It's Probably Nothing

Gee thanks. I hadn't had my hit of depression yet this morning.

Not surprising... Rome has a history of sending the legions out to protect tax collectors.

Nearly twenty years ago there was a little paperback book called "Take The Money and Run". Not sure how the author stickhandled around the copyright of the movie, but the book described what an individual would need to do to take his money out of Canada, legally, tax-efficiently, and permanently.

There would seem to be some potential for an updated version written for present day conditions, in Europe especially, but as well in the U.S.

I had a copy of the book, but I loaned it to an associate, and he never returned it.

Interestingly, he was from Quebec.

An underground economy of $500 plus billion, and they recover $12 billion. Truly a marvelous success rate. As you can imagine, my sympathies with serial tax evader Maradona are limited to say the least.

Trouble dealing with anarchists and rioters? Looks like rubber just won't do.

kakcola, just ask the Bromfman family how they did it with over $1B.

Barter is exempt from income tax.

Hey no worries, Capt Schettino will rescue the Costa Eurocordia...!

Looks like the rodents are beginning to depart the ship, as the pirates have already departed with the loot.

Buon viaggio!

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

flight capital as they say...

I read Take the Money and Run as well as My Blue Haven (if memory serves). The killing question is, to where do you run?

I read Take the Money and Run as well as My Blue Haven (if memory serves). The killing question is, to where do you run?

Kyla, I have been wondering when the gays will get tired of being pawns in these elections, Canadian as well. Help us here.

Sry...wrong post...

Equitalia is what they call the tax collector? Surely a spoof.

Of course, this cunning plan is conditional on the loyalty of the army and the police being guaranteed.

Meanwhile, back in Greece, a good half of the police force in Athens voted last Sunday for the patriotic Golden Dawn party, the only major party with a program with any semblance of sense---for example, getting serious about tightening security on the Greek-Turkish border, the source of most of Greece's illegal immigration, as well as telling the bankers where they can go with the bad cheques written on the people's account by traitors.

(I should add Golden Dawn are the only important Greek party bothering to lift a finger to help fellow Greeks forced into destitution, with Golden Dawn activists organizing food and clothing drives for the needy Greeks in Athens.

Not that ND or PASOK need to help their base out, I suppose---they're scurrying off to London with as much of their people's birthright as they can carry in their luggage.)

When Athens runs out of German money, the banks close their doors, and the army and police have nothing left to lose but their country, no prizes for guessing most of them will side with their people. The Greek army saved their country from the communists in 1967. They will again. And Greece won't be the last nation of Europe to reclaim its freedom.

Next Christmas in Bucharest!

And just think, 3 short years ago my Liberal friends said Europe was doing fine financially.
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When they replaced the elected prime minister with the banker, Mario Monte, I suspected there would eventually be trouble.

Would you want to pay taxes to a State that replaces your elected people with bankers?

Golden Dawn?
Oh, you mean the fascists.
When the Nazis show up to fight the Communists, the point is not to pick a favourite.

"The drums...the Drums!..."

Listening to Arthur C Brooks head of AEI and former syracuse Econ professor on Hugh Hewitts show:

He noted there are four ways that govts have tried to deal with a debt crisis:

Tax the rich and spend more

Spend more and keep taxes the same

Spend less and keep taxes the same

Spend less and lower taxes.

The last option had a 100% success rate

The third option 75% success and the first two options ALL FAILED.

(Brooks has a book out: The Road to Freedom - sounds like an excellent read)

I love that Europe, which has lorded some false sense of superiority over North America for its generous (read: unnecessarily lavish) social programs, is now eating itself. I'm just going to sit back watch.

Arrivaderci, Roma.

Their "Equitalia"; sounds like what progressives use to think with.

LOL, I initially thought Equitalia was one of Kate's virtuosic coinages referring to the redistributive societies [welfare states with yankee defense] they're created in Europe.

Equitalia! Hilarious.

Me too on the schadenfreude! They asked for it, and they're getting it good and hard. We're all gonna suffer though, sadly.