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The best prepared award 1:50pm on 31 Mar 2009 Why is everybody acting all surprised about the credit crunch? I opted to emigrate to Canada 2 years ago and sold my house 15 months ago. I'm just finishing the emigration process now.
Any system with all carrot and no stick (e.g. guaranteed bonuses) was never going to work long-term.
Equally, any system with all stick and no carrot (e.g. appraisals and criticism but no bonuses) won't work either, which is why this country can't get physics/maths teachers.
Re the comment about the Roman empire - it has been argued that the major factor in its collapse was the unwillingness of the rich to pay their fair share of taxes. Leonora Helmsley was the beginning of the end, and the current non-dom situation is a good way down it.

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