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International Bridge competition is in six categories: Open (open to all), Women (women only), Seniors (over 60 years old), University (students under 29 years old), Juniors (under 26 years old), and Youngsters (under 21 years old).
The World Championships (formerly called the Bermuda Bowl) are played every two years. The USA won in 2009. The World Bridge Games (formerly called the World Team Olympiad) is played every four years in the same year as the Olympics Games. It is incorporated in the World Mind Sports Games with chess, draughts, go, and Chinese chess. Italy won in 2008.
For the past 50 years, open Bridge has been dominated by Italy and the USA. The ‘Blue Team’ of Italy only lost the Bermuda Bowl twice from 1957 to 1975, a remarkable record! The USA (or North America) won consecutively from 1976 to 1987. Other strong Bridge playing nations currently or in the past include Norway, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and increasingly China.
England (formerly competing as Great Britain) was historically a leading Bridge playing nation (winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1955) with many highly regarded, expert players. Most of our recent success has been in other categories, notably Women (England won the 2008 World Bridge Games) but also Seniors (England won the 2009 World Championships) and Juniors (winning the World Championships in 1989 and 1995).
Bridge is played in every continent and most countries of the world. Impressive performances in the past have come from countries as far apart as Iceland, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Egypt, South Africa, Pakistan, India, and Australia.'Fruit Ninja Tabletop' is a board game adaptation of the popular mobile game, which was downloaded over 1.5 billion times.
Much like the original, this game is fast-paced and entertaining, challenging players to strategize and think of their feet. The card-matching game takes place in real-time, with the help of an app-enabled timer, which sits at the center of the table. Players must match a card from their own deck, to one of the cards on the table, in order to "slice the fruit." Many of the players will have cards which feature the same images, requiring individuals to "slice" before an opponent. The objective of the game is to acquire more cards than the opponents, before the timer runs out.
This collaborative adaptation aims to incorporate the same core values of accessibility and entertainment that the original game presented, while encouraging sociability and bonding.
Sometimes people complain about how ‘capitalistic’ employers do everything they can to get away with paying as little as possible to their employees. Well, how many of these same people go around trying to pay as little as possible for the goods, services, and ideas they want and or need to maintain and or improve the quality of their lives? The entire idea of negotiating a higher pay rate and haggling for a lower price is directly proportional to the value held by the employer concerning the work needing accomplished and how much money the seller is willing to settle for.
It is the same concept from two separate perspectives. The problem is not that one side is greedy and the other is not. The problem lay squarely on the fact that cost of living continually rises beneath governments which impose taxation. And here it is revealed what the issue is. The unintended consequences of taxation!
The unintended consequences of taxation cause so much trouble. This trouble begins with the implementation of taxation and the common mantra today that states: Taxation is Theft!
The first unintended consequence of taxation is that it silently demands people assign more value to whatever money or currency is useful in the satisfaction of tax debts imposed. That may seem like such a small, insignificant, and unlikely concept. However, consider the fact of being arrested and jailed for noncompliance with tax laws.
Wal-Mart and other retailers beneath the jurisdiction of a government, such as the Federal government of the United States, will not refuse to collect sales taxes because the local and state governments agreed to use Federal Reserve notes by acceptance of admittance and position within the union of supposedly sovereign ranks. Failure to comply will be met with physical force to shutdown whatever location or locations which do not comply. So in order to remain in operation, Wal-Mart and the alike will comply.
Similar actions are taken in due time with land property ownership and taxes. Failure to pay taxes on land property and the taxing entity will eventually confiscate the land in question leaving the supposed owner without. That’s a horrendous and immediate effect of taxation.
Yet these are not even the bulk of the issues concerning why taxation is so dangerous. Sure these effects so far show how taxation is theft, but the real issues are what the theft does to the ability of others to create. For most people, what I am about to discuss will seem illusionary or sophistic in nature. However, I encourage you to return to my previous work, Liberty Defined, to see what foundation I build upon to make this particular work possible.
The first thing people may notice when looking into the effects of taxation from the positive perspective is that the money supply is regulated. What does that really mean?
Well, the regulation of a money supply means typically that there must be a monopoly maintained over it. That monopoly is made possible by the enforcement of laws through direct physical violence as previously noted or threats to engage in such. This means that people will work to acquire whatever money is in question to satisfy tax debts in order gain a temporary stay of execution from whatever penalty is drafted for noncompliance with tax demands.
These demands in the early years of the fledgling United States were tariffs on imports. This meant that importing merchants were required directly to pay in gold or silver. This burden meant that they could not pay with a portion of the imports they acquired or offer store credits in the stores they may have supplied from. In others words, they were coerced in pushing such a burden upon their customers. This is how the unintended consequences of taxation affect others not directly levied with tax burdens.
What this means is that in order to pay these taxes, the importers would have to sell at least some of their goods for gold and silver or find a way to convert a portion of their profits into gold and silver after sales were made. I understand gold and silver was commonly accepted as money during the fledgling years of the American Democratic-Republic. I also understand that importers may not have had to worry so much about acquiring gold and silver from sales.
This doesn’t mean that their customers didn’t still feel the pinch in some fashion. These additional costs levied upon the shoulders of importers were not patriotically accepted. The importers didn’t ‘bite the bullet’ so to speak. They passed that burden down onto their customers in the form of higher prices. Maybe in the beginning of such tariffs being imposed the increase was of little notice.
However, with the advent of additional taxes levied and further regulations, the cost to comply increased. Therefore the customers were putout more in costs to acquire the goods and services. Today we expect sales taxes. We know in the United States that we will pay anywhere from one percent additionally to amounts over even twenty percent of any or all goods and services purchased pending where we are shopping.
Yet, I’ve not even mentioned the worst part of all of this. While the customers of these 17th century importers in the United States were accustomed to using gold and silver to make some of their purchases, many of them were able to barter and trade other goods and services to acquire what they wanted. In fact, I’m sure many people over the age of 30 may remember a time when they were allowed to simply wash dishes in a local restaurant or remember older television programs that would allow a patron to do so if they were short of money.
Not so anymore today! Regulations have seen fit to do away with that kind of peaceful resolution and voluntary interaction. No. These kinds of intervening policies still are not the worst kind of negative unintended consequences of taxation. They are merely another symptom atop other symptoms of destructive and hindering interference.
The worst culprit of all is when government actually forces its citizenry to use a specific kind of money that is not naturally occurring in their otherwise voluntary lives. FIAT CURRENCY!
The introduction of fiat currency is the most invasive and destructive and manipulative tool ever imposed through taxation. The implementation of fiat currency by the federal government has done more to destroy the potential of its citizenry to create AND exchange goods, services, and ideas; or what I call real wealth. It has also been the main symptom of taxation. This has been the culprit that is at the heart of so many ill thought out protectionist style economic treaties which prevent goods, services, and ideas from crossing borders.
So what do you think may have happened to those citizens of the various states of the slightly aged United States by the time the early 1860s came about? For starters they were forced to use paper money backed by the full violent credit of the federal government and maybe some gold and silver.
“Maybe it’s not so bad,” you think to yourself.
Well, maybe being forced to go find something to trade with a merchant for when it is already fairly rare is easy. I am betting that it’s not all that easy. But what is worse in when the government decides to