will sweep away the opportunity and motive for such corruption because the Guilds themselves would devise the indicative economic plan which would order European economic activity, with no scope for particular interest groups to pursue a campaign of government capture.Perhaps the most damaging is the huge subsidisation of aviation. The price tag for consumers is held artificially low thanks to a taxpayers' subsidy. And if that's not enough - aviation is now the fastest source of carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change, and the effects of air pollution on public health are well documented. Complete European autarky would be a cold and lonely path, but a high degree of European self-reliance would be necessary were a planned European syndicalist economy to happen. Massive tariff walls, which usually have a corrupting influence themselves as people find ways to get around them, are not necessary if air miles have their true cost, world regionalization of markets would naturally occur. This in turn would allow Europe far greater control over its economy in order that it may implement the plan."The Queen Elizabeth II opened a giant, luxury terminal at London's Heathrow airport on Friday, despite security breaches by protesters opposed to expanding the world's busiest international air gateway. The soaring glass and metal Terminal Five, Britain's largest enclosed space, will be the new home of British Airways, channelling passengers past Gucci and Prada boutiques and a restaurant by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay." -Yahoo News 12/03/08-European Social Republicans should be opposed to such a development.By Comrade Dale Saxbey