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invite iceland in skip to main skip to sidebar invite iceland in iceland is facing financial crisis the polite thing to do is to invite them to join canada sunday june 9 2013 iceland responsible for the french revolution it is amazing the impact iceland has had on world affairs how the laki eruptions changed history posted by ian davis at 2 26 am 1 comment wednesday august 22 2012 iceland s tax revenues soar the icelandic treasury has released its report on public finances during the first half of 2012 showing continuation of iceland s dramatic recovery since the 2008 financial crisis tax revenues have soared by isk37 8bn usd330m while expenditures have only risen by isk19 4bn usd170m as compared with one year ago for the small usd14bn icelandic economy these figures are better than expected and the country has cut its budget deficit from around 14 of gross domestic product gdp in 2008 to 2 3 of gdp in 2011 while also reducing its sovereign debt as compared with 2011 iceland has especially collected significantly higher corporate income tax revenues value added tax property taxes and excise taxes on motor vehicles are also part of the reason why tax revenues have soared during the period due to tax rises kicking in following the 2008 financial crisis which brought icelandic banks to their knees the icelandic government sought help from the imf at a time when national banks needed to be saved the country s deficit was at 14 of gdp and recession was threatening under the bailout deal iceland committed to cut spending and it tightened its comparatively low corporate taxation made the tax system more progressive by hiking taxes while safeguarding low incomes and increased already high indirect taxes http www tax news com news icelands_tax_revenues_soar____56876 html posted by ian davis at 10 14 am no comments thursday july 5 2012 us vendetta against icelandic member of parliament the us really seems to have a problem with the notion that their jurisdiction is or should be limited to the prosecuting of those who are either their own citizens who commit crimes in their or other countries or the citizens of other countries who commit crimes on their soil it is utterly absurd to contend that those who reveal that the us war machine commits crimes and then lie about them as happened in the helicopter gunship attack on journalists are themselves in any way party to a crime in thus causing some embarrassment to the us lies deserve embarrassment indeed one might instead argue that if those within the us responsible for prosecuting war crimes which attacking unarmed civilians is and which the us had clear video footage of do not live up to their responsibilities to police their own then it becomes the responsibility of all other nations including iceland to bring such crimes to the light of day thanks iceland and in particular birgitta jónsdóttir for having the courage to do so evidence of a us judicial vendetta against wikileaks activists mounts posted by ian davis at 1 50 am 1 comment tuesday march 6 2012 young conservatives want to legalise drugs it seems that conservatives in iceland are more enlightened than those in canada young conservatives want to legalise drugs posted by ian davis at 11 24 pm no comments monday march 5 2012 iceland s ex pm geir haarde tell court he is innocent and so begins the blame game my own perhaps ill informed opinion is that the buck stops with bill clinton who forced us banks to loan to high risk borrowers the better to give those without hope of ever owning their own home a leg up this resulted in the banks developing arrangements where the impoverished need to pay little up front and were offered the assurance that by the time their payments rose dramatically they could sell for a profit beware the law of unintended consequences no one seems to have seriously considered the flaw in this arrangement which was that as with every pyramid scheme eventually it would not be possible to sell houses for a profit and the us would be left with a nation of debtors who were no longer prepared to make payments on that debt that said it may well be that the icelandic government really was neither aware or particularly interested in the internal workings of their own banking industry it is the wise person who checks for defects in a system before they manifest themselves and given the economic prosperity that the banking sector offered iceland it would at the time have been perhaps seen as looking a gift horse in the mouth to question the source of that prosperity i am very grateful to my own federal government for its regulation of the canadian banking system while it almost certainly resulted in our banks being denied the opportunity to play roulette with our nations funds it as certainly ensured that our banks never bought into the types of high risk debt that came close to derailing the us and british economy and did derail the icelandic economy posted by ian davis at 10 53 am no comments sunday march 4 2012 the arctic league the proposal for an arctic league is interesting because it echoes one of my arguments in favour of iceland joining canada specifically that it would make it easier for canada through iceland to become a member of the nordic nations with ties to scandinavia while making iceland both geographically and politically central to such a cross atlantic cooperative my concerns with the proposed arctic league is that were i an american i would feel it very unfair to exclude alaska from this league while if i was a russian i d feel that this was a western voting block designed to oppose or thwart russia s claims in the artic with russia and or alaska at the table smaller nations might well feel intimidated but they might find themselves potentially equally intimidated if absent russia and or alaska at the table either took offence at the existance of such an arctic league posted by ian davis at 11 18 pm no comments canadian ecomists discuss the idea the comments on this blog which discusses the adoption of the canadian dollar by iceland seemed pretty interesting iceland and the loonie posted by ian davis at 11 01 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom let s invite iceland in to canada we want canada to officially extend an offer to iceland to join confederation this arrangement would look similar to the one offered to newfoundland in 1949 and help them out of their current financial predicament also we really like sigur rós our position statement email textserver com gmail com my blog list icenews daily news 6 months ago iceland review 7 years ago iceland eyes 8 years ago iceland says 10 years ago bbc news iceland 14 years ago marketing safari the reykjavik grapevine logberg vigdís hauksdóttir blog archive 2013 1 june 1 iceland responsible for the french revolution 2012 7 august 1 july 1 march 5 2011 1 august 1 2010 29 december 2 november 4 october 23 2009 3 july 1 january 2 2008 56 october 56