We also incarcerate -by far- a higher percentage of our population than any other industrialized country. That, along with having a large active military... and then look at U6 unemployment figures... and guess what? We're up there with Spain, maybe even worse.
I'm a Dutch citizen and I pay absolutely zero in taxes on the money I make by trading. The rule here is that everybody has to pay 30% on a "fictve" income of 4% on his capital. That makes 1.2% on your capital. What you really make doesn't matter. That for me, in my circomstances, is the only taxes I pay: every year 1.2% of my total net worth.
In the UK about 70% of convicted criminals re-offend and that's the ones that are caught ! Obviously a great big re-think is needed. The present system of sending them to jail for a while is hopeless. Many come out having learnt to become more sophisticated criminals. Prisons are aptly named the Universities of crime. Some consider wrongly in my view that they have repaid a debt to society when the reality is that they are a massive burden on the state's resources. Sooner or later a politician of strength will hopefully emerge to tackle this situation. The old Christian philosophy of forgiveness is wasted on such hardened villains.
Prison mainly should be for violent offenders. Others should be put into activities that recompense back the victims OR strip them of their citizenship then dump them onto some deserted island, etc.
Right on there's Alcatraz, Devil's island off Guiana and perhaps Mars when they get around to it. Australia seems occupied at the mo
and this occurred to you now? Bravo... Its all a question of whether you belong or not. Obviously those who bash GS dont...;-)
"...The Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe have given us the clearest possible proof that capitalism organizes the material affairs of humankind more satisfactorily than socialism; that however inequitably or irresponsibly the marketplace may distribute goods, it does so better than the queues of a planned economy; however mindless the culture of commercialism, it is more attractive than state moralism; and however deceptive the ideology of a business civilization, it is more believable than that of a socialist one ...." Robert Heilbroner [ Former Marxist economist who changed his position before the fall of the Berlin Wall] From an article at www.augustreview.com
hahah I call the bluff ! you are naked buddy... be carefull I could start to buy So for the uneducated or fool that you are some comments that you didn't write... you little dishonnest man... trying to prove something false ! I hate you. "Dati was the first woman from a non-European immigrant background to occupy a key ministerial position in the French Cabinet.[1]" (wiki english) Ahah 1 - 0 ( as you don't have enough intellectual horse power : it was the 18 may 2007 ! Don't you think it isn't late ? ) Now where is Miss Dati ? She was removed to the European parlement ! Far away from Paris... How long did she stay in the Gov ? 2- 0 Why it wasn't a foreign man first ?... Because it's not the same... you know what I mean... a because you are stupid enough to understand this one. 3-0 The other girl : MissYade : Rama Yade (born Mame Ramatoulaye Yade on December 13, 1976 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French politician who has served in the government of France since 2007 and is currently the Secretary of State for Sports. ( wiki ) Sport baby... hahah 4-0 And now the final point... because I don't understand stupidity... I try... because you know... what else could I do... "The Senate (French: Sénat) is the upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a president. The Senate enjoys less prominence than the lower house, the directly elected National Assembly; debates in the Senate tend to be less tense and enjoy generally less media coverage." Ready : I went to the website and checked the name with C as a good sample... Let's check who as a foreign name... ( http://www.senat.fr/listes/senatl.html#SEN_O ) C CAFFET Jean-Pierre CAMBON Christian CAMPION Claire-Lise CANTEGRIT Jean-Pierre CARLE Jean-Claude CARRÃRE Jean-Louis CARTRON Françoise CAZALET Auguste CAZEAU Bernard CERISIER-ben GUIGA Monique CÃSAR Gérard CHARASSE Michel CHASTAN Yves CHATILLON Alain CHAUVEAU Jean-Pierre CHEVà Jacqueline CHEVÃNEMENT Jean-Pierre CLÃACH Marcel-Pierre COINTAT Christian COLLIN Yvon COLLOMB Gérard COLLOMBAT Pierre-Yves CORNU Gérard COUDERC Raymond COURTEAU Roland COURTOIS Jean-Patrick NONE !!! All the name are 100% french NATIVE ! YOU ARE A NAKED ! And now check your phone... it's your broker calling you... you have a margin call... 5-0 PS what is you agenda ? what do you want ? only stupidity ?