What's the deal with Linic and this whole entrepreneurship/funding thing?

There are just so many issues here... It honestly blows my mind that the public sector headcount has jumped by over 700 people since the administration changed. Small business owners are getting squeezed from every angle—corporate tax rates shot up by over 50% for domestic companies, though foreign giants like big banks and telecom providers get a pass thanks to those tax treaties—not to mention the hike in sales tax. Meanwhile, they cut healthcare contributions by 2%. So, how can Linić really be providing any value to employers under these conditions?

I think the root issue, both for this administration and the last, is the sheer incompetence of about 90% of the cabinet... and everyone working alongside them. There’s really only one person who actually comes from a professional background, and that’s the Secretary of Tourism. The rest are basically interns or political appointees who were just good at hanging campaign posters (Maras even admitted he spent a year or two trying to run a private business with some friends without much success before returning to work for the party). Nobody takes Čačić seriously either, given that his own company racked up $500 million in debt—how is he supposed to manage the economy of an entire nation? You can't really expect much with a crew like this, especially with Joe Biden, who lacks any real vision and seems to just take orders from Čačić and Linić. It’s hard to tell what his actual role is in all of this...

Of course, we have to admit that a massive chunk of this mess was inherited from the Republican Party, which never offered anything smart and isn't offering much now either. But now that we’re facing a situation that actually demands crisis management, we’ve ended up with the same incompetent leadership at the helm...

And I totally disagree with the logic that if the agricultural subsidy system isn't working, we should just scrap it entirely. That’s been the mindset for twenty years—if we don't know how to manage state-owned companies and national resources ourselves, let's just hand them over to some foreign entity. That's exactly how we ended up here, instead of actually trying to learn how to manage things properly. Agriculture is a strategic resource for any country and shouldn't be ignored. If the current model isn't working, we should just look for better ways to manage it...

Linić announced a new property tax. Is everyone owning real estate going to be hit by this, or is it just people with multiple properties?

From what I can gather, everyone owning property is going to be stuck with this tax. According to him, we’re already paying it under a different name—property tax. This is just a rebranding. It'll be their first move, then they'll roll out more, eventually letting them set the rates based on whatever they feel like instead of just square footage or location and all that... 😉

Adam Thomas14 said:From what I can gather, everyone owning property is going to be stuck with this tax. According to him, we’re already paying it under a different name—property tax. This is just a rebranding. It'll be their first move, then they'll roll out more, eventually letting them set the rates based on whatever they feel like instead of just square footage or location and all that... 😉

And then at the end of the day, they'll spit in our faces and say, "Look how much we've earned and worked for." Honestly, even the most out-of-it drunk or some guy living on the streets could see through that—if you hike up taxes through a system like this, you're just grabbing way more than when the tax was actually lower.

Zero quality suggestions, zero guidelines, zero actual solutions. Not even close. 🙂

The Secretary of Commerce is a fine guy, polite and all, but man, that dude spent maybe six months running some failing startup that dealt with $17 🙂
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There’s no malice intended here, but they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions rather than actual results.

The fundamental mistake being made is the constant harassment of small businesses and local tradespeople. Small enterprises can achieve incredible things because they are agile and efficient, provided we just stop burying them under endless regulations and mountain-high paperwork.

It is frankly Tragikomicna how he claims there needs to be more discipline among business owners, almost acting as if he's angry at them for not stepping up. But why on earth would they?
Half of these companies are either teetering on the edge of collapse or have already shuttered their doors. Why would anyone try to ramp up production? To hand more of it over to a government that essentially paralyzes them and puts their assets at risk with the big banks? Absolutely not.

At this point, people would honestly rather just stay home, tend to a garden, and pick up a little side hustle to keep things afloat while avoiding the tax man... instead of relying on state-run corporations, which never deliver anything anyway.

Laura Brown7 said:There’s no malice intended here, but they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions rather than actual results.

The fundamental mistake being made is the constant harassment of small businesses and local tradespeople. Small enterprises can achieve incredible things because they are agile and efficient, provided we just stop burying them under endless regulations and mountain-high paperwork.

It is frankly Tragikomicna how he claims there needs to be more discipline among business owners, almost acting as if he's angry at them for not stepping up. But why on earth would they?
Half of these companies are either teetering on the edge of collapse or have already shuttered their doors. Why would anyone try to ramp up production? To hand more of it over to a government that essentially paralyzes them and puts their assets at risk with the big banks? Absolutely not.

At this point, people would honestly rather just stay home, tend to a garden, and pick up a little side hustle to keep things afloat while avoiding the tax man... instead of relying on state-run corporations, which never deliver anything anyway.

I am completely with you on this.

Laura Brown7 said:There’s no malice intended here, but they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions rather than actual results.

The fundamental mistake being made is the constant harassment of small businesses and local tradespeople. Small enterprises can achieve incredible things because they are agile and efficient, provided we just stop burying them under endless regulations and mountain-high paperwork.

It is frankly Tragikomicna how he claims there needs to be more discipline among business owners, almost acting as if he's angry at them for not stepping up. But why on earth would they?
Half of these companies are either teetering on the edge of collapse or have already shuttered their doors. Why would anyone try to ramp up production? To hand more of it over to a government that essentially paralyzes them and puts their assets at risk with the big banks? Absolutely not.

At this point, people would honestly rather just stay home, tend to a garden, and pick up a little side hustle to keep things afloat while avoiding the tax man... instead of relying on state-run corporations, which never deliver anything anyway.

He might mean well, but he's completely missing the mark with his rhetoric.
This isn't some casual negotiation at a flea market where you say, "I'll give you this, you give me that, and we'll meet in the middle."

Make their lives a little easier, and maybe then the business community will actually start moving again.

Harold Long21 said:It feels like Slavko Linić just doesn't grasp the core issue here. The government has become this desperate addict, completely hooked on collecting import VAT just to keep its failing systems on life support, yet he’s out there acting like some kind of heavy-handed tax enforcer. It honestly seems like Linić is just padding his own pockets by enforcing this "golden silence," and frankly, business seems to be booming for him.

I completely agree. A leopard doesn't change its spots. 😢It’s the same old broken system where they just grab whatever they want. It feels impossible for a small business owner to survive on honest work alone. They seem to forget that even those bureaucrats' salaries come from the taxes paid by small and medium entrepreneurs... maybe that's why they're so afraid. They protect the giants, forgiving their debts and all sorts of things, probably because of campaign donations or hiring relatives.🙂 The whole system is a mess.

It didn't take those old-school collectivists very long at all.

It seems to me that Linić has completely lost his mind...😂

Now he’s playing the victim—all while he and Ljubo Jurčić were already hammering out the sale terms with ExxonMobil...🙂

Maybe they should just ban them from parking in downtown zones... that would probably worry them more than any gas station inspection ever could.😂