Alright gents, will copy/paste the rules for the other one soon. Lounge needs a restart every so often so figure 666 is the best number to end this thread on.
Actually from traveling the rest of the world, this is more true than anyone wants to admit.
People don’t realize much of European cities outside the usual tourist trappings and city centers look alot like Detroit, the bad side of Detroit.
Rural areas can get as backwards as you can get. Some Villages only got electricity and plumbing in the 21st century.
I don’t know about Australia, but in the US the vast majority of taxation is on income rather than wealth. This causes those (both individuals and businesses) with income very significantly higher than their expenses to tend to hoard wealth. Apple, for example, is rather famously sitting on > $250 billion. Hoarding wealth drives currency deflation, which is bad. Not taxing wealth means the actual burden of taxation falls more heavily on those who have to rely on their income to live, which is unjust.
Admittedly, businesses hoarding wealth is a whole other issue. But for private individuals at least, taxing wealth as income in the precise circumstance where it behaves like income (in the form of an inheritance), isn’t necessarily a terrible idea. Not in systems where the accumulated wealth itself isn’t already taxed much at all, anyway.
America: Season 2 is really kicking off with a bang! Trump the snowflake suing Bannon hahaha Shiettt. So good.
Also since A Shit Pie wants to take your internet and Opossum Sessions wants to take your weed, when are you guys gonna revolt against old white republicans?
Kinda long, but if you care about international trade or really the international role of America, I’d suggest it’s required reading. It jibes strongly with what I’ve heard from people involved in international trade.
We bombed your countries into the bedrock, razed your economies via our corrupt banking systems (and our bombs), and stone-cold murdered each and every one of your leaders who might have even hinted at effecting change for the better within your nations’ sovereign borders.
Might as well come work for us, now.
If you have actual skills, we might even keep you around, as Corporate House Slaves.
