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Skriven 2009-10-14 19:47:13 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
    Kommentar till text 371 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Taxes
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WD>> In Belgium there was legislation introduced prior to the conversion
WD>> how it should be done. Deviating from that was a crime.

ml> is/was it every enforced as a crime and has/was any entity ever been
ml> brought to trial over it?? ;)

 RB> Surely you jest ;-)))

actually, not at all... if there's legislation that's been passed, that means
that there's a law... if there's a law, then there must be some sort of
enforcement of that law... if there's no enforcement, then the law/legislation
is not worth the parchment that it is written on nor is it worth the $$$ that
those legislators made for creating said law/legislation...

 RB> I have my doubts that such laws - even where they existed (not in
 RB> Germany) - were applied very rigorously.

not only there but all over the world ;)

 RB> My capital examples remain restaurants and hotels/accommodations,
 RB> which used to be at least halfway affordable before 2002, but
 RB> meanwhile are pricewise out of sight. However, I don't know whether
 RB> that has much to do with the Euro - perhaps it was just a big
 RB> invitation rather than a cause - since I see the same thing
 RB> happening in the States.

sadly, many items are going the way of the greedy who are always trying to make
more and more for less and less... sadly the idjutz out there simply do not
recognize that there's only so much $$$ to go around, you can't take it with
you, and making more $$$ to cover only weaken the $$$ in the first place :? :?
:(

 RB> I blanch when I hear of a normal, average hotel room going for $100
 RB> and above per _night_! And the same thing happens when I hear of a
 RB> restaurant bill per person of $50 and above. The last time I stayed
 RB> at a hotel in the States was in 2001, in Florida, and I paid
 RB> something like $35 a night - a level I could accept. A few years
 RB> ago, the discount motels on the French autoroutes charged around
 RB> EUR 25 a night - meanwhile it's impossible to find even a dump for
 RB> less than EUR 35.

you chose "affordable" and "budget" accomodations... that's a plus for you and
others who do the same...

 RB> I wish my income had risen accordingly. At any rate, I have the
 RB> impression that a lot of people are taking home more than $100,000
 RB> a year nowadays, since otherwise nobody would stay in a hotel or
 RB> eat at a restaurant. And unfortunately, that goes for Europe and
 RB> the States equally.

that $100000 isn't really $100000 like we used to see it... thanks to all the
greed and bean counter influenced inflation... what's really sad is that it has
encompassed the entire world and no one benefits from it... maybe it is time to
just let the nukes loose from space and start this world all over again??

)\/(ark

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