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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (17378)	5/31/2005 2:15:39 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

"2 second search" The special case of the mountains of Switzerland is a very old story in europe. Switzerland actually has some common aspects with the serbs,etc in former Yugoslavia (difficult terrain, like Afghanistan too, even during WW2, but mostly during WW1) "the Swiss suffered a maximum unemployment rate of 4.2 percent". EU has some special provisions for special (small) regions and their future, this includes many small special tax-evasion islands and territories. Gibraltar, Luxembourg, channel islands, etc, etc are almost ready plus later on the carribbean islands. HongKong is also an interesting example when there is not a great, huge market just over the border and the old english idea of no book keeping on neither imports and exports is not valid anymore. HongKong has additionally an interesting election system in their attempt to mix, balance PR and FTPT. However, I know that US is actually a very centralized system, most taxes go to Washington and it is difficult to figure out what happens then and there. It was sad that things got so dramatic that even more power had to be centralized in Washington in the 1960s. "There is a loser-pays provision for lawsuits" Seems everyone but USA has something like that. 2% of GDP for legal practices is said to be the greatest one on the planet. "what can the president do about it?" The US president is the only US institution that all US citizens can have a vote on. In the medieval times it was said that the last and only hope to handle the local feudal lords was to go directly to the King.