The unions have accepted the philosophy of the government, which claimed that we had the choice between cutting expenses and raising taxes. Yesterday they came up with the idea of taxation brackets for wages, the freezing of pensions and halting all privatizations until the crisis has finally subsided.

The union"s proposal is nothing less than a variation of the government"s proposal, while trying to make it look like they actually negotiated: "Let"s pretend that we tried to get something for the people and that we actually fought for them".

The professional associations did not revolutionize the national debate on how the administration is funded, even though Cezar Corâci the chairman of UGIR-1903, mentioned borrowing from the population as the third solution, instead of the proposed wage and pension cuts on one hand, and the hike of the current taxes and the creation of new ones, on the other hand.

Of course, borrowing from the population makes sense, but only as a stopgap measure which just extends the agony, hoping it would last long enough for the world economy to recover.

And what if the world crisis drags on?!

Greece and Spain are frightening Europe -, the problem now is keeping the stability of the European continent, rather than the recovery.

If the crisis continues, in the near future, we could find ourselves in a situation similar to the current one, when the budget revenues could no longer support the operation of Romania"s administrative apparatus.

In fact, it will be even worse - the government will borrow even more from the population, or will launch a moratorium and announce that it can"t reimburse the loan it took from the people.

Aren"t we forgetting something?

The state budget does not rely just on taxes.

Yes, VAT and earnings taxes are two major revenue sources for the budget, but