The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

I was thinking of getting a few old machines and putting them in my basement. But I ain't buying over the internet and Gorf is impossible to find locally.

[Admiral Yi]

Been a coon's age since Mongers posted.

[Ideologue]

Been a coon's age since Mongers posted.

He wanted to be the first man to bicycle across the English Channel.

[Ideologue]

Hey, 224,000.  Nice.

[Josquius]

Today the reason for Japan's economic problems of the past 20 years has became oh so clear to me; I'm being taxed about 2.3%.....

Apparently the Scottish Tories elected a lesbian Glaswegian their leader.  No-one noticed

Wow, that is mad, its like the Nazis electing a gay Jewish Pole their leader.

[Admiral Yi]

Today the reason for Japan's economic problems of the past 20 years has became oh so clear to me; I'm being taxed about 2.3%.....

Please elaborate.

[Razgovory]

I was thinking of getting a few old machines and putting them in my basement. But I ain't buying over the internet and Gorf is impossible to find locally.

I always wanted to do that.  Fuck if I know where you could find them.

[Eddie Teach]

I always wanted to do that.  Fuck if I know where you could find them.

Ebay.

[Josquius]

Today the reason for Japan's economic problems of the past 20 years has became oh so clear to me; I'm being taxed about 2.3%.....

Please elaborate.

I get taxed 7000 yen a month on 300,000 yen earnings. This is hilariously low and is apparently utterly normal and not a grievous error. In a more sensible country the tax would be more towards 70,000 than 7,000. Its a wonder they get anything done at all in this country- well, it would be if you didn't consider the size of their national debt.

[Admiral Yi]

I get taxed 7000 yen a month on 300,000 yen earnings. This is hilariously low and is apparently utterly normal and not a grievous error. In a more sensible country the tax would be more towards 70,000 than 7,000. Its a wonder they get anything done at all in this country- well, it would be if you didn't consider the size of their national debt.

That's all great stuff Squeeze, but I'm still a little foggy on the conection between low taxes and Japan's 20 years of low growth.

[Ideologue]

Well-funded government spending is the cornerstone of growth.

[Razgovory]

I get taxed 7000 yen a month on 300,000 yen earnings. This is hilariously low and is apparently utterly normal and not a grievous error. In a more sensible country the tax would be more towards 70,000 than 7,000. Its a wonder they get anything done at all in this country- well, it would be if you didn't consider the size of their national debt.

That's all great stuff Squeeze, but I'm still a little foggy on the conection between low taxes and Japan's 20 years of low growth.

Is there a connection between growth and debt?

[Josquius]

I get taxed 7000 yen a month on 300,000 yen earnings. This is hilariously low and is apparently utterly normal and not a grievous error. In a more sensible country the tax would be more towards 70,000 than 7,000. Its a wonder they get anything done at all in this country- well, it would be if you didn't consider the size of their national debt.

That's all great stuff Squeeze, but I'm still a little foggy on the conection between low taxes and Japan's 20 years of low growth.

No money=ineffective government that can't do much (or mires itself in debt when they try to do something).

[Habbaku]

No money=ineffective government that can't do much

What a shame that would be.

[Josquius]

No money=ineffective government that can't do much

What a shame that would be.

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