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Rod Speed  
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 More options Oct 19 2012, 9:07 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:07:00 +1100
Subject: Re: Quickly fixing science fiction

"Robert Carnegie" <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote in message

news:199e3591-f550-4ac2-8b0f-b37f0ac473be@googlegroups.com...

> On Friday, October 19, 2012 4:11:00 PM UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
>> "Jens M. S rensen" <jsoer...@csc.com> wrote in message
>> news:508149d0$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...

>> > In article <adhkd7F16d...@mid.individual.net>, "Rod Speed"
>> > <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote

>> >>The Danish one was actually deliberate, and it was the actual tax rate
>> >>too, not just the result with other taxes added. Didn t last all that
>> >>long
>> >>tho.

>> >>Like I said, barking mad.

>> > This is (not surprisingly, considering the source) not true.

>> Fraid so, in the late 60s.

>> > Even though we suffer very high taxes, and the income
>> > tax especially in the 70's where ridiculously high.

>> Even higher in the late 60s before they came to their senses on that.

> Who would know that better than their neighbours in Australia.

I know that because a mate of mine ran off here to escape conscription there
at that time.

> They still talk of when Sydney harbour was blockaded
> by the Danish tax refugees on their luxury yachts...

Nar, that the Afghan and Sri Lankan illegals, stupid.

 
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