BrianH wrote in news:d40f0$47dcc922$544bb5cd$13325
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Many products are zero-rated, such as food, children's
clothes, books, etc and other products/services have
differing percentage groups.


Thank you for the information. I have an old friend in his 80s from Thun,
Berner Oberland, and he wants to take me with him to visit the few old
friends he has left before it's his turn. With the dollar so weak, I'm not
sure that will ever happen again, but I'd love to go. He says, "These are
not Swiss people. They all speak GERMAN, not Swiss German!" His German is
before television and his Swiss friends who come here to visit him all
comment on his old version of the language.

In South Carolina, the 8.5% sales tax is on EVERYTHING, including
food/clothes/other staples of life. They take it and keep it. We don't
pay sales tax on fuel, though. It's not enough for them. We pay fixed
34.5c/gallon on gasoline and 39.7c/gallon on diesel...but not at the
marinas where red tractor diesel is sold, like the farmers use, without the
"road tax" that's siphoned off to support the vote buying system...rather
than put into road maintenance where it was supposed to go. Our roads are
falling apart because of it.

When Werner came back from Thun last time, a few years ago, I was looking
through the pictures from the streets and told him it looked fake! There
wasn't even a single piece of paper in the gutters. Near the last picture,
I went, "AHA! I see one!". There was a piece of paper in the street
behind the friends he was taking a picture of....but there was a little old
lady poised over it about to pick it up...(c; Thun has got to be one of
the cleanest cities on the planet. The views are simply amazingly
beautiful. I want to go sailing on the Thunersee!

Do they really stop at a stopligiht and shut the engines off where you
live? They do that in Thun, then restart to go. I still think he was
joking.

Larry wrote:
BrianH wrote in news:d40f0$47dcc922$544bb5cd$13325
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When Werner came back from Thun last time, a few years ago, I was looking
through the pictures from the streets and told him it looked fake! There
wasn't even a single piece of paper in the gutters. Near the last picture,
I went, "AHA! I see one!". There was a piece of paper in the street
behind the friends he was taking a picture of....but there was a little old
lady poised over it about to pick it up...(c; Thun has got to be one of
the cleanest cities on the planet. The views are simply amazingly
beautiful. I want to go sailing on the Thunersee!

Because of the mountains on either shore the wind is
generally N/S along the lake, it's certainly quite a
backdrop, especially to the south with the Eiger, Mönch and
Jungfrau mountains hanging there. I used to race from the
Interlaken end (I live in Bern). Now I'm retired I take off
for the Med, living aboard for the summers.

But you might be disappointed with the present cleanliness
of Switzerland, it's no longer quite how Werner tells it,
unfortunately.

Do they really stop at a stopligiht and shut the engines off where you
live? They do that in Thun, then restart to go. I still think he was
joking.

Well, some do, and all the signs fixed on the traffic lights
request you do so, but just as many people don't. An
enormous influx of foreigners has internationalized the
mentality - meaning there is no longer the strict discipline
that Werner epitomized. There are pros and cons to that
(mainly cons, I'm afraid).

Best, BrianH.

BrianH wrote in news:201ad$47dd4fc5$544bb5cd$29315
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Well, some do, and all the signs fixed on the traffic lights
request you do so, but just as many people don't. An
enormous influx of foreigners has internationalized the
mentality - meaning there is no longer the strict discipline
that Werner epitomized. There are pros and cons to that
(mainly cons, I'm afraid).

Best, BrianH.


I got Werner on the internet a few years ago. In my first email to him, I
sent him off to the Follies Bergiere, a whorehouse in Thun. HE KNEW
EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS! It was in what was his neighborhood before WW2 when
he and his wife and son fled to Canada fearful of Hitler's Reich. They are
really fine people...(c;

American music seems responsible for a lot of the pollution on Swiss radio
channels. But, alas, the Swiss have retaliated, quite successfully!
http://www.volksmusiknet.ch/
NOONE can be sad listening to accordion music....(c;

Larry,

If you like accordians then you must like tubas and yodeling. Check out this
wonderful, popular European polka group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhV41tvF0qw

Phil

Vote for Ron Paul!!!

"Phil Abuster" wrote in message
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Larry,

If you like accordians then you must like tubas and yodeling. Check out
this wonderful, popular European polka group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhV41tvF0qw

Phil

Vote for Ron Paul!!!



Ron Paul's toast! But those two blondes in the video (cha-ching!) why, they
make Horvath's flat-chested stripper look like a boy!

--
Gregory Hall

"Phil Abuster" wrote in
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Larry,

If you like accordians then you must like tubas and yodeling. Check
out this wonderful, popular European polka group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhV41tvF0qw

Phil

Vote for Ron Paul!!!




I've played the accordions, 5 different species of them, since I was 8 back
in....well, never mind when.

Thanks for the pointer. Search You Tube for band organs some night. Great
fun listening to band organs, especially in Holland where the real monsters
are located.

On Mar 16, 8:40*pm, Larry wrote:
BrianH wrote in news:201ad$47dd4fc5$544bb5cd$29315
@news.hispeed.ch:

I got Werner on the internet a few years ago. *In my first email to him, I
sent him off to the Follies Bergiere, a whorehouse in Thun. *HE KNEW
EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS!


Why not? He may have been a customer - a large proportion of the
population admit to patronizing such establishments.

Switzerland is very laid-back about prostitution - it is quite legal
if registered. The Swiss will not miss a trick (?) when it comes to
taxing ALL incomes.
Working girls can get a temporary work permit, they are called
"dancers" and flock in from eastern European countries.

Best, B.

wrote in news:13345b74-4e57-4c63-bfa6-a4a38f181521
@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:

Switzerland is very laid-back about prostitution - it is quite legal
if registered. The Swiss will not miss a trick (?) when it comes to
taxing ALL incomes.
Working girls can get a temporary work permit, they are called
"dancers" and flock in from eastern European countries.



Ah, those dark haired beauties. I was married for 17 years to a hot-
tempered Hungarian black-haired beauty. I see their point...(c;

America is a tight assed pseudo theocracy that thinks the earth is 6000
years old, dispite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Everything but
the missionary position between marrieds is a sin, and we have the laws to
prove it. Iran only beats us because they stone the sinners.