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Jan 1, 2001 was the beginning of a new era in Russia. Russians woke up to a flat 13 percent income tax. It was a watershed event. That’s right; it is Russia that we are talking about, not Hong Kong or Singapore. The USSR was founded on the principle that all businessmen were evil and profits were passe - a bourgeois concept.
Now, businessmen can retain 87 percent of what they earn in the land of Lenin! This is something which I would not have dreamed of 10 years ago. Truth is stranger than fiction.
www.ccsindia.org/pdf/13Russiaincome.doc
Its 46,900-page American Tax Code provides elephant size loopholes to the wealthy while the middle classes pay up. Russians file a simple one page form.
It is estimated that tax accountants will gobble up over 150 billion dollars for the paperwork which accompanies the tax payment in the US. This burden is one of the reasons why the US economy will not average even half the growth rate accomplished by Putin’s Russia.
It is ironic that Russia has a 13 percent flat tax while the bastion of world’s capitalism cannot even bring in a flat 17 percent tax. This is what Steve Forbes, a republican contender for the US presidency, had wanted but could not achieve.
www.ccsindia.org/pdf/13Russiaincome.doc
Originally posted by sadchild01
can you provide sources other than western propaganda bs, (chinese,russian or al jazeera)????
political freedom - yes , much better than the west
"The Gulag Archipelago" is a non-fictional account from and about the other great holocaust of our century--the imprisonment, brutalization and very often murder of tens of millions of innocent Soviet citizens by their own Government, mostly during Stalin's rule from 1929 to 1953.
intellectual freedom -yes , there is significant emphasis on parapsychology ,psychotronics ,quantum physics ,astrology and YES EVEN FREE ENERGY , it is discussed openly in russian academy of sciences ,unlike in the west , where it is ridiculed and called pseudoscientists.
and then come back here and try to sell that bullcrap about how much better it is in Russia...
you americans are so clueless , the soviet union is dead , Russia is capitalist
and yes america has the largest prison system
West is a scientific dictatorship and its science is increasingly run by dogma , rather true scientific research , while in Russia this is not so .
And Russia is not capitalist. It is run by criminal goons masquerading as capitalists.
Yes we know that - we killed the Bear.
You cannot know that since NK, China, and Russia do not release their prison stats.
America is the land of free science, whereas Russia can only steal secrets and mimic our achievements.
And Russia is not capitalist. It is run by criminal goons masquerading as capitalists.
russia is no longer run by criminal goons , as it was under US govt puppet Yeltsin .