Icelanders opt for exile(So who pays taxes?)

Telegraph ^ | 04/07/10 | Marc Preel

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Kartographer]

A would be American future, but there's no place else to go.

The United States of America the last stand on Earth and ‘Zero’ is giving it away or destroying it a little bit everyday.

[Jack Black]

Perhaps we should consider mass immigration to Iceland? At least as a base for our side in the coming conflict, if nohting else. Iceland might be ready to re-think some of the problems with the central-bank led socialist paradigmn that we are all stuck in.

[Incorrigible]

No future for Iceland?

[Dr. Ursus]

Yep,there’s ain’t no place to run anymore.Perhaps,NZ for
retirees?/

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’d tell not to come to America because we are about to experience the same thing here. Argentina, Greece, Iceland are all good examples of what happens when countries don’t listen to common sense.

[mlocher]

Bjoernsdottir

Who is Bjorn, and who is the mother of his daughter?

[mlocher]

"I just don't see any future here. There isn't going to be any future in this country for the next 20 years, everything is going backwards,"

Guam won't capsize, but apparently Iceland can.

[BikerJoe]

Perhaps we should consider mass immigration to Iceland?

We have to be careful, it might capsize...

[ccmay]

Who is Bjorn, and who is the mother of his daughter?

Iceland is the last place where the old Germanic custom of dynamic patronymics is used. This woman's father is Bjorn, and he will have a different surname such as 'Eriksen' reflecting his own father's name. The Norwegians did this up until a hundred years ago, and any time you meet a person with a static patronymic such as Johnson or Williamson you can hear the echo of our own Anglo-Saxon past.

[Jack Black]

Many countries don't really want retirees. The Caymans won't accept anyone for citizenship over age 60. Mostly, at that point, especially in a socialized medical system, your cost is going to outweigh your value.

Some places make special rules for people of independent means. Hard to see that many Americans (with our collapsing pension systems) are going to qualify for that, though.

[riri]

Ah yes, Norway, that golden land of opportunity and where McDonald’s for two will run you $50.

[mlocher]

Thanks. I remember this in the case of Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson. If memory serves me correctly, Eric the Red had a red beard and founded Iceland. Leif, I think, ended up in Vinland.

More to the point of the article, you said,

"you can hear the echo of our own Anglo-Saxon past."

I am concerned that what is going on in Iceland could very well be occuring to us in a handful of years.

[oh8eleven]

lamented the 46-year-old single mother
Doesn't anyone get married before having children anymore?

[Jack Black]

What we can learn from Iceland experience:

1. Taking loans in a foreign currency is a bad idea.
2. In real democratic republics citizens are given a vote
before huge bailouts are given to a small group.

[griswold3]

“I just don’t see any future here. There isn’t going to be any future in this country for the next 20 years, everything is going backwards,”

Anyone thinking about leaving the US should check into the immigration policies of the host country. Very few allow foreigners to become gainfully employed. Also, the US is stopping capital at the border. There is now fees (30%) in place just in case you may be trying to dodge your tax liability.
As always, America is the world’s last best hope for freedom.

[fightinJAG]

Hello. We Americans have no place to go. This is, as Reagan said, the last stand for freedom on Earth.

[Mich Patriot]

Who is John Galt?