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I think its a safe bet that some legislaturers in CA and IL are thinking up how to erect custom booths on the Interstates as well. Converting those welcome plazas and truck weight stations into tax and fee collection offices.
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"Denmark on Friday approved a decision to re-establish permanent customs checkpoints at its borders"
'Bout damn time. Re-establishing national sovereignty - what a concept!
Next up - tell the EUrocrats to go to hell.
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It came out a while back that leftist political parties throughout Europe had long been intentionally flooding Europe with "immigrants", with the tacit understanding that they would only vote for leftist political parties.
And they overcame the reluctance of EU nations that didn't want an influx by removing all border controls, so they would get flooded anyway.
Finally the Danes have wised up to this scheme. Other nations, now controlled by the right, will likely follow suit, despite bitter protests from the left.
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What will happen is companies shipping into Cali will just hire illegal alien drivers, who will be waved through once it's realized they have no papers. Cause we all know you can't ask them for papers or hold them for anything.
I wish I was just being sarcastic but somehow I can see this happening.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division ||
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P2K: Blago, when he was Illinois governor, floated a proposal to use the I-Pass (like EZ-Pass on the east coast) toll road transponders to track motorists and issue speeding tickets automatically based on when you went past the toll booths.
Fortunately he offered the Senate job around before he could implement the transponder idea.
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There's a tribal highway in OK that has tollbooths. They know how much time it takes legally to travel from entrance to exit booth and do the calculation on speed. If you arrive really 'early' they issue the ticket at the exit booth.
(KUNA) -- The unemployment in the 27-member European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... rate was 9.3 percent in May, unchanged compared with April. These figures were published Friday by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.
Eurostat said that 22.378 million men and women in the EU were unemployed in May and compared with April, the number of persons unemployed fell by 5, 000.
Among the EU member states, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands (4.2 percent), Austria (4.3 percent) and Luxembourg (4.5 percent), and the highest in Spain (20.9 percent), Lithuania (16.3 percent) and Latvia (16.2 percent).
Compared with a year ago, the unemployment rate fell in nineteen EU countries and increased in eight. Meanwhile, ...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit... in a separate statement Eurostat said the overall tax-to-GDP ratio in the EU declined to 38.4 percent in 2009, compared with 39.3 percent in 2008. This decrease was essentially due to the 4.3% drop in GDP in the EU from 2008 to 2009, rather than to tax cuts.
In comparison with the rest of the world, the EU tax ratio remains generally high and more than one third above the levels recorded in the USA and Japan. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the tax burden varies significantly between EU member states, ranging in 2009 from less than 30 percent in Latvia (26.6 percent), Romania (27.0 percent), Ireland (28.2 percent), Slovakia (28.8 percent), Bulgaria (28 9 percent) and Lithuania (29.3 percent) to more than 45 percent in Denmark (48. 1 percent) and Sweden (46.9 percent)..
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It has long been noted that EU government fudge their unemployment stats even more than the USG. I believe that in Britain, the unemployment stats were modified some 24 times, each and every time lowering the number of officially unemployed.
(KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ... arrived in Madrid Friday on her first official two-day visit to the country with the aim of boosting bilateral ties in various domains.
Clinton was received upon her arrival to Torrejon Air Force Base in Madrid by US ambassador to Spain Alan Solomont, and high-profile Spanish and US figures, and she will embark upon discussing political topics on her agenda with holding a meeting with her Spanish counterpart Trinidad Jimenez.
It is scheduled for Clinton to meet King Juan Carlos, and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in order to mull with them a number of issues, particularly the military intervention in Libya, war in Afghanistan, and the Middle East upheavels.
Further, discussions will tackle the latest developments in Latin America, particularly in Cuba and Venezuela, besides thrashing out the ways of boosting bilateral ties in the domains of trade, economy, and investment.
Clinton's visit is her first to the country since taking over her office in 2009, and within a tour which will take her to Hungary, and Lithuania, while this is the first visit paid by the top US diplomat to Spain in two years.
Jimenez considered yesterday the visit of her American counterpart as a proof of deep-rooted ties between the two countries, expressing hope that such visit will further boost ties, and bring political stances closer, besides opening up new horizons for cooperation in various political, economic, and military fields.
This is the third meeting between Clinton and Jimenez as the two ministers met last January in Washington, and before this in Lisbon on the sidelines of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... summit in November 2010.
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[Al Jazeera] The Italian government has approved an austerity package aimed at shielding the country from the Greek debt crisis and eliminating the budget deficit in 2014.
The package, drafted by Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, contains $66.7bn of deficit cuts to balance the budget in 2014. It will trim the budgets of central government ministries and local authorities and reduce tax breaks for companies and families.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... parliament must approve it within 60 days.
The austerity sweep has heightened tensions within the centre-right coalition of Silvio Berlusconi, ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... the prime minister, and his restive Northern League ally has warned that the government is at risk until the package is passed.
"The composition of the budget is very well balanced between lower spending and higher revenues," Tremonti, the Italian finance minister, said at a joint news conference with Berlusconi. "With today's measures we completed our path towards a balanced budget."
He described this as a "political, civic and moral objective".
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Italy is notorious for tax evasion. We'll see how well this works.
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