Between this and the flat tax, Russia looking more like the real city on a hill every day.
Case in point: my in-laws. They are Armenian by blood, and moved from their home in Soviet Azerbaijan to southern Russia in 1987 as refugees during the war that was going on at the time. To summarize a long, complicated story, the Azeri guy in charge of the town threatened that any Armenians who didn't leave within the week would be shot...they have to leave everything; house, possessions, everything stayed behind. My wife was two years old, and her Mom was pregnant with her sister.
Fast forward to today: despite having no college education, they now have two stores, own their *house* (not apartment like many Russians) outright, and regularly travel to Moscow and Istanbul to buy inventory for the stores, relaxation, etc. Their daughter (my wife) lives with me in the USA and has a B.S. from Rutgers University. They have no debt, and comparatively, live better than your average American middle class family.
Tell me how likely this story is in America today.