[An American In Dairyland]

the national discussion was pretty much copy-pasted from the old Russian debates.

Wisconsin went so far in emulating the Russians as to take their Child Support Guidelines directly from a Russian welfare plan.

[RogerFGay]

Yep. I'm the guy who uncovered that. There are specific citations to Russian law in On Developing Child Support Decision Theory: Principles. When you know enough, it's kind of obvious anyway. The straight percentage of income idea only fits in the context of a strongly managed political economy - where "wealth" is allocated down to the personal level.