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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by SimbaOnSteroids on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @09:55AM (#15175151)
Idk about you but I can't think of many former soviet block countries that have a healthy distribution of wealth between working, middle, and upper classes. Furthermore the list of countries given there are not places where you want to be poor.
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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by cpursley on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:12AM (#15175345)
I don't disagree. These countries often have systemic issues that go deeper than any one tax system can resolve.
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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by croon on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:50AM (#15175742)
Are you saying that flat tax is good, but that all countries that have implemented it coincidentally have other economic issues that are wholly unrelated?
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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by sokoloff on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:20AM (#15176067)
What is the list of countries where one would want to be poor?
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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by SimbaOnSteroids on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:45AM (#15176338)
Obviously there isn't a list where you'd want to be poor , but I'd definetly rather be poor living in Sweden than poor living in Russia.
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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by sol_remmy on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:35AM (#15175583)
ex-Soviet countries like Romania and Poland are definitely on their away up.

Compare them to slowly declining western European countries like Italy and Spain.

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Re:When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer by sbalea on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @01:03PM (#15177050)
Romania and Poland were never soviets. Communist, yes. Behind the Iron Curtain, yes. Members of the Warsaw Pact, yes (Poland is kind of obvious on this). But never soviets.
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