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The Belorussian parasite tax

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  • 28-02-2018 12:43pm
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    realitykeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭


    In Belarus, unemployed people are taxed for being parasites. This applies even though they receive no benefits whatsoever from the state. Everyone works there, even the elderly. A China-Belorus initiative has resulted in an enormous new high tech industrial park presently being built just outside Minsk.

    So, Belorus seems to be yet another Communist country to adopt capitalism. But coming back the the parasite tax, should we adopt it here in Ireland in place of the welfare state - in order to pay down the national debt?


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    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,388 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    realitykeeper wrote: »
    In Belarus, unemployed people are taxed for being parasites. This applies even though they receive no benefits whatsoever from the state. Everyone works there, even the elderly. A China-Belorus initiative has resulted in an enormous new high tech industrial park presently being built just outside Minsk.

    So, Belorus seems to be yet another Communist country to adopt capitalism. But coming back the the parasite tax, should we adopt it here in Ireland in place of the welfare state - in order to pay down the national debt?

    There'd be WW3 if we dared implement that here. There's a dreadful attitude to work amongst a huge swath of the Irish population with an ingrained welfare culture. Belarus and China are Authoritarian states so people have little say in anything like this.


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    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,056 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    The Belarussian "parasite tax" was a proposal which was never implemented. It led to enormous public protests, in a country where public protest is mostly muted by savage repression. It was formally abandoned last January.

    In telling us that "everyone works in Belarus", realitykeeper is simply parroting government propaganda. The official unemployment rate is less than 1%; external observers estimate it at between 15% and 25%


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    yoke
    Registered Users Posts: 518 ✭✭✭yoke


    According to "the internet", the Belarusian government is criticized for human rights violations.

    Maybe we should copy that too, if it's being done in Belarus it must be right.

    And why stop at Belarus - in China they censor the **** out of the internet, and in Saudi Arabia women are basically kept as slaves. Surely 1 billion Chinese and 30 million Arabs can't be wrong


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