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Old May 4th 12, 01:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.railway
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On May 4, 10:02*am, wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT)

e27002 wrote:
If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A fe=

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thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things.


Sort of: to hell with the foreign currency reserves and balance of
payents benefit.


There are 3 ways a private company or corporation contributes to a state:

1) The goods and services it buys or sells.
2) The tax it pays
3) The jobs it creates

For investment banking 3 is negligable, 2 is probably a lot less than it could
be and 1 , while useful , is hardly the pivot on which the whole economy turns.
The usefulness of The City in this country is vastly overstated.

So there is now a way to import oil purchased with pounds sterling?