Regardless of the result of the presidential election, the alt-right yet entered the mainstream. Her views were taken over by politicians of another parties, which took place before the 2023 parliamentary elections, and the conclusion of the current run is to complete this process by symbolically paying tribute to the main Nadwiślana faction alt-right. Karol Nawrocki He gave that tribute on his kneesRafal Trzaskowski – having a beer with Sławomir Mentzen just after a good chat.
In fact, the effect is very akin – standardization and popularization of views spread by Corvinists. Nawrocki just signed up for them, and Trzaskowski agreed with them in half, but in the eyes of voters, especially the younger ones, they both just gave neo-Korwinists Mentzen the legitimacy of average politicians, with whom 1 can disagree sometimes, but it is worth talking. This will have far-reaching, disastrous effects.
The Libertarian Confederate faction has long pursued a policy of moving the Overton window to the right, or space of discourse. During his talks with Mentzen candidates, he introduced to her the issues included in 8 commitments, completely normalising them. Since 2023, specified demands that mainstream parties have tamed and incorporated in their milder way into their programmes to appease right-wing voters were much more.
Commercialize Health
One of the demands of mentalists is commercialisation and privatisation of the wellness system. In the area of concretes, this comes down to the liquidation of the National wellness Fund and the conversion of it to respective competing entities. In this way, marketplace competition would become the foundation of the system, which would form the patient-insurer relation – or alternatively the customer-insurer. The strategy was already partially commercialized erstwhile it was allowed to NZOZ, but this marketplace concerns a lower level – the patient-provider.
To undermine the efficiency of NFZ is an old libertarian song. In fact, the NFZ is highly inexpensive to keep – it spends about 1% of its budget on its maintenance. Private funds in the US usually spend a fewer percent on administrative purposes. No 1 will deny the inefficiency of the full wellness strategy as such, but it is simply a consequence of under-funding alternatively than deficiency of competition. For the same money respective private entities would do even little for the wellness of Poles and Poles.
This does not change the fact that this proposal is gradually spreading. Privatization of medical care in Poland takes place quietly, in private medical offices. The 3rd Road in 2023 decided to de facto legalize this state, announcing impose on the NFZ the work to pay for private visits to specialists if the waiting time is longer than 60 days. This would undoubtedly make another increase in the prices of private medical services, which has been rising faster than general consumer inflation for a decade.
Interestingly, this is precisely the kind of task the Confederate made in the Sejm. At the end of last year, Members of the organization submitted a bill to the Marshal of the Sejm allowing the usage of outpatient specialist care in a non-NFZ entity erstwhile the waiting for aid is longer than 60 days. specified a visit would refinance NFZ. "The beginning of the marketplace to another parties is in real danger of immediate inflation of the prices of their services, since all costs paid by the patient will be reimbursed from public funds," he wrote in unequivocally critical comment Dariusz Dziełak, manager of the NFZ.
Eliminate ZUS
"PIT, CIT, ZUS, VAT, TVP and PZPN must be eliminated" – He appealed Sławomir Mentzen in 2023. It's his old bon mot, he frequently occurs in a different version, where TVP and PZPN happen PO and PiS. However, under the slogan “the liquidation of the Social safety Fund” lies, not the closure of the Plant itself, but the removal of the work to pay contributions, i.e. their voluntary status. The alleged voluntary ZUS for entrepreneurs is an old postulate of free marketers, which unfortunately returns like a boomerang.
This postulate besides picked up the PSL rather quickly, which took it into its program respective years ago. He never had much understanding, so the 3rd Way decided to civilize him a little. In her 12 guarantees, she placed the request to let for suspension of contributions. “We will introduce a vacation from contributions to the Social safety Fund for micro-entrepreneurs in financial problems,” we read on their page. As early as November 2023, the Confederacy submitted its own draft on this issue.
Unfortunately, this postulate has already actually fulfilled, although in the residual form – so far. 1 of the first reforms of the current coalition was the introduction of premium holidays for entrepreneurs that could be utilized for the first time at the end of last year. all entrepreneur can choose 1 period of the year erstwhile ZUS will pay for it contributions to pension insurance. The company manager must then pay only the wellness contribution.
Release officials
The challenge of industriousness and the sense of the existence of government officials in general is an iron request for free-marketers. For many years, they had taken him on banners of various anti-systemists, specified as Marek Jakubiak (then Kukiz’15), who in 2018 went to election for president of Warsaw with the slogan of dismissal one third the capital administration. He would have gone further, of course. Sławomir Mentzen.
“In the first place, like Elon Musk, I would have walked in with this sink into the Ministry of Finance building, fired all the management, then fired two-thirds of the officials and made the biggest taxation revolution always seen” — stated in 2023 on Radio Zet.
Of course, we have not seen (yet) any wave of firing officials. It's just that another teams coming to power realize that it wouldn't end well for the state's efficiency. But, as with the commercialisation and privatisation of wellness protection, here too, we are dealing with the implementation of Confederate kitchen ideas through doors. Public administration is not peculiarly slimming, but hungry. Further government teams usage wage frost in the public domain – the PO-PSL coalition did so, and the United Right besides utilized it.
By service data Demagog, the basic amount of remuneration in civilian service, according to which the circumstantial salaries of officials count, did not increase even by a buck in 2009–2018. For a full decade it was precisely the same, or PLN 1873.84. A further frost has struck SC officials since the pandemic – in the period 2020-2022 the base amount was PLN 2031.96. Between 2009 and 2015, the average wage in the civilian service corps fell by 0.1%, although the economy as a full increased by 16%. As a result, expenditure on administering the country is among the lowest in the EU, according to data Eurostat reached 4.9% of GDP in 2023. The EU average is 5.9 percent.
No taxation increases
The latest act of the unfortunate Confederacy process took place during 2 discussions between Sławomir Mentzen and Nawrock and Trzaskowski. Although the second did not kneel down and sometimes disagreed, on a key economical issue, i.e. to veto all laws raising taxes and fees, he put him in a symbolic vertical position, saying, "I think we can agree here."
How do we increase backing for wellness care, make a meaningful housing programme and proceed with the most linear taxation strategy in the OECD? hard to say. This was noted by economist Ignacy Morawski in his regular analysis for Business Pulse: "We are building Scandinavian Poland for Anglo-Saxon taxes".
"Poland already has a higher rate of public spending – i.e. their relation to GDP – than the Nordic countries on average. But we have much lower incomes and politicians promise to reduce them further," the analysis says. As a result, the Polish budget deficit reaches little than 6% of GDP, which will begin as shortly as next year erstwhile the European Commission starts to anticipate Poland to implement the excessive deficit procedure. 1 fortunate thing is, she's been out of the arms spending.
And that's how this frog cooks, 1 minute after the election. inactive in 2023 it seemed impossible that Liberals would make Government with the Confederation. By 2025, this is simply a very interesting idea. At least that's what Radosław Sikorski said in his interview with RMF FM on May 26, or 2 days after beer with Mentzen – so he had time to sober up.
“He wrote that he does not want to be, as a Confederate, a PiS appetizer, and here may be the key to these delicate comments that he wants to gain coalition ability not only on the right. It seems to me a very interesting concept" – stated Vice-candidate Sikorski in conversation with Tomasz Terlikowski.
Yes, it is. Even more frightening.
