russia have a 13% flat tax?!?!!!!
I don’t know if its flat, but it is lower and a hell of a lot easier to deal with. And of course they also get money from the US for their space program since America the great space power has to hitch hike to the space station we built. (sorry that pisses me off)
“russia have a 13% flat tax?!?!!!!”
Yeppers, they do.
If you look at the story of the story of Joseph and his rise to becoming the viceroy of Egypt you will see that he suggests a 20% tax on crops. This was an actual lowering of the tax there at that time.
Even today non-collectivist economists agree that it should be not more than 19 or 20 percent.
If the total tax burden on the everyone could be not more than 20% the US economy would skyrocket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax
“The countries that have recently reintroduced flat taxes have done so largely in the hope of boosting economic growth. The Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have had flat taxes of 24%, 25% and 33% respectively with a tax exempt amount, since the mid-1990s. On 1 January 2001, a 13% flat tax on personal income took effect in Russia. Ukraine followed Russia with a 13% flat tax in 2003, which later increased to 15% in 2007. Slovakia introduced a 19% flat tax on most taxes (that is, on corporate and personal income, for VAT, etc., almost without exceptions) in 2004. Romania introduced a 16% flat tax on personal income and corporate profit on 1 January 2005. Macedonia introduced a 12% flat tax on personal income and corporate profit on 1 January 2007 and promised to cut it to 10% in 2008.[21] Albania has implemented a 10% flat tax from 2008.[22] Bulgaria applies flat tax rate of 10% for corporate profits and personal income tax since 2008.[23]”