Tax Bad Behavior for the Sake of Modernization
Dmitri Voskoboinikov, Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russian) | August 2, 2010
Peter the Great should inspire the search for funds to help modernize Russia. ++ The Tsar outlawed the wearing of beards and taxed those of his subjects who refused to obey. ++ To fight corruption in Russia’s notorious bureaucracy, a 50 percent tax should be applied to the income of civil servants’ family members. ++ Parliamentarians should pay an annual “tax on [their] useless existence,” equal to the cost of a business-class Mercedes, if all they do is rubber stamp executive decisions.
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