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Old 10-11-2014, 18:01   #200
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Re: EU demand extra £1.7bn from UK

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
So the £76 million profit is less than 1% of income
Your point is? Zero is a lot less than 76 million.

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So a company makes a profit running a service? Was the (government owned) tote ever run as a not for profit?

If you don't agree with the lottery's makeup, then don't play it (I don't).
I don't play it for a number of reasons but that's not the point. The point was the Lottery could have been run as a non-profit operation ..

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You guess wrongly. "Libertarian" and "Authoritarian" are two well-understood terms from the realm of political science, used to describe one's predilection for using the power of the State to force patterns of behaviour on its citizens, or not.



Yes, that's a very good example of how you don't understand what you're talking about.

Wow, do you always insult people when they have an opinion contrary to your own?
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