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Trivia - Bureaucracy greats.

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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 14 February 2011 - 17:48

Part of the EU's rules;

"Regulation 288/97 decrees that a sauce is a vegetable if more than 20% of its content by weight fails to pass "through a metal wire sieve with an aperture of five millimeters, after rinsing in water of a temperature of 20C [68 degrees]."

It turns out if a product is classified as a vegetable instead of a sauce, the tariff on its importation rises from 20% to as much as 288%."
<em>edited by Sticky Wicket on 14/02/2011</em>

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EW MASTER
Latest post on 14 February 2011 - 17:56
sounds like our household accounts... now who's bored ??? lol
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 14 February 2011 - 17:51
Keeping track of all the money that flows through the federal bureaucracy is apparently an impossible task. A 2003 audit of all government spending could not find $24.5 billion. If we spread the blame around equally, that means that each federal employee lost track of about $9000.
 
 

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