Quote of the Week


"Next year I will come to Slovakia not as a speaker promoting the flat tax, but as a tourist. Slovakia is a spectacular country. Next time I come I want to travel around some parts of the country by bicycle."

US billionaire and media magnate Steve Forbes, in Slovakia to promote the country's planned 19 percent flat-rate income tax plan. Forbes twice ran for the US presidency on a flat tax platform.


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Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


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