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What's on your mind?; Your daily crap.
Topic Started: Jul 29 2010, 05:18 AM (64,069 Views)
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Post whatever is on your mind at the moment. It doesn't matter what, just post it!
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Gandalf20000
May 7 2012, 01:50 AM
I just saw the headline that France just elected a new president - a radical socialist one. And on of his promised policies? A 75% income tax on the wealthy. I suspect France will regret that decision in a few years when practically all of the French doctors, scientists, businessmen, and lawyers have deserted France in favor of countries with laws more friendly towards the wealthy. After all, if you make $100 thousand a year after several additional years of schooling, what is the incentive for doing so when the bum who dropped out of high school and makes $25 thousand is essentially making the same as you after taxes?
According to pretty much everything I have heard Hollande is socialist, but he is not radical. I doubt that he will screw up that badly.
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Hey, anything is better than communism and dictatorship :P
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May 7 2012, 09:28 PM
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May 7 2012, 01:50 AM
I just saw the headline that France just elected a new president - a radical socialist one. And on of his promised policies? A 75% income tax on the wealthy. I suspect France will regret that decision in a few years when practically all of the French doctors, scientists, businessmen, and lawyers have deserted France in favor of countries with laws more friendly towards the wealthy. After all, if you make $100 thousand a year after several additional years of schooling, what is the incentive for doing so when the bum who dropped out of high school and makes $25 thousand is essentially making the same as you after taxes?
According to pretty much everything I have heard Hollande is socialist, but he is not radical. I doubt that he will screw up that badly.
Radical socialism in the US means anything more liberal or socialist than our current president, so... I guess it's a matter of opinion.
A sample of his policies:

  • 75% taxes on anyone making 1 million Euros or more per year. 45% on anyone making over 150 thousand.
  • Cut nuclear power in France's power supply from 75% to 50%.
  • Other taxes and reversing tax breaks to increase revenue.


The other ones I think are too volatile to bring to the forum or I don't have enough economic knowledge to judge properly. I just think that all of the European countries that favor lower taxes on the wealthy will be receiving sizable influxes of wealthy French immigrants, which means that France is probably going to be losing quite a few doctors, certain engineers, businessmen, and upper-tier scientists.
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Gandalf20000
May 8 2012, 03:12 AM
Radical socialism in the US means anything more liberal or socialist than our current president, so... I guess it's a matter of opinion.
A sample of his policies:

  • 75% taxes on anyone making 1 million Euros or more per year. 45% on anyone making over 150 thousand.
  • Cut nuclear power in France's power supply from 75% to 50%.
  • Other taxes and reversing tax breaks to increase revenue.
Sounds alright. Just recently Germany has cut down its nuclear power supply to 0.0% ;) . And the tax stuff is for consolidation of the budget, which is clearly an important target currently. 250,000EUR a year after taxes still sounds neat.

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The other ones I think are too volatile to bring to the forum or I don't have enough economic knowledge to judge properly. I just think that all of the European countries that favor lower taxes on the wealthy will be receiving sizable influxes of wealthy French immigrants, which means that France is probably going to be losing quite a few doctors, certain engineers, businessmen, and upper-tier scientists.
Nah. Frenchmen typically speak nothing other than French and within Europe no other country likes that language (disregarding Belgium, French Swiss and Luxemburg, which are tiny). That makes emigration a little hard.

I'm sortof kidding, but there is a truth to it. French people have quite a lot of national pride.
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What language would be most common in the majority of Europe?
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May 8 2012, 11:36 AM
What language would be most common in the majority of Europe?
By judging from the amount of different countries that have a language in-common, including small communities around neighboring countries, I would say German. Of course, you will get by on simple English almost anywhere in Europe. French is also a popular language, maybe not as a primary language in Europe, but in the whole of Canada. My language may perhaps be one of the smallest, if going by the population count of native speaking Swedes, which is 8.3 million (as of 1998).
Edited by Despellanion, May 8 2012, 02:00 PM.
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Wikipedia is great :) .
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As you can see it is quite a patchwork with lots of different languages. What Despellanion said is accurate. In many parts of Europe you can get along with English very well, especially in smaller countries. My current study program happens to be taught in English completely. This is mostly due to the fact that most of my fellow students do not speak German.
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Well I speak english fluently, have 1 year of french, 2 years of spanish, and 1 year of dutch do you think I would fair or would I need more training?

also age of empires 3 online is f2p 'nuff said
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German and English gets me pretty far in the EU. Though my German is pretty bad, I am able to let them know what I want. And I am able to understand them.
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May 8 2012, 04:11 PM
Well I speak english fluently, have 1 year of french, 2 years of spanish, and 1 year of dutch do you think I would fair or would I need more training?
Depends totally on where you want to go and what you want to do. If you just want to travel, English gets you through nearly everywhere. Only France is quite difficult in this regard, but knowing some French should be good enough.

If you want to do something serious in any particular country it would be best to learn the language of this country, although it is not really mandatory. As I already mentioned most of my fellow students do not speak German either.
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I could get by fairly good on my basic Spanish from junior high. At least enough to get directions :P
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I understand any language, given I am granted a slow enough pronunciation and lots of gestures.


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May 8 2012, 10:31 PM
I could get by fairly good on my basic Spanish from junior high. At least enough to get directions :P
Spanish is a pretty easy language to learn, from what I'm told, especially where I live, since there's plenty of practice available where I live (lots of Mexicans in Texas). However, you'd end up speaking Mexican Spanish, which, to my knowledge, the true Spanish people frown upon and view as ghetto Spanish.

I don't know how people in Spain speak Spanish, but I know around here people speak it so fast that it's hard to understand unless you spend a large amount of time around them.

I guess I'm not very linguistically diverse. I've earned my foreign language credit at my high school with three years of Latin (four after next year, assuming my school counselors don't mess with my schedule). But at least I can say I've read some of the writings of Caesar, Ovid, and Catullus. I'll read some of the Aeneid next year, too.
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May 9 2012, 01:30 AM
However, you'd end up speaking Mexican Spanish, which, to my knowledge, the true Spanish people frown upon and view as ghetto Spanish.

I don't know how people in Spain speak Spanish, but I know around here people speak it so fast that it's hard to understand unless you spend a large amount of time around them.
People do not even speak Spanish in Barcelona :D .
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My sister is fluent in spanish and shes been to mexico and spain. There is an even older version of mexican spanish that sounds like indian yelps and chants, no one understands that crap lol.
Edited by zelda4evr, May 9 2012, 02:38 AM.

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