Bart de Wever is a rightwing rich asshole.
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He's a silent racist. He was a party leader for Vlaams Blok and personally tried to ban hijabs many times. Then he became party leader for NVA and changed his strategy. He introduced authoritarian GAS fines which are fines that can be- and have been abused to target minorities. He worked his way up to PM so he could get the rich rightwing assholes in power. The "Arizona" government is one for the rich whites and he gains a lot of it.
I'm not poor and I am white. But I'll still answer your bullshit. Brussels and Anderlecht are much bigger immigrant destinations. Respecting poorer parts of the society does not make it poor. It just looks like that in statistics. Destroying nightlife and Antwerp culture, so you can put luxury apartments with a good view is not development. It's elitism.
So fuck him and fuck you for trying to spin this elitist bullshit.
Bart De Wever was never the chairman of Vlaams Blok. He's never been a member of Vlaams Blok/Vlaams Belang, which makes it kinda hard for him to have ever been their party leader.
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"Bart De Wever was not a member of the Vlaams Blok. He was critical of the party and its successor, Vlaams Belang, and has stated that he resisted offers to join the Vlaams Blok. Instead, he began his political career with the Volksunie party and later became a founding member of the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)."
What exactly do you mean with "VB to NVA".
If Bart de Wever was really into VB, then he would simply form a coalition with VB.
Aight. From r/Belgium2, which probably are major NVA voters. I'd gather that the main reasons would be: lower government spending (hello, Putin and Trump). Putting more people to work, by activating people that are long term sick while able to work. Activating people that are long term unemployed. Delaying retirement. Reducing taxes on working people so that the gap between working and not working becomes larger. Economic investments.
The majority of his voters are quite upset bout the capital gains tax that my vote has brought upon them. Since they view it as an extra tax on middle class. (It isn't, just sell 10k+index capital gains per year).
Nva also wants to reduce or even abolish inheritance tax. With a median net wealth of 250k euros PER ADULT. That is quite desirable. Within an aging population. Let's say every child gets about 350k euros in inheritance. If they are dummies and don't gift it properly then they pay 40k euros in inheritance taxes. (60k if it comes from one single parent, so let's say 40k).
It is mostly the middle class that votes for nva, for economic reasons, which is why they are so large.
I would like to see some dirt on them though. And any other Belgian political party. Always fun to see
They all probably are filling their own pockets one way or another, funny that le Pen fucked up big time for a mere 4-5 million euros of expense savings in 12 years time.
Bart De Wever was not a member of the Vlaams Blok.
Oh my. For as long as I remember I thought it was VB and not VU. I remember him being a racist cuck when he was still fat. I guess that's why I remember him being with VB for some reason.
NVA is better than VB. So there's that at least.
[reasons why people vote for NVA]
Yes these reasons are correct. I thought you meant why people voted for BDW specifically.
I however see almost all of those reasons as pure class welfare. They know how to play this game.
I would like to see some dirt on them though.
For privacy reasons I will not share most of the dirt I found, as most of it relates to the municipalities I lived at. But I found a lot of weird subsidies whenever NVA is in power using the subsidy registry: https://subsidieregister.vlaanderen.be/ords/xxsr/r/subsidieregister/home
Big cities are hard to look trough, but smaller municipalities are much easier. Look for wherever a LOT of money goes into megaprojects. Even if they seem altruistic in nature. Look up BTW numbers of these megaprojects and figure out who is on the board. 9 out of 10 there will be NVA party members on the board in NVA led municipalities. Compare this to municipalities with mayors of more "left" parties and you'll find that NVA really likes to have their members in all of these boards. Who would have guessed.
The BTW register also allows you to find a lot of loopholes (achterpoortjes) that are being abused. The last one I looked into was the Zoo of Antwerp. There are 2 legal Zoos of Antwerp. 1 to receive non-profit subsidies to run the whole goddamn park. The other one is a for profit that is raking in millions of euros in profits. Go figure.
They all probably are filling their own pockets one way or another, funny that le Pen fucked up big time for a mere 4-5 million euros of expense savings in 12 years time.
Politicians can't have too much money or it would be extremely suspicious. If you're going to commit fraud as a politician you should set up some schemes while in office like injecting yourself into the companies that you got the government to pay for. Then slowly disappear from the stage after your time and start slowly reaping in the profits. Trying to actively defraud the government is not allowed. But being a classy Belgian who just did their country/municipality a favor with "innovations" and "cultural projects" and that they got "lucky that it somehow started making money" is just perfectly fine. What a joke.
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Yes, everything I am saying here is based on high social mobility, high median net wealth and high minimum wage. I like my capitalism in the hands of many.
1 FTE should always allow someone to save up a good amount of money. The minister in Flemish parlement I voted for is investing in social housing now. Relieving pressure on renters from private options. I do want both public and private options, government doesn't need monopoly like in Singapore.
i view these things as trampolines, not as crutches.
Like at my work, newbie comes from a home where neither parent could work. Father is blind/deaf and mother takes care of him. Idk how they did it, but they own a house. I'm completely fine with that, I prefer to work than to be blind/deaf, by a lot.
But I've also been talking to an older guy who has no money at all, 57 years old, lives in social housing and didn't work for more than 5 years because "his knees hurt". Not a fan of him. His daughter starts life with the basic package because he never really tried.
But I'm very happy that his daughter has all the opportunity. She's educated and can choose her own path. (She can't move out until his pension or he will lose a lot of his monthly income).
We have an aging population, so it's fine I guess. Money to raise a kid.
Like I'm a fan of immigration not for the first generation but the second generation. That's the real investment. Even though nowadays first gen immigrants will be quite better, as education in the world has been drastically improving.
What our prime minister did first, was limit unemployment benefits to 2 years and increase the unemployment benefits in the first year. That's good. It needs to be insurance, not an early retirement alongside your other passive incomes.
I don't want people to hate rich people, I want them to become rich. I want them to feel good in the country they grew up with. View people as equals socially.
Personally I can't imagine not growing as a person when working 38 hours a week. If you don't learn anything, please change job. They are wasting your time.
But my wife has that choice. She's working part time as cleaner while learning Dutch. Now she's pregnant and for the time being she will just continue working part time as cleaner. It's nearby our home so it's very convenient. She pays basically no taxes, it's pretty good for us financially. She has a law degree from her country of origin, so she can likely just get a career option if she so wishes. But she prefers to focus on being a mom. Her choice. We'll get 250 euros per month for the kid. I'll pay 50 euros fewer taxes every month. We'll get a free stroller and car seat. Giving birth will be 300 euros. They'll give us 1200 euros at birth.
Personally I cannot understand the desire to not grow qualifications. Learning things is fun. It's very boring to go week in week out without learning anything.
But yes there are people that don't care. My wife can choose what she prefers. Both are adequate options. Spending more time with our kid is valuable. Honestly I think our aging population is because people work too much. My grandmothers didn't work, my mom worked part time. My wife's sisters and mom don't work.
So it's definitely a complex thing.
I don't think someone needs a job in order to learn things either. But it's quite useful. I hope she gets an opportunity for a different job that also is easily manageable with a family while also learning more things.
The good thing about cleaning is that she gets a good workout out of it. 4 hours per week day, it's social. She sees dogs etc. People are nice. (Not the old ones that can't speak English and are more of the funny old racist generation)
Basically, a country needs to be designed in such a way that when you're poor at age 57, it's your own choice.
It's an interesting story you shared. Seems like you've got it decently with your family. Happy to hear that!
I agree that learning can and should be fun and stimulated.
In the Netherlands we have the opposite problem actually, too many people have a higher education. Not enough practically schooled workers. We drastically need people to change to a "lower" education I'd we want to have plumbers, electricians, builders etc.
