Toilet Paper Quotes
Romania had a mediocre small arms manufactureing capability but their weapons were not in great demand by governments around the world. However, there were illegal insurgent groups in many countries who would pay hard currency for arms that would b smuggled into various countries. Governments like Romania were not supposed to sell to these groups, but Romania did.
While the majority of the country approve of a financial transaction tax on the stock market, the financial industry has always fought it tooth and nail. It was a long tradition that the Barons and leading aristocrats lands were exempt from the taxes of the king, the most powerful forces in a democracy have lobbied to avoid taxation on their enterprises and finance is one of the very few business areas that have avoided taxation in America. Other than not liking taxes in general, Wall Street and the Banks argue that many financial transactions involve buying and selling securities in huge volume and making a tiny percentage on each share. If there were a tax of even a fraction of one percent, all these profitable trades would become unprofitable. Critics argue that that kind of speculating does not help the economy at all, and is what makes the discriminatory, unfair, computer trading possible and it would be a good reform to make that kind of trading unprofitable as more than 99 percent of the people cannot participate in it nor profit from it.
