A loucura onde vivemos

O artigo "Germany Knows What Doesn't Work" publicado no WSJ ilustra bem a loucura que é o Portugal onde vivemos.
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Pessoalmente sou contra os subsídios, os subsídios são a forma de uma qualquer hierarquia fazer escolhas e alocar recursos só porque é hierarquia. No entanto, consideremos a realidade descrita no artigo:
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"Germany has a perfectly good, home-grown reason for resisting an expanded system of fiscal transfers between euro-zone states; its own one patently isn't working.
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The federal states have since 1950 been required to pay into the "Laenderfinanzausgleich," a scheme that aims to iron out the differences in incomes between rich and poor states, ensuring that the state can provide a roughly equivalent level of public services to all Germans.
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The trouble for Mr. Artus is that the system is ridden with false incentives. States that receive money from the mechanism have no reason to improve their financial management, or their economic strength by structural reforms. Only one, Bavaria from the mid-1980s onward, has ever transformed itself durably from a net recipient of transfers to a net donor."
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"It isn't just Germany that is being forced to re-examine the way it redistributes income between rich and poor regions. In Italy, Spain and, most dramatically, in Belgium, the trend is unmistakable: the unbearable pressures put on state budgets by the financial crisis and the ensuing recession are flushing out all the hidden subsidies and transfers that governments have built into their economies in the name of national cohesion and social peace over the past six decades."
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O que eu gostava de chamar a atenção é para o facto de em Portugal ser ao contrário. As várias zonas mais pobres do país têm de financiar a região de Lisboa, a drenagem assente em spill-overs e outros artifícios é outro exemplo do mundo que o FMI vai encerrar.