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Icing on The Cake

Margaret Colley

Government Announces New Tax on Icing, Calls It the Icing on the Cake Britain Solves Every National Crisis by Decorating It, While Ministers Insist Buttercream Is Now Official Economic Policy LONDON –– The Government unveiled what officials described as “Britain’s sweetest fiscal reform in generations” after announcing a new National Icing Levy, assuring taxpayers that adding another tax was simply “the icing on the cake.” Ministers insisted the levy would transform…

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French Abandon Socialism for Shamanism

Siobhan O’Donnell

France Rejects Socialism for Shamanism At Least the Spirits Admit They Are Entering an Altered State LONDON — France formally abandoned socialism Tuesday after government officials concluded that speaking with spirits offered a more realistic path to prosperity than speaking with economists. The transition was, by all accounts, overdue. France has now had five prime ministers in under two years, a budget deficit threatening to reach 5.4 percent of GDP, and a retirement-age…