France tried exempting overtime from tax, as Reform now propose. It didn't work: https://www.ipp.eu/en/news/exempting-overtime-from-taxation-an-assessment-of-the-french-experiment/ (View Post)

Billions. Makes Peter Murrell’s fraud look trivial in comparison. (View Post)

"Pencil" in Russian is "карандаш", or "karandash". Caran d'Ache were the first to get pencils to Russia, so that became the name, like a hoover, aspirin or escalato… (View Post)

I had the same thought, but the first major act of embezzlement wasn't until 2016, unless there was more than the police didn't find out about. (View Post)

You can make up theoretical, "mathematically possible" scenarios where that happens, but it doesn't happen in practice. If the effective number of parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki… (View Post)