President Bush said the USA would "smoke out" bin Laden.
German finance minister Hans Eichel seesm to take it
literally: he has announced a new terror tax on tobacco. The
extra tax, about 2 euro-cent on each cigarette, will finance
a new anti-terror fund. (Nervous chain-smoking terrorists
will help pay for their own capture).
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,158052,00.html
The existing insurance tax will also be raised. As I said,
many more weird proposals can be expected in the coming weeks.
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Paul Treanor
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