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Skriven 2011-03-10 12:44:06 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me...
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Hello Robert,

On Tuesday March 08 2011 17:09, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> Thats because your govt gets sexually excited with the taxes.

 MV>> What it looks like from this side of the pond is, that it is you
 MV>> who gets sexually excited when you see an opportunity to say
 MV>> something negative about our tax system.

 RB> Which, unfortunately, is not hard to do -

Of course. Nobody likes to pay taxes, they are a necessary evil. And as it is
impossible to device a tax system that is 100% faiur in everyone's perception,
there is always room for criticism.

But that's not the point. The point is that Ross:

1) Is mistaken in that politicians here get sexually excited about raising
taxes. It is absolute nonsense. It costs then votes.

2) Even if he were right, it is non of his bussines. It does not affect him.

 RB> The Germans despise and condemn the EU dictate to eliminate electric
 RB> light bulbs, but consider that merely bureaucratic insanity. But the
 RB> fact that the EU - and Germany (naturally attempting to jump ahead as
 RB> usual)

Hmm, it is usually the Dutch that try to best the best kid in class...

 RB>  - are willing to risk the health of their population's cars for
 RB> a mere principle, doesn't go down well with most Germans.

The German "E10 issue" has made it into the Dutch news too.

I have mixed feelings about it. Mainy becuase I have doubts the net effects for
the environment will be positive. Not if it takes away recources for growing
food.

As for what it does to the cars.... well we had the same histerics some 30 - or
was it forty - years ago when unleaded fuel was introduced. Doom sayers
proclaimed that it would lead to massive breakdowns of the engines that needed
lead to stay running. That has blown over and leaded fuel is history.

We will see the same thing happening with fuel mixed with ethanol. There will
be a few cars that do not like it. Those will be adapted or taken out of
service and that will be it. In ten years everyone will have forgotten it.

 RB> My next vote will be for a splinter party with halfway reasonable
 RB> goals - to keep the money my vote brings to a party (the government
 RB> finances parties according to votes) from the corrupt and dishonest
 RB> main parties. What a pitiable state of affairs! But what else can you
 RB> do as a thinking voter?

I don't know. I gave reached the point that I have to accept that life is too
short to try to change the world. So I will just make the best of what is left
of it.


Cheers, Michiel

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