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Producing homogenised statistics for the whole of the Union could prove to be a useful exercise, and that is why we voted in favour of the report. It is common knowledge, however, that governments distort and manipulate statistics in all sorts of ways, even those in an area as straightforward as unemployment.
The fundamental disparity between employees’ salaries and those of their employers is all the more reason for us to obtain reliable statistics on income. Employers know, to the nearest penny, how much their workers earn, but do the latter have any idea as to their employers’ income?
The total amount of capital income and, more generally speaking, information on how capital income works, are kept under wraps by virtue of the infamous ‘trade secrets act’, which exists to hide all instances of waste, speculation and corruption.
Because of a lack of transparency, European Union statistics on the income of the rich will always be unreliable, whether they are homogenised or not."@en1
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