Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

There's no tomorrow without Europe.
All this will take hundred years to solve, another dark ages are inevitably approaching .

......... Mortgages will survive. That and taxes.

my property taxes have been paid years in advance

You pay taxes in advance?
For the State, the last centime at the last minute, my motto.

I pay 10 years in advance, at today's lower rates, for which I receive special access & future considerations if needed.

There are better, way better, investments.

WHEREAS, The United States is effectively the only country in the world that taxes foreign income of its citizens who are living abroad and who already pay taxes where they reside, creating enormous reporting burdens for American taxpayers living overseas, and putting them at great risk for penalties for even the slightest innocent mistake;

FATCA by reputation is significantly worse, but beg to differ about "only country". I have moved from Norway to Sweden but will still have to pay taxes to Norway for the next 3 (4) years.

Marginal lending facility    0.40 %
Main refinancing operations (fixed rate)    0.15 %
Deposit facility    − 0.10 %

The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years, Nature journal reports.

Blue-eyed, swarthy hunters mingled with brown-eyed, pale skinned farmers as the latter swept into Europe from the Near East.

But another, mysterious population with Siberian affinities also contributed to the genetic landscape of the continent.

The findings are based on analysis of genomes from nine ancient Europeans.

Agriculture originated in the Near East - in modern Syria, Iraq and Israel - before expanding into Europe around 7,500 years ago.

Multiple lines of evidence suggested this new way of life was spread by a wave of migrants, who interbred with the indigenous European hunter-gatherers they encountered on the way.

But assumptions about European origins were based largely on the genetic patterns of living people. The science of analysing genomic DNA from ancient bones has put some of the prevailing theories to the test, throwing up a few surprises.

We just received a letter by the bank about something called FATCA. The Republican Party seems to have the right idea about it:

Quote from: https://www.abolishfatca.com/live/RNC_FATCA_Resolution.pdf

WHEREAS, The United States is effectively the only country in the world that taxes foreign income of its citizens who are living abroad and who already pay taxes where they reside, creating enormous reporting burdens for American taxpayers living overseas, and putting them at great risk for penalties for even the slightest innocent mistake;

All the Separatist Movements

Quote from: jax on 2014-09-19, 08:15:05

All the Separatist Movements

All? That's a bold claim. For example, Wikipedia comes with a larger (but also slightly different?) number of active separatist movements.

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