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Try dieting and exercise, getting a monster truck won't help you.

That's clearly a residential area if someone would hit their cars it would happen either way.. you're supposed to drive slowly there.

A pessoa vive em Portugal, logo consome em Portugal, gera negócio a empresas em Portugal e paga 23% de IVA no que consome. Os americanos que vivem em PT são também um íman de turistas americanos que chegam agora em números record. Estas dinâmicas geram empregos e dinamizam a economia.

As pessoas pagam renda (além de inflacionarem), pagam IVA em tudo o que consomem e ao consumirem localmente geram empregos. Em geral usam sistemas de saúde privados etc. Se estivessem nos EUA nenhum desse dinheiro ou imposto seria cobrado em PT. É esse impacto suficiente para justificar o incentivo à vinda ou a subida das rendas? Eu acho que é uma discussão em aberto.

A subida das rendas seria de qualquer modo uma realidade. Crescente concentração de pessoas nas grandes cidades, núcleos familiares cada vez mais pequenos para o mesmo número de casas, não há milagres.

True.

Não há bela sem senão, por outro lado é inegável que injetam muito dinheiro na economia portuguesa, gerando empregos e tal.

Technically there used to be a difference. Expat was only used for people working in country X while keeping their contract and work link to country Y and being paid in the Y currency. So basically workers from Y on an expat mission abroad.

While an immigrant is someone from country Y that moved to country X and works and gets paid in country X with X currency and if wants to go back to Y will lose the work contract in X.

I'm myself an immigrant although within the EU an EU citizen should not be considered an immigrant but just an EU citizen in another EU country.

Exactly. I was in Sweden recently and it's opressive how difficult it is to use cash. For everything it's only card or apps, I didn't even bother to get any local cash. But I had a few SEK from years ago and I couldn't use them.

In Portugal is not on the constitution but it's law, a business cannot force the client to pay by other means if the client has enough cash to make the payment for payments under 3000€ (above this you actually can't pay cash by the same law :P).

Fiz no telemóvel e nem dei conta, já corriji, obrigado.

So you want to dismantle the west, that is the most functional, equal and free region of the world and only then go after the "smaller threats" (that is f* Russia with its second biggest nuclear arsenal in the world, currently involved in a genocidal war to increase its territory, besides all the side conflicts from Syria to Niger). Just wow at your total delusion, that's what speaking from a point of privilege is.

Businesses do lots of waste, I agree. But again, businesses exist because they have customers. Some people seem to believe that the climate crisis can be solved with taxes alone, but that's not how it works. Huge changes on all levels are required.

How do you think those companies pollute? Are they burning fuel at Shell's headquarters? Or do they have lots of customers who think their personal behavior doesn't matter?