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GeneralIntel: a clever plan, indeed! Pin
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Eddy Vluggen30-Apr-21 10:14
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
A subsidy is not an investment with a return
In theory it is; doesn't have to be a monetary return, but it should have some measurable benefit, like lower crime rates or similar.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
just a give-away
Yeah, that's how it goes in practice Big Grin | :-D

But it's not real money we giving, it's fiat, and there's a lot more where that's coming from. According to our economists, breaking a window is a gift for the economy, especially if you wounded in the process.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
the jobs will be in the EU, and surely the VAT
If in the Netherlands, they'll hardly be taxed. Because "jobs", and if we no tax-haven, those jobs go somewhere else. So, we a tax-paradise for those kind of companies.

No, not much jobs; they put their headquarters here for taxes, and the real plants somewhere else.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
Now, some good fallout from such a project would be putting Asia (China) on notice that the west really is pulling out of being held by the short-hairs for, well, just about everything.
Yeah, well, we subsidize China, since it is a third world country, according to definitions.

The world gone tiktok, and the tiktok generation is next in line to rule on the world stage. You know, from the series "a tiktokker drank 50 liters of water, this happened to his brain" Smile | :)

Man, it'll be fun to see them with the power of our nukes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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