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Brexit - what should we have to pay?
BobQ
Posts: 11,181 Forumite
I sometimes hear people say that we have no obligation to pay anything when we leave. Is that argument sustainable?
Others accept we have obligations to pay for some things. So for example:
- that we must pay towards the pensions of EU employees who built up pension rights before the date we leave
- a share of the costs of relocating EU facilities in the UK to other EU27 countries
- a share of the costs of projects (such as road building) that the EU has agreed to build prior to serving Article 50.
Others suggest that we should counterbalance this with the right to benefit from the costs of projects we agreed to fund (ie that the EU should be obliged to contribute to building roads in the UK that were agreed before Article 50.
Others link any payments we make to the benefits that we will gain from them such as
- paying a share of the costs of EU research sponsorship if we continue to benefit from the existing arrangements
I would be interested in seeing some views on the subject of what we are obliged to pay, what it would be worthwhile agreeing to fund for mutual benefit, etc.
Others accept we have obligations to pay for some things. So for example:
- that we must pay towards the pensions of EU employees who built up pension rights before the date we leave
- a share of the costs of relocating EU facilities in the UK to other EU27 countries
- a share of the costs of projects (such as road building) that the EU has agreed to build prior to serving Article 50.
Others suggest that we should counterbalance this with the right to benefit from the costs of projects we agreed to fund (ie that the EU should be obliged to contribute to building roads in the UK that were agreed before Article 50.
Others link any payments we make to the benefits that we will gain from them such as
- paying a share of the costs of EU research sponsorship if we continue to benefit from the existing arrangements
I would be interested in seeing some views on the subject of what we are obliged to pay, what it would be worthwhile agreeing to fund for mutual benefit, etc.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
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