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Same question for the countries where it is state-owned and cheaper.
And that's despite having very heavy traffic including a huge portion of heavy trucks transit across Europe.
Yeah, and why is it acceptable and not "insane"? Why not use taxes?
Two things:
-a design choice: the fee also pays for rest areas every 15-20 km, for both cars and trucks
-an unchosen situation: France is right in the middle of Europe and sees half* the of the population of Northern European countries driving through it to go on vacation in the Southern ones every Easter, Summer and Autumn vacations (and to the alpine ski stations in Winter).
*Kidding, but only slightly
Especially given 99.99%* of tolled roads are purely convenience ones: highways, large bridges over estuaries or chasms one used to route around...
*putting a 0.01% margin of error there so that I don't say "100%" and some smartass digs out the couple of exceptions in all of Europe
You don't mention your country - what is the situation there wrt. medical expenses?
If not, that means that Tor can be crippled by any authoritarian government, and thus making sure authoritarian parties don't get into power is important.
You just mentioned multiple citizenship means multiple taxation... That's "more obligations", not "more rights". You are not making any sense.
>A person can also end up with one citizenship in a country that allows multiple citizenship, and one which does not, and the citizenship of the person then depend on which country is being asked.
...What? You don't make any sense. I know Japanese people who live in Switzerland. Switzerland accepts dual citizenship; Japan doesn't. The stricter country wins out, and they had to choose whether to be Swiss or Japanese, full stop.
You do know learning ancient Greek and Latin was standard education of any well-educated person at the time of the American and French revolutions, don't you? And thus that they were perfectly aware of your tidbit of information? And that they elected not to adopt it? Maybe they even wrote about it? Maybe, if you were curious enough, you could have made all this reasoning above by yourself and looked up their arguments and the decades of back-and-forth on the topic before going, today, October 2026, right at "aktchually, Athenian democracy had ostrakon" as if this was a recent discovery that rewrites everything we believe about Democracy?
B. This isn't "Swedes being against African immigration", this is a party asking to renege on the citizenship of part of the population. "Remigration" isn't stopping immigration, it's looking at people's ancestry to strip them of their actual, present citizenship.
Except that heckling and shouting down a speaker is speech too. And thus your argument is incoherent: do you want to restrict speech that impedes other's freedom of speech? If no, then the hecklers must be given free rein; if yes, then the case can be made to restrict racists' freedom of speech as they try to restrict some other people's freedoms, including the latter's freedom of speech.
Modern democracy is based on the separation of powers and, in the vast majority of countries, a constitution or charter(s) that can't be overturned by a simple majority vote. For example, a party can't suspend Habeas Corpus on a whim, even if said party won the presidency, the Congress and the Senate.
But just ask the Supreme Court who carved an exception for the FED and not other government agencies...
Now look at Trump's pardon list and tell me what is being encouraged here.
As if your (very American) bosses wouldn't find another to put you down and wrong everything they could from you. Today ICE is going after immigrants, tomorrow Pinkerton is going after you.
The commenters here are cute little HNers who think they have found a loophole in the law. They are not the first ones innover their head.
Spoiler: the law is written in words, and those words aren't strictly executed like in a computer program, they are interpreted by actual humans who can see what you are trying to do and will stamp it out.
Every single one of the people infected by COVID has been contaminated by someone around them.
(It wasn't true of the plague during the great pandemics, as it was also borne by rats and their poop)
It isn't a concern. Just more noise to "flood the zone" while the Trump admins keeps doing illegal and scandalous things.
We could in one stroke take half of what multi-billionaires and quasi-trillionaires have hoarded. If they didn't have personal accountants, they wouldn't even notice it, as they have far more money than what they manage to burn through - and we would have the means to "choose" to solve real problems affecting hundreds of millions of people.