Why America is a scary place

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen
Posted in Politics - international, Economics and public policy

Nice of you to join us Mr Stalin.

7 Comments

  1. Amanda
    February 19, 2008

    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.

  2. Patrick
    February 19, 2008

    Actually I would say that France, where that is not necessarily an astonishing insult, is scarier, for that reason.

  3. Amanda
    February 19, 2008

    I 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.

  4. Patrick
    February 19, 2008

    I would wholeheartedly agree that Russia is also a scarier place than the US.

  5. NPOV
    February 19, 2008

    Silly 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.

  6. Paul Norton
    February 19, 2008

    Now we know where Graeme Bird gets it from...

  7. amphibious
    February 19, 2008

    Nuttin' new there, then. Tax cuts for the rich is incentivation, for the poor is kommunistic. On 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..