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Abolish all taxes!

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How can I read Engadget then?]]>May 28th 2008 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
god would be constantly trolling though, like
'YAWN, I ALREADY KNEW THAT< NEWS PLEASE!'
he wouldn't unlock caps for shit]]>May 28th 2008 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/-2 ninja points.]]>May 28th 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
Why the hell would I need I.E. 7? Now 8 (when it's ready) maybe or Firefox but splain to me what is so special about 7?

Thanks Matthew that fixed it.]]>May 28th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/-2 ninja points.]]>May 28th 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
We save them from Communism and poor trillions into their defense and economies only to have them cheat us at every turn in our trade dealings?

We already have bases in Europe, and if they don't bow to the demands of Justice, I think we should use them.]]>May 28th 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
What with its hands full with the alleged 'war on terror' included in that the mess that is Iraq and the close to failed state Afghanistan the best thing that American could possibly do would fight a war against Europe.

I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic, nothing like advocating World War Three between the most powerful country in the world and all of the European Union.

Hilarious.]]>May 28th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/Anyway you're just angry because you're in recession.

That said I am pro free trade. I am especially disappointed by our failure to reform the CAP, for instance. ]]>May 28th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
and all over...uh..tarrffs and stuff. i think you win the Internet Douche of the Day award]]>May 28th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
Who is failing in Afghanistan? Whose Army is spread so thin they can't commit anywhere else and have to send in their national guards abroad? I am not Anti-US but when I such ignorant comments I have to retaliate, being an American myself.

Save Europe from Communism? OMG it's the COMMIES! We pour trillions into their defense and economies? You do realize the US is the country with the most international debt?]]>May 28th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
So taxes are no small issue. ]]>May 28th 2008 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/"We made you, if it wasn't for us you'd all be native americans hunting n shit"

funny, I didn't realize you were god, surely no one else can make Americans, but hopefully you realize most Americans are descendants of Europeans, and Europeans didn't build this country Americans did.

@Nicolas
"You do realize the US is the country with the most international debt?"
Yes, but many times the US has given money without ever expecting to be repaid -WW2 anyone or the Marshall plan?]]>May 28th 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
who the fuck writes that? my god, you sound like David Cross impersonating John Ashcroft.

parents, please tell your kids not to steal other kids' lunch money. the victims will grow up to talk like Mark.]]>May 28th 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
(and yes, I'm a classical liberal socialist and I find both the ideas of extreme communism and extreme capitalism wrong, so when a capitalist claims to have saved me from communism, I don't think it would have been any better if communist claimed to have saved me from capitalism, I don't need neither the first nor the second. And I especially don't need to hear 13-year olds claiming to have saved me from capitalism, since even their fathers still went to college when that war was fought. My grand-grand-grand-grand father also saved an Iraqi from drowning 200 years ago and I don't go now around Iraqi sites claiming "You're being evil to us and you would have drowned if it wasn't for us". That's just ridiculous)

Anyway, back to the topic: Yes, the EU government is rigid, too large and too unefficient, and somebody should solve this stupidity, because we're paying every technical item almost 50% more than the folks in america (not just for american products, but even for the ones made in Japan), just because this unnecessary large bureaucratic body needs money for all those unnecessary employees. But then again, as we can see, every government has it's own problems, so both people from EU and USA should not criticize each others government but try to see errors in their own governing bodies.]]>May 28th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
All in all I found it, and all the replies following, quite amusing.]]>May 28th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
And before anyone goes into to my bias I'm an American who goes to school in Ireland...so don't go there.]]>May 29th 2008 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
After WWII, it was decreed that Germany could halt payments until reunification, but West Germany took it upon themselves to repay the principal by 1980, and started repaying the interest in 1995, after reunification. The debt will finally be paid off in 2010, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Not only did the US expect to be paid back for helping fight a war, but they caused a second war by their greed. In a way, you can almost blame WWII on American greed, though you'd be ignoring a few other strange circumstances.]]>May 29th 2008 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
In the beginning, there was Europe. Then Europe ran out of room, and spread to the rest of the world. The rest of the world having been built, America decided it wouldn't be European anymore.

In 1939, Europe started infighting. Britain stood alone against the fascists, and pretty much everyone under 22 was dead or fighting. But that was okay, because the US has sent over 240 flyboys who has been rejected from the USAF. Being desperate, the RAF trained these squadrons and gave them spitfires, which they promptly took back to the states after pearl harbor. Britain and the states then decided to help fight each others battles, with Australian forces proving of particular value in the pacific.

Where in that is there some hollywood star yelling "YEE-HAW!" and firing the shot that blows up the nazi death star and saving Europe single handedly?]]>May 29th 2008 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
WTF? This is a trade dispute, not the Bush administration at work.]]>May 28th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 28th 2008 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
Yes lets go to war to sort out TRADE, that makes sense.
I love all the Americans scared of the EU, and where does the UK come out in all this ? We are Americas biggest ally (in both Iraq and Afganistan, M16 helped set up the CIA etc.) and a member of the EU so what way does that go ?
Do Americans learn anything in school apart from creationism and how to spread democracy straight from the fridge ?]]>May 28th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
Yes.]]>May 28th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
and what about these companies selling us (europeans) their stuff with a price where 1$ = 1€ ? They don't seem to complain about that.]]>May 29th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/May 29th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/us-files-complaint-with-wto-over-eu-tariffs-on-high-tech-product/
Pete Murphy
Author, Five Short Blasts
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The US lost at every last single trade court, and still screwed Canada(the companies, the people) out of billions, because they feel they don't have to comply with the ruling that their tariffs were indeed illegal, but instead undermined decades of negotiations, and toss a few million back while still pocketing billions.

Now look who is crying and hoping the international trade courts will back them up. Bunch of hypocrits, I do say.]]>May 29th 2008 4:31PM