0.3% less population growth: Does it really matter to live in the overall bigger economy? Are the Chinese better off than the people of Norway, because China has a bigger economy or would you prefer to live in 4 million people Norway?
Moreover Sarko has promised to use a capital gains tax increase to finance a negative income tax for the poor
Affordable health care for everybody, financed by the taxpayers solidarity if necessary.
Speaking of Minnesota, I haven't met a European (who isn't living in the US) who knows where Minneapolis is (my response after they ask where I am from). About 1/10 have even heard of it. I always follow with "it's 500km northwest of Chicago," and maybe 1/4 claim to have an idea where Chicago is.
you are the media you consume.
Yes and no. Minneapolis-St.Paul metro has a population well over 3 million. We're talking a place that's significantly larger than Frankfurt, and roughly the size of Munich.
i had thought the mechanism more like a transactional Tobin tax, seperate from that calculation, but I could very well be wrong...also note the shift of all the RMI and similar funding, creating working poor out of non-working poor; but poor all the same. Though, it should be noted the value of work is an ethical value, good for both individual and collective... Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
