@HeleneTveit1@hlidskjalfr Har man tatt feil ift. at det var mangel på fritidsklubber som var årsak til slik oppførsel, eller kan det være at denne karen fortsatt sliter med trangboddhet?
Wealth taxes export the rich and empty the treasury.
12 countries imposed them. 8 repealed them after watching capital flee.
Norway raised its rate in 2022 and saw $14.1 billion in deferred income leave, costing the government roughly $5 billion in lost revenue.
France drove out 200 billion euros between 1988 and 2007, and economist Eric Pichet calculated the lost taxes exceeded everything the tax ever collected.
India’s finance minister called his own version a high cost, low yield tax and abolished it.
California still sells the fantasy of $100 billion.
A Hoover study cuts that to $40 billion once 30% of the tax base simply relocates.
The pattern never changes. The wealth moves first, the revenue vanishes second, and the politicians who sold the idea keep pretending the next attempt will be different.
Anyone still pushing this policy is volunteering to drive productive capital out of their own country. Or state.
Georgia ranked 137th in the world for ease of doing business.
3 years later it was 11th and had overtaken Germany and France, while everyone was still calling it a failed post-Soviet state.
A businessman named Kakha Bendukidze took the economy ministry after the Rose Revolution in 2003 and tore the system apart.
He cut the tax code from 21 taxes to 6, slammed in a flat 12% income tax, and wiped out most of the licenses and permits choking every business.
Then he fired the entire corrupt traffic police overnight and built a new force from scratch.
GDP grew 7.5% a year and foreign investment went from almost nothing to $2.1 billion.
No country has ever climbed the rankings that fast.
Back in clown world, Western governments keep adding rules and agencies while growth stalls because real reform would destroy the parasites they protect.
@AudunBraten Helt enig i påstanden din, men dessverre tror jeg ikke vi har noen på stortinget som har evner og baller nok til å forhandle oss ut av avtalen, uten å gi bort enorme verdier.
Det her er en fantastisk afslørende artikel fra @EkstraBladet
Ikke fordi at Ståle Solbakkens datter føler sig mere dansk end norsk, hvilket hun efter flere år i Danmark udtaler at hun gør.
Nej, den er fantastisk fordi Ekstrabladet til trods for at at datteren føler sig dansk, stadig insisterer på at kalde hende for en nordmand - hvilket hun selvfølgelig også er.
Underforstået at det ikke længere er hvad man føler sig som i hjertet, hvilket sprog man taler, eller hvor man har hjemme, som afgør hvad man er - det er dét etnokulturelle element som afgør det.
Jeg tror så småt vi er ved at vinde kulturkampen og retten til at definere hvornår nogen er dansk, norsk, tysk eller somalisk😃💪
When politics ceases to be about people, then it is solely about power.
In this process political power becomes unresponsive to public needs.
The leaders of Government become cocooned in a world of their own. Such isolation leads to arbitrary government, to insensitivity, to an arrogance of power.
They become oblivious to the needs and daily anxieties of the people.
@LiseSorensen_ Hvis vi hadde droppet å fokusere på hudfarge og etnisitet, men heller på moral og verdigrunnlag, hvordan ville verden sett ut da? Helt lik, men det er vanskeligere å ta noen på å ha god moral og godt verdigrunnlag. Derfor bruker man rasisme som skjellsord
The composer Edvard Grieg was born on June 15, 1843 in Bergen, Norway.
This is the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the first movement "Morning Mood" of Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite.”
Have a wonderful day!
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@EuroDale Imponerende hvor blendet av egen ideologi han er. Velger å angripe ei gammel dame i følge med flere menn fordi han er uenig, så kan han ikke slå en gang. Ideologi overskygger kritisk tenkning og vurderingsevne
Received a message that my recent cartoon about the Henry Nowak case has been banned on X for EU nations for “hate speech.”
@elonmusk How do I appeal this? This appears to be a clear abuse of the policy by the European left.
22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.
He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.
Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊