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  • The problem with the French is they have no word for entrepreneur

    With a 75% tax rate. They won't have any either.
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    The top marginal rate in the US used to be 90%. Somehow, the Republic survived.
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    • #3
      I was wondering if the thread title was supposed to be mocking some American politican who said it...
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
        The top marginal rate in the US used to be 90%. Somehow, the Republic survived.
        And as is well known, there were no entrepeneurs in the 50s and 60s.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post
          I was wondering if the thread title was supposed to be mocking some American politican who said it...
          After some googling, it's a fake Bushism.
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          • #6
            French

            I bet that due to lack of enterpreneurship France has been hit less than UK in the recent recession, has a bigger economy despite of not being an "oil" nation, not to mention all the bordeline communist worker protection laws, national health service which actually works and yes... language that Americans do not speak... Shocking I tell you.

            It must be all the good food that saves them from economic collapse.
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            • #7
              What else do the French produce _other_ than food and food-related products?
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              • #8
                Designer handbags?
                John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                • #9
                  Those dirty commies have more than 2 million millionaires living there.

                  They eat all the food which the other 50 million French produce and this is all there is - 5th largest economy in the world

                  OK, that and all the nuclear power plants.
                  Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                  GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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                  • #10
                    Cowards?
                    You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
                      What else do the French produce _other_ than food and food-related products?
                      Fragrance
                      Cars
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
                        What else do the French produce _other_ than food and food-related products?
                        40% of an airplane....
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                        • #13
                          See, if France had reasonable tax rates, they'd be able to afford to build more than 40% of an airplane.
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                          • #14
                            good on the french.

                            and good on hollande too. politicians keeping their promises.
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                            • #15
                              Countries poorer than Arkansas
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