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2005-01-14 Europe

Britain told to give up its Â£2.5bn EU rebate

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Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-14 12:56:31 PM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ROFLMAO!!! Great post, BD!

Rules? What rules? Rules are for the suckers, lol!

Socialism 101: Drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator. Don't worry, you'll feel good about yourself afterwards, just think of solidarity and lie back and enjoy it.

Posted by .com 2005-01-14 1:11:41 PM|| 2005-01-14 1:11:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Without it, Britain would have paid 14 times as much as France or Italy to the EU.

WTF?

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-14 1:21:09 PM|| 2005-01-14 1:21:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hilarious!! Couldn't come up with a more pointed refutation of socialist redistribution if you tried.

Of course the other side of this is the fact that if the "14 times more" rule is enforced, Britain will stop being more efficient and the total pool will dry up.

The canonical example is the difference between paying brick layers by the brick or by the day...the former will get you maximum output as everyone lays as many bricks as they can. The latter insures that no one will lay anymore bricks than the smallest number required to get paid. At this point you stop making enough money to pay anyone and you get the good old Soviet axiom.....they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

Good luck folks, you're gonna need it. 8^)

Posted by AlanC 2005-01-14 1:40:01 PM|| 2005-01-14 1:40:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 But Ms Grybauskaite, who has a black belt in martial arts and a formidable reputation, gave warning in an interview:

oooh...watch out!

Posted by 2b 2005-01-14 5:04:38 PM|| 2005-01-14 5:04:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 A tovaritch kommisar of the European Socialist Sovietic Republics shows the true colours of the modern Leviathan, yet again: to tax the able, the ambitious, the free -- in order to feed bureaucrats and parasites.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-01-14 5:56:00 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-01-14 5:56:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's see, yesterday it was announced that the EP Constitution had been approved. Yet the EU has turned into a nanny union, requiring countries like the UK to support the ailing German and Fench economies.

The British should revolt just as the Colonies revolted from the British.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-14 10:20:38 PM|| 2005-01-14 10:20:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 notice that Aris was afraid to comment on this. Coward and pussy

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-14 10:44:20 PM|| 2005-01-14 10:44:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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