Laurențiu Ginghină (MMT in Romania) writes with this scintillating brilliance declared by the Pres of Belarus.
Belarus Imposes Fines for Being Unemployed
President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree imposing fines for being unemployed in a Soviet-style attempt to crack down on tax evaders and people working in sectors of the economy outside of state control.
The decree, signed Thursday, aims to “stimulate able-bodied citizens to engage in labor activity and fulfill their constitutional obligation to participate in financing state expenditures,”
Seems like a direct blow aimed at Bitcoins, plus all other grey-market subsistence activities.
"participate in financing state expenditures" <--> Translation: "submit to control" (or else)
Wow! Submitting to gangsters is a Constitutional Obligation in Belarus? Who knew? Next we'll be using taxes to finance fiat in the USA too! Dimwits and math illiterate sociopaths everywhere will like the symbolism, no matter how deranged the concept is.
So NeoLiberalism comes full circle, to gangsterism. To be free, we need merely add NeoLiberals to our list of known terrorists and terrorist organizations.
So NeoLiberalism comes full circle, to gangsterism. To be free, we need merely add NeoLiberals to our list of known terrorists and terrorist organizations.
I'd vote for that.
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We do this the god old USA. The authorities regularly look for people living beyond their means to determine where the funding is coming from.
I recall when living in Mendocino Country, California, where the local authorities stopped busing people for marijuana growing and growing was an essential aspect of the local economy the local newspaper reported that someone had been busted for growing.
Of course, that got everyone's attention quickly, even if they were not participating, since a crackdown would affect the local economy adversely.
In the first line of the story, the sheriff was quoted saying that the guy wasn't really busted for growing but for not paying his taxes. The sheriff went on to explain that the guy was living high off the hog with no visible means of support and no credit. The message was clear. If you are going to grow, then pay your taxes or we will come and get you.
Of course, all the taxpayers were cool with that.
The reality is that most people that grow or sell have covers so as not to attract attention and pay at least a portion of the taxes due, not unlike most other small business owners that have significant cash businesses.
Governments don't like blackmarkets and suppress them everywhere.
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