[goldstategop]

Good move! France is losing successful, qualified and talented people due to its socialist confiscatory 75% progressive income tax.

I've always liked the best thing about Vladimir Putin's tax reform a decade ago: a 13% flat tax. Russia's gain of ex French actor Gerard Depardieu is France's loss!

People like lower taxes. A concept France's Socialist President Francois Hollande doesn't appear to understand.

[Roccus]

People leaving France for Russia because France is too socialistic..........now I can die.

[Flick Lives]

We are living in Bizzaro World. Russia now has lower tax rates than the US. Who would have thunk it!?

[Nextrush]

There are some good things like that in Mother Russia, but Putin is a petty tyrant and a guy I met several months ago who actually lives there called it a “dark place.”

I tend to agree with him.

[stormhill]

Sovietsky Bank?
Go on now, you pulling my leg?

[Yudan]

If he’d grandfather in my gun permit, I’d consider it. I’m Orthodox Christian already.

I believe under Russian law, you have to receive a smooth bore permit and demonstrate law abiding behavior for 5 years befor you can get a rifled bore permit. I may be wrong, I’m not 100% certain.

[Nuc 1.1]

The modern income tax is a marxist construct. The income tax empowers government to coerce the citizenry into behaving as the government dictates. Thus the income tax must be eliminated. Further a number of amendments need to be made to the constitution to place limits upon our thieving political class and citizenry. Among these is repeal of the sixteenth amendment, the income tax amendment, implementation of a national retail sales tax to fund the government. And revise Article 1 to remove the power of congress to lay any taxes except a national sales tax.

[reegs]

Not to get off topic, but “eccentric monk Grigory Rasputin?” More like demonic. How many attempts did it take to kill Rasputin?

[varmintman]

There's one other reason I can think of why somebody might want to move to Russia. I've been waiting a long time to hear some politician, any politician, with the power to do anything about it, say the first word about trying to protect Christians out there in the world where they are persecuted. So far, I've heard one politician in that sort of position say anything like that and that one guy's name is Владимир Путин.