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Post by spitthedog on May 18, 2021 15:53:15 GMT
I'm returning a headset microphone to a (fantastic) company in Germany for a repair after a bit of an accident
Pre Brexit : Put it in a box, stick a label on it and post it.
Post Brexit : .... Please read the following instructions carefully. It is very important to follow the instructions below regarding the customs declaration as missing documents for customs can cause extra charges and returns can take longer to process. Due to the recent departure of Great Britain from the European Union, a free movement of goods is unfortunately no longer possible and specific customs treatment processes need to be considered. We will do our best to provide the most support possible. Since you are living in a third country or in a special customs area, customs need to be informed about this return. For this you need to declare the item at your local customs office and ascertain its identity (e.g. through its serial number, name, etc.). The payment of customs duties and taxes can be saved after presentation of the documents when the repaired item is being returned to you. Unfortunately this is not possible for replacement items as they are classified as new goods by the customs authorities. So they will raise new customs duties and taxes. You will receive further information concerning the customs handling procedure at your local customs office. For the return please print out all of the attached documents three times (original invoice, Pro-Forma invoice, confirmation letter) and proceed as follows: 1. please present the three documents to the customs authority 2. attach them in an envelope to the outside of the parcel 3. include the three documents inside of the parcel. In case you have several returning parcels please inform us prior to the shipment. Please provide us with the details confirming which items are in which parcel. With this information we can provide you with the correct Pro-forma invoices as these need to correspond to the content inside the parcel.
Absolutely fantastic, never felt so FREE!!!
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Post by mrcoke on May 18, 2021 16:17:55 GMT
I'm returning a headset microphone to a (fantastic) company in Germany for a repair after a bit of an accident Pre Brexit : Put it in a box, stick a label on it and post it. Post Brexit : .... Please read the following instructions carefully. It is very important to follow the instructions below regarding the customs declaration as missing documents for customs can cause extra charges and returns can take longer to process. Due to the recent departure of Great Britain from the European Union, a free movement of goods is unfortunately no longer possible and specific customs treatment processes need to be considered. We will do our best to provide the most support possible. Since you are living in a third country or in a special customs area, customs need to be informed about this return. For this you need to declare the item at your local customs office and ascertain its identity (e.g. through its serial number, name, etc.). The payment of customs duties and taxes can be saved after presentation of the documents when the repaired item is being returned to you. Unfortunately this is not possible for replacement items as they are classified as new goods by the customs authorities. So they will raise new customs duties and taxes. You will receive further information concerning the customs handling procedure at your local customs office. For the return please print out all of the attached documents three times (original invoice, Pro-Forma invoice, confirmation letter) and proceed as follows: 1. please present the three documents to the customs authority 2. attach them in an envelope to the outside of the parcel 3. include the three documents inside of the parcel. In case you have several returning parcels please inform us prior to the shipment. Please provide us with the details confirming which items are in which parcel. With this information we can provide you with the correct Pro-forma invoices as these need to correspond to the content inside the parcel. Absolutely fantastic, never felt so FREE!!!I agree this is very unsatisfactory so where do go from here: 1. Buy British 2. Buy another country's product that will provide service such as Japan, S Korea, American. (How on earth do those countries and most of the world manage to survive outside the EU? ). 3. When the EU realise they are hurting themselves as much as their former British customers, they will be more cooperative in years to come, but in the meantime they need to punish the British for leaving the EU despite it damaging their £60 billion pa trade benefit. 4. The European economic growth rate is the slowest continent in the world (apart from Antartica!). It's hardly surprising with the barriers to trade it has created with the Commission regulation bureaucracy machine. Life's going to be difficult for a while whilst trade and economies adjust.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 18, 2021 22:15:49 GMT
Don’t expect rwb to 1) remember anything much from other threads or 2) understand any of the complexities of the realities of life. He likes everything nice and simple. Which may help explain his blossoming relationship with Huddy who, if not particularly nice compensates with a monumental level of simplicity. Gosh, you're spending a disturbing amount of time imagining all this, partick! Let it go, try to lighten up a bit, you'll probably feel better and look a little less childish too. Impossible, notice when the Scottish melt has lost the plot and the argument he resorts to childish name calling. What a baby.
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Post by thevoid on May 18, 2021 23:28:54 GMT
Gosh, you're spending a disturbing amount of time imagining all this, partick! Let it go, try to lighten up a bit, you'll probably feel better and look a little less childish too. Impossible, notice when the Scottish melt has lost the plot and the argument he resorts to childish name calling. What a baby. You do realise you've just resorted to childish name calling in your last post and are the biggest cry baby on here? You refuse to engage people in civilized debate and just throw insults about when you're not posting Twitter links and MEMEs (yes I know, I insult too but that's to a select few dicks who deserve it- at least I can debate with people I feel it's worth debating with). You're just the left wing equivalent of Crapslayer. White noise that everyone laughs at. Fuck me, even Vokeswagen and your mate RWB offer a bit of substance occasionally, and that's saying something. You offer nothing. Zilch. I don't expect a reply- I don't want one- but I'm astonished that someone with such remedial people skills such as yourself made it as a teacher. I can only assume it was in something less cerebral such as PE or making stuff out of wood 😀
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Post by followyoudown on May 19, 2021 8:27:37 GMT
Impossible, notice when the Scottish melt has lost the plot and the argument he resorts to childish name calling. What a baby. You do realise you've just resorted to childish name calling in your last post and are the biggest cry baby on here? You refuse to engage people in civilized debate and just throw insults about when you're not posting Twitter links and MEMEs (yes I know, I insult too but that's to a select few dicks who deserve it- at least I can debate with people I feel it's worth debating with). You're just the left wing equivalent of Crapslayer. White noise that everyone laughs at. Fuck me, even Vokeswagen and your mate RWB offer a bit of substance occasionally, and that's saying something. You offer nothing. Zilch. I don't expect a reply- I don't want one- but I'm astonished that someone with such remedial people skills such as yourself made it as a teacher. I can only assume it was in something less cerebral such as PE or making stuff out of wood 😀 I assumed he was an art teacher, was going to make a joke about him being a blank canvas but when I looked up the definition as being a person or thing that has nothing of substance or permanence within or imprinted on them that can be easily filled with entirely new things I realised this would be more of an analogy than a joke
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 19, 2021 8:34:41 GMT
Impossible, notice when the Scottish melt has lost the plot and the argument he resorts to childish name calling. What a baby. You do realise you've just resorted to childish name calling in your last post and are the biggest cry baby on here? You refuse to engage people in civilized debate and just throw insults about when you're not posting Twitter links and MEMEs (yes I know, I insult too but that's to a select few dicks who deserve it- at least I can debate with people I feel it's worth debating with). You're just the left wing equivalent of Crapslayer. White noise that everyone laughs at. Fuck me, even Vokeswagen and your mate RWB offer a bit of substance occasionally, and that's saying something. You offer nothing. Zilch. I don't expect a reply- I don't want one- but I'm astonished that someone with such remedial people skills such as yourself made it as a teacher. I can only assume it was in something less cerebral such as PE or making stuff out of wood 😀 Empty drums make more sound Amazing how the flagshagging gammons get so hissy on here innit?
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Post by crapslinger on May 19, 2021 8:42:30 GMT
You do realise you've just resorted to childish name calling in your last post and are the biggest cry baby on here? You refuse to engage people in civilized debate and just throw insults about when you're not posting Twitter links and MEMEs (yes I know, I insult too but that's to a select few dicks who deserve it- at least I can debate with people I feel it's worth debating with). You're just the left wing equivalent of Crapslayer. White noise that everyone laughs at. Fuck me, even Vokeswagen and your mate RWB offer a bit of substance occasionally, and that's saying something. You offer nothing. Zilch. I don't expect a reply- I don't want one- but I'm astonished that someone with such remedial people skills such as yourself made it as a teacher. I can only assume it was in something less cerebral such as PE or making stuff out of wood 😀 Empty drums make more sound Amazing how the flagshagging gammons get so hissy on here innit? Like these racist flagshaggers Sir. Attachment Deleted
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Post by thevoid on May 19, 2021 9:27:54 GMT
You do realise you've just resorted to childish name calling in your last post and are the biggest cry baby on here? You refuse to engage people in civilized debate and just throw insults about when you're not posting Twitter links and MEMEs (yes I know, I insult too but that's to a select few dicks who deserve it- at least I can debate with people I feel it's worth debating with). You're just the left wing equivalent of Crapslayer. White noise that everyone laughs at. Fuck me, even Vokeswagen and your mate RWB offer a bit of substance occasionally, and that's saying something. You offer nothing. Zilch. I don't expect a reply- I don't want one- but I'm astonished that someone with such remedial people skills such as yourself made it as a teacher. I can only assume it was in something less cerebral such as PE or making stuff out of wood 😀 Empty drums make more sound Amazing how the flagshagging gammons get so hissy on here innit? The prosecution rests 😎 My understanding is that a gammon is a white person of a certain age who is always angry about stuff. You fit the bill perfectly. Grow the fuck up 😀
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Post by followyoudown on May 19, 2021 10:23:13 GMT
Empty drums make more sound Amazing how the flagshagging gammons get so hissy on here innit? The prosecution rests 😎 My understanding is that a gammon is a white person of a certain age who is always angry about stuff. You fit the bill perfectly. Grow the fuck up 😀 The Far left just love their casual racism.....
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 19, 2021 12:05:58 GMT
Empty drums make more sound Amazing how the flagshagging gammons get so hissy on here innit? The prosecution rests 😎 My understanding is that a gammon is a white person of a certain age who is always angry about stuff. You fit the bill perfectly. Grow the fuck up 😀 Poor attempt at deflection mate, really poor.
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Post by thevoid on May 19, 2021 12:08:50 GMT
The prosecution rests 😎 My understanding is that a gammon is a white person of a certain age who is always angry about stuff. You fit the bill perfectly. Grow the fuck up 😀 Poor attempt at deflection mate, really poor. I'm not deflecting in any way, shape or form mate.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 19, 2021 12:25:43 GMT
Poor attempt at deflection mate, really poor. I'm not deflecting in any way, shape or form mate. QED.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 19, 2021 13:13:54 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on May 19, 2021 13:34:12 GMT
I've heard it said, but can't find a reference, that there is a huge number of UK citizens have decided not to return to work or their old job. The reasons given are not wanting to go back to environment they were working in (rat race, office, keyboard, work colleagues etc.), not wanting to commute, work away from home, etc., or quite simply are at an age when the children have left home and they don't need to go back to full-time employment and just find a part time job. Some have changed jobs during the pandemic such as delivery work and prefer to stay in their new job even if it isn't as financially rewarding. I saw a comment that this applied to circa 800,000 people, but it might have been pure speculation.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 19, 2021 15:32:29 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on May 19, 2021 17:04:03 GMT
I don't know where your tweeter gets his data from, maybe you could advise. Based on government figures at circa £1 billion pa, the increase in exports would increase GDP by 0.03%, but as we all know forcasts are never 100% correct. Over a million Australians were born in the UK and it is reasonable to be confident in increased exports, but at the end of the day that will depend on companies investing and selling there. As I've posted before, governments have never sold/exported anything, neither have university dons who spend time on twitter. 0.01% of gdp is quite at lot actually. As for the risks to UK agriculture I believe that is another example of project fear. The UK imports twice as much beef as it exports. Most UK customers are very loyal to buying British beef as are a long list of supermarket chains like Morrisons. Even though we had been in the EU for over four decades we imported significant amounts of lamb from New Zealand. The Australian Premier says they don't have massive surpluses of beef to export. The government have promised a green revolution of UK agriculture and an end to the CAP which sees billions of £ going to the richest land owners like the Queen you'll be pleased to know, and massive destruction of nature by intensive farming. Now we are out of the EU the government have to restructure agriculture/farming the way Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies did when we turned our backs on them in the 1970s. They have already started to introduce measures on animal welfare, now we are out of the EU. A deal with Australia is a stepping stone to more lucrative trade deals in the Pacific region and Asia, where the bulk of world growth lies. Singapore is the logistical centre of the world for deep sea transportation. Those nations are not begging for UK goods and services, but the potential sales are massive, just look at how our exports were growing pre pandemic, despite the barriers the UK placed in the way of imports from them as a member of the EU. I'm confident as soon as we improve trading conditions with them, we can dramatically reduce our unhealthy massive trade deficit with the EU, of which of course the EU is afraid.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 19, 2021 20:26:15 GMT
I don't know where your tweeter gets his data from, maybe you could advise. Based on government figures at circa £1 billion pa, the increase in exports would increase GDP by 0.03%, but as we all know forcasts are never 100% correct. Over a million Australians were born in the UK and it is reasonable to be confident in increased exports, but at the end of the day that will depend on companies investing and selling there. As I've posted before, governments have never sold/exported anything, neither have university dons who spend time on twitter. 0.01% of gdp is quite at lot actually. As for the risks to UK agriculture I believe that is another example of project fear. The UK imports twice as much beef as it exports. Most UK customers are very loyal to buying British beef as are a long list of supermarket chains like Morrisons. Even though we had been in the EU for over four decades we imported significant amounts of lamb from New Zealand. The Australian Premier says they don't have massive surpluses of beef to export. The government have promised a green revolution of UK agriculture and an end to the CAP which sees billions of £ going to the richest land owners like the Queen you'll be pleased to know, and massive destruction of nature by intensive farming. Now we are out of the EU the government have to restructure agriculture/farming the way Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies did when we turned our backs on them in the 1970s. They have already started to introduce measures on animal welfare, now we are out of the EU. A deal with Australia is a stepping stone to more lucrative trade deals in the Pacific region and Asia, where the bulk of world growth lies. Singapore is the logistical centre of the world for deep sea transportation. Those nations are not begging for UK goods and services, but the potential sales are massive, just look at how our exports were growing pre pandemic, despite the barriers the UK placed in the way of imports from them as a member of the EU. I'm confident as soon as we improve trading conditions with them, we can dramatically reduce our unhealthy massive trade deficit with the EU, of which of course the EU is afraid. Is it correct that Australian beef is injected with growth hormones?
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Post by mrcoke on May 19, 2021 22:42:27 GMT
I don't know where your tweeter gets his data from, maybe you could advise. Based on government figures at circa £1 billion pa, the increase in exports would increase GDP by 0.03%, but as we all know forcasts are never 100% correct. Over a million Australians were born in the UK and it is reasonable to be confident in increased exports, but at the end of the day that will depend on companies investing and selling there. As I've posted before, governments have never sold/exported anything, neither have university dons who spend time on twitter. 0.01% of gdp is quite at lot actually. As for the risks to UK agriculture I believe that is another example of project fear. The UK imports twice as much beef as it exports. Most UK customers are very loyal to buying British beef as are a long list of supermarket chains like Morrisons. Even though we had been in the EU for over four decades we imported significant amounts of lamb from New Zealand. The Australian Premier says they don't have massive surpluses of beef to export. The government have promised a green revolution of UK agriculture and an end to the CAP which sees billions of £ going to the richest land owners like the Queen you'll be pleased to know, and massive destruction of nature by intensive farming. Now we are out of the EU the government have to restructure agriculture/farming the way Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies did when we turned our backs on them in the 1970s. They have already started to introduce measures on animal welfare, now we are out of the EU. A deal with Australia is a stepping stone to more lucrative trade deals in the Pacific region and Asia, where the bulk of world growth lies. Singapore is the logistical centre of the world for deep sea transportation. Those nations are not begging for UK goods and services, but the potential sales are massive, just look at how our exports were growing pre pandemic, despite the barriers the UK placed in the way of imports from them as a member of the EU. I'm confident as soon as we improve trading conditions with them, we can dramatically reduce our unhealthy massive trade deficit with the EU, of which of course the EU is afraid. Is it correct that Australian beef is injected with growth hormones? Yes. Hormones in meat production has taken place world wide for over 50 years and is supported by the scientific community. The EU banned such meat in the last century. The USA and Canada took the EU to a disputes procedure with the WTO who found in favour of Canada and the USA and hormones are used extensively worldwide. No one has reported ill effects. But if you want to buy meat without hormone treatment there is nothing stopping you. You can by hormone free beef in Australia, America, and Canada if you want to. Nobody is going to stop you buying natural beef if you want to. Why do the EU ban hormones? To prevent imports of course and protect the interests of European food processors and agriculture lobbyist like copa cogeca. Don't be fooled for one minute that the EU legislates for your interests. They legislate in the interests of European businesses to ensure "a level playing field", to squeeze out SMEs, and to put barriers in the way of imports to protect the customs union. www.copa-cogeca.eu/Notice how many lobbying companies are based in Brussels: lobbyfacts.eu/reports/lobby-costs/all/0/2/2/2/11/0?page=4
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 20, 2021 10:02:40 GMT
Is it correct that Australian beef is injected with growth hormones? Yes. Hormones in meat production has taken place world wide for over 50 years and is supported by the scientific community. The EU banned such meat in the last century. The USA and Canada took the EU to a disputes procedure with the WTO who found in favour of Canada and the USA and hormones are used extensively worldwide. No one has reported ill effects. But if you want to buy meat without hormone treatment there is nothing stopping you. You can by hormone free beef in Australia, America, and Canada if you want to. Nobody is going to stop you buying natural beef if you want to. Why do the EU ban hormones? To prevent imports of course and protect the interests of European food processors and agriculture lobbyist like copa cogeca. Don't be fooled for one minute that the EU legislates for your interests. They legislate in the interests of European businesses to ensure "a level playing field", to squeeze out SMEs, and to put barriers in the way of imports to protect the customs union. www.copa-cogeca.eu/Notice how many lobbying companies are based in Brussels: lobbyfacts.eu/reports/lobby-costs/all/0/2/2/2/11/0?page=4Interesting article: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/10/13/chlorinated-chicken-hormone-beef-trade-deal-brexit/I think the jury is out on the impact of hormone treated beef. Anyway, since we have now left the EU, the UK may well find itself less able to resist having to take such treated meat products in trade deals. The government has signalled its intention to relax regulation generally, for obvious reasons, and this may well be another area where they do. (I imagine there are loads of lobbying companies located in London too. What's the difference?)
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Post by mrcoke on May 20, 2021 13:05:11 GMT
Yes. Hormones in meat production has taken place world wide for over 50 years and is supported by the scientific community. The EU banned such meat in the last century. The USA and Canada took the EU to a disputes procedure with the WTO who found in favour of Canada and the USA and hormones are used extensively worldwide. No one has reported ill effects. But if you want to buy meat without hormone treatment there is nothing stopping you. You can by hormone free beef in Australia, America, and Canada if you want to. Nobody is going to stop you buying natural beef if you want to. Why do the EU ban hormones? To prevent imports of course and protect the interests of European food processors and agriculture lobbyist like copa cogeca. Don't be fooled for one minute that the EU legislates for your interests. They legislate in the interests of European businesses to ensure "a level playing field", to squeeze out SMEs, and to put barriers in the way of imports to protect the customs union. www.copa-cogeca.eu/Notice how many lobbying companies are based in Brussels: lobbyfacts.eu/reports/lobby-costs/all/0/2/2/2/11/0?page=4Interesting article: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/10/13/chlorinated-chicken-hormone-beef-trade-deal-brexit/I think the jury is out on the impact of hormone treated beef. Anyway, since we have now left the EU, the UK may well find itself less able to resist having to take such treated meat products in trade deals. The government has signalled its intention to relax regulation generally, for obvious reasons, and this may well be another area where they do. (I imagine there are loads of lobbying companies located in London too. What's the difference?) Thanks for that article. The EU banned hormone use in 1989 and it has been around for a very long time so the jury are going to be quite grey. I have reservations about how much governments should legislate to protect people. It is more important to me that people are informed and can make a choice through labelling, warning, contents information, etc. If government should rule on everything hazardous why don't they bad smoking which is infinitely more hazardous to health. Not to mention alcohol, and psychological/mental health hazards like gambling. The lobbying is everywhere but I think people are oblivious to how much it "controls" Brussels and as we debated many times there is an undue influence on unelected bureaucrats in the Commission who are irremovable. To me that is far more "unhealthy" than hormones! UK politicians are under the influence of lobbyists ( or become them like Cameron) but are also accountable to the public, the scrutiny of the media, and removable. Edit: More interesting reading www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/european-ombudsman-to-launch-new-probe-on-eu-revolving-door-job-moveswww.alter-eu.org/corporate-capture-in-europe-when-big-business-dominates-policy-making-and-threatens-our-right
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Post by bigjohnritchie on May 20, 2021 20:40:13 GMT
Genuine question, particularly for the Euro fanatics....what is Guy suggesting here. More Europe, more EU ? Will that solve the migration issue?....or is it about ensuring the EU is in control....central command! www.facebook.com/watch/?v=157467276332203
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on May 22, 2021 9:18:39 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on May 22, 2021 10:24:38 GMT
Project fear back in full swing. News: farmers complaining, Why are Irish farmers worried? www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/mounting-concern-at-impact-of-uk-australia-deal-on-irish-beef-exports-1.4571686The UK imports twice as much beef as it exports. We have a shortfall. Australia does not have mountains of excess beef to send says Australia's Premier. Remainers keep telling us that trading with the opposite side of the world is not competitive. The British public has a huge loyalty towards British beef, which is accepted as being the best in the world. You cannot beat Scottish beef (and Welsh lamb). A long list of UK supermarkets are loyal to British beef because that is what the British public want to buy, led by Morrisons. The solution: Agree a trade deal with Australia and insist on buying British when you shop.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 22, 2021 10:38:59 GMT
It makes it a lot more understandable why the government is trying to pay farmers to retire.
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Post by partickpotter on May 23, 2021 8:30:52 GMT
It makes it a lot more understandable why the government is trying to pay farmers to retire. Did you read the article referenced previously giving the reasons for the proposed retirement payments? Here’s an extract to help you out... Basically it’s the UK Gvt trying to wean farmers of CAP subsidies. Seems a fine principle to me, unless you are a fan of the EU Common Agricultural Policy... which you may well be.
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Post by mrcoke on May 23, 2021 8:54:26 GMT
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Post by partickpotter on May 23, 2021 9:12:43 GMT
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Post by wagsastokie on May 23, 2021 10:00:05 GMT
To pay each individual farmer for what he does and his effect on the environment Seems to me to make much more sense than just paying rich farmers large sums of money based solely on the fact they own vast acreages
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Post by partickpotter on May 25, 2021 14:00:21 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on May 25, 2021 14:39:54 GMT
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