How much UK really pays to be in the EU

The U.K. paid $16.3 billion net to the EU budget in 2014 alone. CNNMoney Europe Editor Nina dos Santos puts this number into perspective.

[curtiscarpenter]

93 percent of the world is outside the EU for starters, the money itself could be used t back research if we left the EU, I think we need to understand the money we need for jobs and investment can come from elsewhere with wider relations. With all the money it costs to leave that we have spent why haven't we left, I think it will cost just more and more and more.

[Lee-ish]

How about some other basics like democracy, and before there is the war cry of it is already democratic. the Lisbon treaty was not unanimously voted in, it was only majority voted so the larger member countries had a bigger say.
The Migrant scheme was also a majority vote so countries like Hungary and Poland who voted no on non EU migration much of which is economic not refugee migration had no real say and when they said they would not take the imposed external migrant numbers the EU via Junkers has now threatened them with sanctions.