I don't think it will affect your poor widdle taxes. I think if Rwanda can 
manage, so can the US. And in any event -- I don't see any proposal out for a 
second official language at the federal level. 

On the contrary, Newt proposes that the government be in the business of having 
people speak English.

> > Dana wrote:
> > um... had I bothered with my high school transcripts (from France) 
> they would have been translated at my expense. Not the taxpayer's.
> 
> Yes, but that's because English is the official language.  If we
> changed that to add in other languages then I would assume that the
> government would have to recognize any documents in any of the
> official languages.
> 
> Extend that to business and the same would be true.  Of course this
> wouldn't be enforced for very small local businesses, but for
> corporations you'd have to hire and couldn't say, "must speak
> English", you'd instead say "must speak English, Spanish, or 
> Canadian"
 
> (yah, I'm from Minnasoootah ya know, so I can speak Canadian, eh)
> 
> For all these reasons I'd say we should have only 1 official language
> because the real question here is, "Are you willing to have your
> federal taxes raised 5% (and 3% every year thereafter) to pay for
> bilingualism?"
> 
> I'm not.

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