Posted on 12/09/2012 2:56:16 PM PST by george76
A Swazi Member of Parliament has urged the government to hike taxes on traditional healers and soothsayers to help solve a funding crisis in Africa's last absolute monarchy.
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Swaziland's budget deficit ballooned to 15 percent of its annual economic output in 2010 but the government managed to keep itself afloat by running through central bank reserves and delaying payment of wages to civil servants.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) declined to launch a bailout because of reluctance by King Mswati III, who has at least a dozen wives and a personal fortune estimated at $200 million, to cut royal or military spending.
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Don't let Obama know. My witch doctor is the only one I can afford with Obama raising taxes on medical equipment and my medical doctor's personal income.
Humans are such...humans!
Having lived in South Africa and been to Swaziland on business over a dozen times I can tell you with certainty that their “crisis” is a manufactured one caused solely by a morally bankrupt and slimy king who is sitting on gold and more. He is too busy having 900 maidens dance for him annually (topless reed dance) so that the pig can select his next wife to lavishly spend money on while he rents a Boeing BBJ to fly around the world in as his people dies from the highest AIDS rate in the world and stave for lack of income...but I digress.
Having lived in South Africa and been to Swaziland on business over a dozen times I can tell you with certainty that their “crisis” is a manufactured one caused solely by a morally bankrupt and slimy king who is sitting on gold and more. He is too busy having 900 maidens dance for him annually (topless reed dance) so that the pig can select his next wife to lavishly spend money on while he rents a Boeing BBJ to fly around the world in as his people dies from the highest AIDS rate in the world and stave for lack of income...but I digress.
This could cast a spell over the Swazi witchdoctor industry.
Swaziland has a total-debt-to-annual-GDP ratio of 15%... and they're "in trouble". The United States has gone from 45% (in 2007) to 105% (in 2011), and not much is said about it. (The IMF defines 125% as "unsustainable".)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) declined to launch a bailout because of reluctance by King Mswati III, who has at least a dozen wives and a personal fortune estimated at $200 million, to cut royal or military spending.
I wonder what they will ask King Obama to give up.
perhaps Obummer is taking notes.
be quiet, for goodness; sakes!
a tax that HusseinO hasn’t thought of imposing on America yet?
ssssshhhhhh!!!!! keep your voice down!
It’s time for the Swaziland witch doctors to “go Galt”.
Isn’t there a witch doctors union of some kind?
Amalgamated Federation of Witch Healing.
Up the AFWH!
In this country they are called “liberals”
Too slow .... read the law carefully, I’m sure there’s a tax in there for witch doctors.
Does anyone know how Obamacare affects Witch Doctors here in the USA? Will the current rate of one visit per bottle of Neutered Albanian Albino Goat Urine go up or stay the same? Also, I heard that Obamacare provides 2 free psychic readings per week. Can anyone confirm? Free phones, free medical care and free psychic readings....we are so blessed to have Obama as our leader! What else could we possibly need?
Does anyone know how Obamacare affects Witch Doctors here in the USA? Will the current rate of one visit per bottle of Neutered Albanian Albino Goat Urine go up or stay the same? Also, I heard that Obamacare provides 2 free psychic readings per week. Can anyone confirm? Free phones, free medical care and free psychic readings....we are so blessed to have Obama as our leader! What else could we possibly need?
Oh. Without my glasses I thought the title said “Switzerland.”
Never mind.
This one maybe?
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Ting, tang, wala wala bing bang.
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