The minimum wage should be scrapped because it has no effect on the redistribution of wealth, Bas Jacobs, professor of public finances and economic policy, tells Tuesday's Trouw.
Off The Record | Anonymous | InfoWorld | I can't fix stupid | May 27, 2008 03:00 AM
Lowering the btw tax on energy-saving light bulbs is a possibility but is not yet an option...DutchNews.nl - No tax cuts on energy-saving bulbs
The minister was commenting on recommendations from her Lighting
Taskforce which says traditional light bulbs of 60 watts and above
should be phased out by 2011 and energy-saving versions be made much
cheaper through lower btw and a scrapping of the import tax.
"I don't. Because again, I've been around long enough.Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" about Hillary Clinton invoking Bobby Kennedy's assassination
You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he
won the
California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in **June** in
California. You know, I just don't understand it. You know, there's
lots of speculation about why it is. "
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And both actions, open a door wide into the soul of
somebody who seeks the highest office in this country, and through that
door shows something not merely troubling, but frightening.
"She said she had thought 'bugger them, I'll show them what I've got" police Sergeant Peter Masters told NZPA.
...between 80 and a hundred 100-meter high turbines...DutchNews.nl - Flevoland to build biggest Dutch wind park
...supply 450,000 households with electricity...
In the Tanya Andersen case (where the RIAA sued an innocent person), the court has awarded Andersen $108,000 in legal fees from the RIAA. You may recall that the RIAA had protested having to pay legal fees, which the judge smacked down.
.....
However, the much bigger news concerns the infamous Jammie Thomas case. As you'll recall, the RIAA won that case, even though it now admits that it said false things under oath... The judge has now admitted that he may have committed a "manifest error of law" in his jury instructions, and it sounds like he's going to order a new trial.
