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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 84458" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: Competition: fair/unfairStory of my life, I lose because everybody hates me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />~:-(~:sad:Yes, like everybody else, we would rather burn our money than pay tax, and earning money without paying tax is better than eternal salvation, supermodel sex and satisfying bowel movements (in no particular order). Coming from the neighbour county of Nordfjord, I can truthfully say that people from Nordfjord isn&#039;t any worse than everybody else, allthough I hate to admit it.EDIT:Back to topic, obviously any business entity, wethether public funding or not, has to abide by the rules under which they are operating, so I&#039;m not defending anybody that does business in breach of the rules, and I certainly do not believe in publicly funding operations that will be misused to put businesses out of profit at great expense to the funders/taxpayers. Public funding often leads to mismanagment of assets because the assets are &quot;free&quot; and nobody with influence cares if the assets are lost or provide a poor ROI (in monetary terms or otherwise) for the community, the taxpayers or the funders. The right balance between private and public should be the balance that best serves the society as a whole, regardless of principles involved. Private business isn&#039;t always a profit-seeking racket, and publicly owned revenue-generating entities are not necessarily the advance troops of the Red Army (or the Chinese or North Korean equivalent as the case might be today)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 84458, member: 1285"] Re: Competition: fair/unfair Story of my life, I lose because everybody hates me :(~:-(~:sad: Yes, like everybody else, we would rather burn our money than pay tax, and earning money without paying tax is better than eternal salvation, supermodel sex and satisfying bowel movements (in no particular order). Coming from the neighbour county of Nordfjord, I can truthfully say that people from Nordfjord isn't any worse than everybody else, allthough I hate to admit it. EDIT: Back to topic, obviously any business entity, wethether public funding or not, has to abide by the rules under which they are operating, so I'm not defending anybody that does business in breach of the rules, and I certainly do not believe in publicly funding operations that will be misused to put businesses out of profit at great expense to the funders/taxpayers. Public funding often leads to mismanagment of assets because the assets are "free" and nobody with influence cares if the assets are lost or provide a poor ROI (in monetary terms or otherwise) for the community, the taxpayers or the funders. The right balance between private and public should be the balance that best serves the society as a whole, regardless of principles involved. Private business isn't always a profit-seeking racket, and publicly owned revenue-generating entities are not necessarily the advance troops of the Red Army (or the Chinese or North Korean equivalent as the case might be today) [/QUOTE]

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