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On May 4, 1:19*am, Nobody wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:12:04 +0100, Arthur Figgis wrote: On 03/05/2012 14:00, wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT) *wrote: On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT) *wrote: The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are about to impose taxes on it. For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan= cial services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced. No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). *This is businesss the UK can hardly afford to lose. If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things. In the bigger picture, every industry is chickenfeed. A billion Chinamen might consider the entire UK population to be pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. gulp Chinamen? Even before "political correctness" that was low. |
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On Thu, 3 May 2012 22:30:11 -0700 (PDT), e27002
wrote: On May 4, 1:19*am, Nobody wrote: On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:12:04 +0100, Arthur Figgis wrote: On 03/05/2012 14:00, wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2012 05:02:57 -0700 (PDT) *wrote: On May 3, 12:44=A0pm, wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2012 03:38:34 -0700 (PDT) *wrote: The financial services sector still brings in business, but HMG are about to impose taxes on it. For anyone with short memories - the investment banking part of the finan= cial services sector has cost this country billions in bail out money which we still haven't recouped. Any sympathy for it is misplaced. No sympathy, but London is still the major financial transaction center (New York is number 2, Chicago number 3). *This is businesss the UK can hardly afford to lose. If we're not taxing it sufficiently then what benefit does it serve? A few thousand jobs is chickenfeed in the scheme of things. In the bigger picture, every industry is chickenfeed. A billion Chinamen might consider the entire UK population to be pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. gulp Chinamen? Even before "political correctness" that was low. Xie xie... I can safely go back to my chop suey and chow mein now. I thought I wuz being overly sensitive. |
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