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27th November 2005, 10:34 PM #46
Sorry Termite, was just an observation of those lost within the lure of capitalism, obviously a being a socialist team player it was not directed to you
Bruce C.
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28th November 2005, 06:42 AM #47
I have a feeling that we lost a bit to the axe.
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28th November 2005, 08:56 AM #48
Yo say you want an ev-o-lution!
Bumper sticker I'd sport if I lived 10,000 km east
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28th November 2005, 10:44 AM #49
SA - If my country was knocked as much as the US is here, I'd want to retaliate like you did.
Putting aside the relative merits of different economic systems, I'd just like to comment on the VAT is correctly called GST in OZ, but same thing. For simplicity. this is a 10% charge, effectively levied on the last retail transaction. It replaced a sales tax (on most things, not all) of 20% levied on the last wholesale transaction. Across the board things haven't changed, some went up, some went down. Tax cuts were provided to mitigate any increase.
Secondly, I spend a fair bit of time in the US. Seems to me that most States have State sales taxes. I think that CA, the most prosperous State, is 15%.
Don't take offence to these posts, they shouldn't be aimed at you personally, but do realise that the current USA has offended a lot of people around the world. Just as the Greek, Roman, and British Empires did in their day.Bodgy
"Is it not enough simply to be able to appreciate the beauty of the garden without it being necessary to believe that there are faeries at the bottom of it? " Douglas Adams
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28th November 2005, 11:24 AM #50Originally Posted by Termite
Hmm, me too.Boring signature time again!
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28th November 2005, 11:42 AM #51Don't take offence to these posts, they shouldn't be aimed at you personally, but do realise that the current USA has offended a lot of people around the world."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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28th November 2005, 11:45 AM #52
Bodgy,
It is a stretch to maintain that my original post in this thread can be construed as 'knocking' the US, although SA seems to have taken it that way. My intention in drawing attention to the Smoot was merely to raise a smile, and maybe to poke mild fun at our trans-Pacific friends. SA's reaction - making out that the US is decades ahead of all other nations, whose inhabitants are a bunch of lazy so-and-so's, who need to get off their dumb asses, was, in my view, a gross over-reaction.
I think all fair observers would agree that America has had many remarkable achievements, but it has also had some spectacular failures, particularly in its foreign and social policies. Many Americans are willing to acknowledge these, but a minority of bigoted patriots will not.
Rocker
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28th November 2005, 12:13 PM #53
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28th November 2005, 03:04 PM #54
Methinks SA is a GW sorta guy, and my post was pulling the pants down on something the yanks have failed in .....spectactularly if I may add, but then again Aussie opinions prbably don't matter cause how many world series have we won lately eh?
what's the words I'm looking for here?.....yeah insular and defensive in natureBruce C.
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28th November 2005, 03:54 PM #55Registered
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Originally Posted by boban
Al :eek:
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28th November 2005, 04:10 PM #56
Goes without saying, Al. You!!
OK, just kidding, he meant the other clown. Not that you're a clown. I think I'll stop now...
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28th November 2005, 04:18 PM #57Registered
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Originally Posted by silentC
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28th November 2005, 04:59 PM #58
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28th November 2005, 05:46 PM #59Originally Posted by ozwinnerStupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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28th November 2005, 05:55 PM #60Originally Posted by Iain
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