The EU is considering taxing the European financial sector to shore up its sagging fiscal house. Up until now, banking has been exempt from the VAT. But all that may change, with a tax levied on each financial transaction.
In other news, the Gallup polling organization reports that unemployment in the USA has risen to 10.1%.
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Great take done on the sentencing Judge’s (of Faisal Shahzad aka the would be Times Square Bomber) pronouncement of the famous Warrior Islamic Imperialist Salahudin as “a moderate Muslim who didnt want to kill people.”
Via Solomonia
All Rise! The Dhimmi Court is Now in Session. [Hillel]