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I don't speak it, but I'm told Dutch is very similar to English, at least grammatically.
It's not really. Half of English is Latin based, the other half is Germanic based. Dutch is a Germanic language so maybe that's where you're getting the idea from.
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You can subtract the cost of goods but you can’t subtract operating expenses like R&D.
Don't know about US VAT system, but for VAT in Europe expenses such as salaries etc are deductable.
With VAT, you can deduct from it all the other VAT that you paid. E.g. you bill someone 100 + 10% VAT for a total bill of 110. You receive 110. You are now supposed to pay that 10 VAT to the government. But before you pay it, you can subtract the VAT that you paid in the last month, so if you bought, say, scissors, that had a VAT of 2, and a pencil, with a VAT of 1, you have to pay a total VAT of 7 back to the government.
My take on this is that Ireland is now willing to come into compliance because post-Brexit, they now have a monopoly on "urban core that could sustain an HQ for multinationals in a natively-English-speaking country in the EU." In other words, they relied on tax advantages as a differentiator for companies to choose Dublin over London for their EU HQ. But now, what would you choose if not Dublin? Obviously Paris and B…
Dublin is a beautiful city. It is very small though, compared to London. Imagine moving Wall St from NYC to Austin TX.
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Yes? Imagine if you had a goal and I just showed up and made fun of people who you need to convince of your goal and get their support. That wouldn’t make you mad as I undermined you?
You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context. And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.
How so?
> And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.
When you talk down to people, tell them that they are uncivilized, and call them stupid or “deplorable” they’ll sink the entire ship and take themselves down with you just to spite you.
If you want nation healthcare, or any number of other things the exact wrong approach is this approach.
I think most people’s stance on guns or capitalism is downright stupid. You think if I say to someone who wants to ban AR-15s that they’re stupid and uncivilized that they’ll have an epiphany? I doubt it. They’ll double down. If I approach them with an approach to partner and find solutions to problems and understand their point of view, I’m far more likely to gain their support or at least sympathy. People are certainly messy, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that when you’re trying to get someone to do something that starting off telling them that they are stupid or uncivilized is a sure fire way to get them to do the opposite.
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If you’re a business and need to pay for a car to visit customers or suppliers, that comes off pre tax. If you’re an individual and need to pay for a car to go to the office or supermarket, that’s post tax.
And if you use a company car for personal use, you or your employer are supposed to pay tax on that activity.
Heating a home is post tax. Heating an office is pre tax.
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Good quip, but you’re of course ignoring the issue that democracies can sometimes trample minority rights. This is precisely the issue in this context, with Poland trying to pass anti-LGBTQ laws, and the EU trying to stop them. Democracies are often very convenient for coercing minorities into living the way the majority wants them to live.
I'm not ignoring any such thing, as Churchill famously said "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried". It's inconvenient even for those who are persuasive, but especially for those who are not and for those who are authoritarian - sets that tend to overlap, in my experience. As to Poland, there are no publicised plans for changes to laws that directly affec…
Ah, a straw man. Please don’t do that, it’s tiresome.
I’m not a fan of “stripping away democracy” per the words you tried to put into my mouth. I am however rather clear eyed about the drawbacks of democracies in how they tend to treat minorities. If that reads as being anti democracy to you, then there is no point in continuing this conversation.
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You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context. And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.
> You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context. How so? > And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.…
Because you weren't having a conversation with someone trying to convince them of anything, you jumped in to police the speech of someone expressing their frustration with the state of their nation.
>When you talk down to people, tell them that they are uncivilized, and call them stupid or “deplorable” they’ll sink the entire ship and take themselves down with you just to spite you.
And if you go around pissing off the people who are trying to achieve the same goals as you, they'll stop putting in any effort.
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Paris is not really much of English speaking city. (I travel to Paris often)
The French invented the term "Chauvinism" :) A big difference between the larger and smaller EU countries though is unrelated. The smallest countries don't have the budget for dubbing movies and TV series. This really helps with English proficiency in the smaller countries such as the Netherlands.
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No, that would have to be Scots. Especially compared to the region versions of English spoken in Northern England. It should not be too surprising, given that Scots in large part derived from Northumbrian Old English, with various admixtures including from Scandinavia. The versions of English spoken in Northern England also had a large input from Norse due to the Dane Law period, and that is part of what drove the ch…
Fair enough, but Dutch is a much more “major” language than Scots (which I believe even in Scotland only a small % of the population speak as their first/mother tongue rather than English).
So 1.5m out of 5.1m, which works out as 29%. I'd suggest these being folk who learnt it as their 'mother' tongue, since Scots is not taught as such in the school system.
I'm not sure how that and the 1.1% figure for use at home can be reconciled.
So if we take that 29% figure, despite being a minority, it is still in a better overall position than Gaelic.
One would expect that Scots could be fairly easily saved from extinction if it got official support, but there seems little political will within the Scottish establishment (Parliament and Government) to do so.
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> You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context. How so? > And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.…
>How so? Because you weren't having a conversation with someone trying to convince them of anything, you jumped in to police the speech of someone expressing their frustration with the state of their nation. >When you talk down to people, tell them that they are uncivilized, and call them stupid or “deplorable” they’ll sink the entire ship and take themselves down with you just to spite you. And if you go around piss…
So they were having a conversation and I’m not? I don’t really get your point.
> And if you go around pissing off the people who are trying to achieve the same goals as you, they'll stop putting in any effort.
…sure ok. I guess if they’re going to talk down to people and call them uncivilized then I’ll stop supporting the goal too. Everyone wins.