Should the EU develop further into a federation of nation states?

[Puupi]

You guys don't really tax income as a federal union do you?

Nope, not directly.

[Wildtree]

I'm surprised there's so much support. The only states that were more against it than for it are:

Slovakia
Czech Republic
Austria
Bulgaria
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Estonia
UK
Denmark
Finland
Sweden

I feel like the last three are mostly because they have a bit of a rival conception of a Nordic Union.

But the fact that of 28 states, only 12 are against is surprising.

Of course, the last four against I mentioned are HARDCORE against, so there's that. But the EU taken as a whole is more FOR federation than against it.

I do wonder why Croatia's symbol is HR.

Well, depends how you look at it....
One could also say, that there are only 5 that are for it.
The "I don't know" portion can go either way, and with the rather recent developments in Europe chances are that most from the IDK category are counting towards No.
The survey was from 2014... since then, much changed in Europe that shifted the opinions back to more national interests in many nations.
Greece, Muslims, Refugee crisis etc.. That's all important things to consider now in 2015..

[Ripster42]

Nope, not directly.

That's another thing the US does that I don't think most people in the EU would like. In the US we tax at the federal level and fund the social programs we do have on that level. They may be administrated at the state level, but a lot of the funds come from the federal gov't. The Grisis would be a completely different thing in the US. Like, we're not giving a shit that Kansas is going to default.

[Puupi]

That's another thing the US does that I don't think most people in the EU would like. In the US we tax at the federal level and fund the social programs we do have on that level. They may be administrated at the state level, but a lot of the funds come from the federal gov't.

No different from EU whatsoever. Just that EU doesn't directly collect income tax. It collects various other taxes and payments, but not income. Also EU pays lots subsidies to member states. Agricultural subsidies are a huge part of what EU actually is, 40% of EU budget goes to those.

[Reeve]

Before there were posts in this thread listing some of the countries I was wondering what they were.

You've got Hungary, Pluto, Romania, Elephants, Belgium, Potatoe, Homerun!, Lithuania, France, uh Sinks, Mountains, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, EU28( wtf is this?), Suckland, Estonia, Carz, Antennae, Latvia, Belgium again, Ireland, Lunatics, Netherlands, EEK snakes!, UK, Donkey Kong, Finland, and Sweden.

It's funny. I identify these far easier by their flags than their letters. But I'm also a huge fan of flags, so I've got nearly all of them memorized.