[vabeachrepub]

True - their rate is a little more than double what our rate is. Is that too much considering they should have a growing capitalist system and they would need the funding especially since they have recently shed the pro-russian faction that was controlling the government.

[jb6]

Under the oranges their GDP growth rate has dropped to 3.8% from 12.7% last year and their inflation is now close to 17%, spurned by a minimal wage rise of 90% and an over all tax rise of 20%.