[Graybeard58]

Wouldn’t it be better if we just went to a straight up mafia state like Russia. Then we could dispense with the Rain Taxes and call a shakedown what it is.

Russia has a flat tax, 14%. That's why some Europeans are fleeing to there, not away from it.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Wouldn’t it be better if we just went to a straight up mafia state like Russia? Then we could dispense with the Rain Taxes and call a shakedown what it is.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.