A Europeanization of some part of value-added tax would be a tremendous advance in combating the massive fraud that the existing system nurtures. Labor mobility is also incomplete without a common pensions and benefits system: under current arrangements, a worker who spends five years in France, five years in Greece, and five years in Germany is left with a fragmented collection of small entitlements.
在汉密尔顿的方案中，联邦关税机关是重要组成部分。将部分增值税欧洲化将是打击现有制度滋生的大规模欺诈的重大进步。在缺乏共同退休金和福利制度的情况下，劳动力流动性也是不完全的：在现有安排下，一位在法国、希腊和德国各呆了五年的工人退休后只能得到几项少量福利的简单组合。此次危机已经增加了欧洲此类劳动力迁移的程度。