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• Moz commented on I can't even
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-significant-cost-effective-policy-reduce-road-toll-richard-tooth Here's a fun one for the privacy people. Reduce the road toll by encouraging car insurance providers to more vigorously surveil their customers and charge them based on their actions. Result being that poor people drive slowly, during the day, in safe places. Well, the safest places they can afford to be in or drive through, just as many already drive the safest (motor) vehicle they can afford... ie, one that's not very safe at all. But anyone who can afford it will face less congestion and safer conditions on the road. At the small cost of a less...
• Dave Lester commented on I can't even
  EC, Alan, Yes, I am saying that there is a difference in their treatment of personal taxation. And that is that the IRS insists on knowing about and taxing you on all your assets/actions world-wide, whereas the HMRC has any number of dual taxation treaties behind which you can shield these things legally. You may recall the trouble Boris Johnson -- then a US-UK dual national -- had with the profits from a house sale in the UK (exempt for the HMRC, but chargeable for the IRS). In the end he gave up his US citizenship. And this is before...
• Elderly Cynic commented on I can't even
  Oh, yes, i agree with that, but that wasn't what the point of what I was replying to or what I said. I was referring to the regulatory capture, by the Money controlling our 'elected representatives'. THAT's essentially the same....
• paws4thot commented on I can't even
  I didn't think that Rishi Rich was, but his wife definitely was....
• Troutwaxer commented on I can't even
  From November, 2014. https://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1264.html...