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2006-01-21 Britain

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Posted by Chuck 2006-01-21 18:17|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, what is it with liberals?
Can't they retain anything actually, you know, useful?

Must be a congenital brain wiring problem or chemical imbalance. Hundreds of examples that prove that increasing taxation is regressive and economically counter-productive, yet time after time...

So, uh, how much for whackin' Brown?

Cheep. How about .01% of the relative gain over the first 4 years, with a cap at, say, â¬100M - tax free, of course, lol...
;-)

Posted by .com 2006-01-21 18:52|| 2006-01-21 18:52|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a related article today in the Telegraph (UK), Red tape 'turning best firms away from Europe', on a report just issued summarizing Europe's business woes. Bottom line: instead of catching up to America, China and Japan in R&D spending and the creation of innovative new businesses, they're falling even farther behind.

Add that to their depressive demographics and the continuing influx of unassimilatable Muslim immigrant labor, and it looks to me like they're royally fucked.

I don't think these people are going to be much help in the future...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-01-21 19:36|| 2006-01-21 19:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "economic patriotism"

Oh yeah, that's the ticket: corporate suicide.

"The total pool of risk capital investment spent in Europe had shrunk by 90 per cent since the height of the information technology boom in 2000."

Thud.

Of course, we can guess what will happen... they'll try to punish companies for this, if they can find a way, instead of "getting it" and giving them reasons to change this trend voluntarily.

Buh-bye.

Posted by .com 2006-01-21 19:52|| 2006-01-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, I 'spect that's where we're at: the "buh-bye point".

Circling the drain. Death spiral. Cultural and economic suicide. Sure looks to me like my ancestors made the right decision three and a half centuries ago when they flipped Europe the bird and got on that boat for America...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-01-21 20:09|| 2006-01-21 20:09|| Front Page Top

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