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The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

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Re: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

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”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.” You sure about that math, cumex-files?

Just arrived to make the exact same comment.

Overstated a 1000 times, which suggests they are mistaking the new US-style billion of 1000 million for the old form of a billion (i.e. a million million).

Re: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

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”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.” You sure about that math, cumex-files?

What? Denmark is a small town of 5,700 people, isn't it?

edit: Then I got curious about what size a 'town' is, which led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_hierarchy which gave me the word 'Ecumenopolis' for a planet-wide city.

Re: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

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”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.” You sure about that math, cumex-files?

Yeah, due to a very poor birthrate, the Danish population is currently at an all time low of ~5700 souls.

Re: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

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”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.” You sure about that math, cumex-files?

Possibly confusion by someone who's used to the long scale? In Danish, as in most non-English European languages, the cognate of "billion" means trillion (10^12).

Re: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

#9

”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.” You sure about that math, cumex-files?

Just arrived to make the exact same comment. Overstated a 1000 times, which suggests they are mistaking the new US-style billion of 1000 million for the old form of a billion (i.e. a million million).

I think the different 'billions' are called long and short scales.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Re: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

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”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.” You sure about that math, cumex-files?

Yeah, due to a very poor birthrate, the Danish population is currently at an all time low of ~5700 souls.

And thats why they need muh immigration.

jk

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