Wasn't the old Harold Wilson approach to raise the tax rate to about 99% so everybody suddenly decided they were citizens of Ireland or Guernsey <s>
>>>>>Ann Coulter says she's on her way to Paris, now that a conservative rules. Maybe we could get her to do that?<g>
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>>>>Maybe we could get her to stay. We have been keeping her to ourselves for too long.
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>>>You took the words out of my mouth.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Remember all the people who promised to leave the country if Bush were elected? Naw, ain't gonna happen. ( besides if Ann leaves it may complicate my attempts to arrange that nude mud-wrestling match between her and Maureen Dowd on pay-per-view )
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>There were a bunch of them in GB too, who said the same about if Blair got in. Unfortunately they didn't follow it up (funny how they were all celbs people love to hate).
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>Au contraire, the opposite has happend in France, with the aging popstar, Johnny Halliday perported to be returning, now that his tax rate will be capped at 50%.
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