Why America is a scary place
Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Nice of you to join us Mr Stalin.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 1:02 AM and filed under Economics and public policy, Politics - international.
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Alan Jones says much the same thing any morning of the week. Not that he would mind tax cuts for the poor, he’s a bit of a pinko that way himself, but the NSW Education Dept is a well known to be honeycombed with Josip-lovers.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 6:05 am | PermalinkActually I would say that France, where that is not necessarily an astonishing insult, is scarier, for that reason.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 6:30 am | PermalinkI was in Moscow during the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 03 and the Communist Party (sadly the only effective opposition force in the joint) had demos against with big banners saying “Saddam – Today’s Stalin.” They did not mean it as an insult.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 6:42 am | PermalinkI would wholeheartedly agree that Russia is also a scarier place than the US.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 6:48 am | PermalinkSilly question – but did Stalin actually practice wealth redistribution in any meaningful way? As I understand it, most of the confiscation of land seemed to affect poor peasants more than wealthy landowners.
I’m also fairly sure modern day Russia has a far less redistributive tax policy than the U.S.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 8:49 am | PermalinkNow we know where Graeme Bird gets it from…
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 2:28 pm | PermalinkNuttin’ new there, then. Tax cuts for the rich is incentivation, for the poor is kommunistic.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 4:55 pm | PermalinkOn tuther hand, the rich need higher pay so they’ll work harder whereas wage rises for the workers discourages them – they can only drink so much beer..