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RE: British Riots
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Ruphus
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RE: British Riots (in reply to Ron.M)
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ORIGINAL: Deniz Dont know in the US, but in Germany, i would be surprised if more than 50% of the business starters received education in how to set up a business plan. I agree about people not being able to maintain a hosehold, but i would definitely argue that the number is not that much that it would be systematically relevant in capitalism. In fact, most low-income people have to calculate precisely to even be *able* to maintain their household, more so than upper low and middle class people, who have some extra hundreds or thousands every month to spend, after food and rent is paid. These days, those with yet thousands of bucks after food and rent belong to the rather minor part of upper middleclass. Common folks are having left over just a couple hundred bucks worth. There just is way too much corruption, usury and profiteering. Just yesterday I saw a stainless steel ending of a ventilation channel, costing 6000 bucks. A ~ 300 g piece of gouda cheese costing the equivalent of 7,5 $ ... The Albertinum museum in Dresden last year built a garret as storage for paintings. The garret amounted to 51 million Euro! I say the reasonable value of producing that garret was hardly worth 300 000€ under sober conditions. And that is how it goes all the time with public projects and maintenance. But even outside the extremes of mafia contracting on state orders: Everything has gone through the roof, and a part of the inflation is because of hefty taxes on goods and services; notwithstanding the taxes after income tax, which altogether leave you with actual duties around 80% cuts of your gross salary. Just look at what a package of cigarettes costs today, and know that 80% of that insane amount is being taxes. The tax collection alone is huge and its actual amount not at all fully displayed in official files. In the same time, states are declared bankrupt, unable to provide the basics of their dues. There are hundreds of billions per state forked off routinely every year ( an estimated 60% of NGP falling prey to corruption, which I consider to be a very realistic proportion ), while folks are being fed with the story of notorious underdogs who would be looting the cashbox. Absolutely, time for paradigm change. Ruphus
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