It was sad to see how these taxes are crushing Spain and Portugal....For those who don't think it could happen here, Portugal once controlled 1/2 the worlds commerce.
I did not know that!
6 posted on 09/24/2013 1:19:21 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
(Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
I spent 3 weeks in Spain and Portugal back in 2002.
There is a statue to Henry the Navigator in Lisbon.
To this day he is a bigger name than Magellan in Portugal as he setup the early trade routes.