If democratic governments are not committed to the abolition of such regimes sooner or later, by some means or other then their foreign policies are not worth much.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

"How I would, by some means of telepathy or other magical means, be able to orchestrate, first of all to be able to provoke a dispute - heaven knows how I would even want to, let alone be able to provoke a dispute - and then intervene in it so that when there was a deal it then collapsed, I don't know, " he said.

BBC: Mail boss asks for 'common sense'

The problems are that many states already have a sales tax (9.6% average rate in 2010), which means that the combined rate would either be 39.6% or that states would have to generate income by some other means.

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