What is the "oppression of the working people"?

What is the "oppression of the working people"? These are direct and indirect taxes. Tax on income, smoke, childlessness, sunshine and emptiness (at one time in the US, a tax was imposed on the amount of vacuum sealed in the radio lamp). "The oppression of the working people" is not an invention of Soviet historians. They just did not add that the smerdy in the same Russia could not be burdened. The treasury needed money for the army. Without him, it was impossible to keep land, not to protect yourself from the steppe and basurman.

How did the "working people" respond to "oppression"? America sprawled its engineering brains and reduced the radio tubes almost to the size of the dust particles called today's transistors. A hundred years before, she had responded with a riot to England's tributary pressure and proclaimed herself an independent state.

The Russian peasant ran away from the taxes where his eyes looked. On the soles of his bast shoes, he carried away the seal of the state, until he placed it in the "darkness of the Livonian region" and in the "fogs of the Okhotsk wave."

The Ukrainian peasant, meanwhile, left the Polish yoke. He called his new settlements unequivocally: "suburbs." So formed Slobozhanshchina, the edge of freedom, "suburbs."

Receiving tribute was the first and last goal of almost every military campaign. Liberation from tribute is the goal of all Pugachevschina. To impose a super-high tax on everything that met in their path, the Tatar-Mongol hordes moved from east to west. For a one-time tax, the Cossacks equipped flotillas from thousands of ships and headed for the Turkish coast. The Turks and Krymchaks in the same forms created cavalry armies and threw them to the north, to Moscow itself.

The tax greed of the khans Rus is due to its transformation into one of the uluses of the Golden Horde. The tax dexterity of Ivan Kalita is due to her liberation from the ya ...

Nothing so quarrels people as a tax issue. This is known to rascals of all times and peoples. In the "orange" days, they told the Donbas that it contained Western Ukraine. They pretended that they forgot, for example, how much money they send and bring from the West only the Galician people ("Zabobitchani").

It turns out, in short, that taxes have been and remain the protagonist of history. They were the cause of great migrations, crusades; They created states, they destroyed states.

The USA, by its origin, initiated the disintegration of the British Empire. Ukraine Khmelnitsky in the same way forever dumped Poland. Finally, the collapse of the USSR, if anyone remembers, began with the fact that Russia Yeltsin refused to contribute to the union treasury.

Ordered taxes - this is the state. While the tax is not ordered, there is no state. You want to find out what kind of country it seemed before you on the horizon - go and get to know the tax morals prevailing there. In Ukraine, for example, the basic tax relations - this is still the relationship between individuals. To pay off one, buy another. And vice versa: to peel one, sell to another.

This area of being does not tolerate cavalry assaults (and which one suffers?). The son of a familiar electrician will finish school in the spring. He is an excellent student, but his father already buys dollars. Admission to the legal will cost ten thousand - three times more than with "evil authorities." A familiar entrepreneur goes deeper into the shadows of his business - otherwise it will be ruined by such an indirect tax as a new benefit to successful women in labor.

Taxes and benefits can be achieved in everything, except for what taxes and benefits can not be achieved. Above all, the birth rate in those parts of the Earth where people do not know what taxes are, what benefits are, or what the money itself is. Below all - where do not know, it seems, nothing but money, taxes and benefits.