{"id":227119,"date":"2017-03-28T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=227119"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:12:09","slug":"european-nation-decides-to-tax-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/28\/european-nation-decides-to-tax-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"European Nation Decides to Tax the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You remember my long-ago suggestion that happened to be made on April 1st suggesting that in order to be fair and just, we needed to raise taxes on the poor, that the poor were getting away with not paying their fair share; they were just takers? And there was outrage. People didn\u2019t associate April Fool\u2019s with it. Well, the New York Post has a story: “European Country Imposes ‘Social Parasite\u2019 Tax on the Poor.”<\/a> A European nation decided to tax the poor, years later, acting on my proposal. See? You hang around long enough; it comes true.<\/p>\n

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European map with Belarus highlighted<\/p><\/div>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t blame me. It\u2019s Belarus. It\u2019s just the way the story is written. New York Post: “European Country Imposes ‘Social Parasite\u2019 Tax on the Poor.” That\u2019s the headline. The story: “A European nation has hit upon a novel idea to reduce poverty: Fine people for being poor.” You have to keep reading to find out what European nation it is, and I didn\u2019t have a whole lot of time when I squeezed this in in the final little, tiny break there, but it\u2019s Belarus. Sits between Russia and Poland and was formally part of the Soviet Union. It plans to introduce a social parasite tax on the unemployed. It gets even better. Not just the poor, but the unemployed. Cool.<\/p>\n

“The country\u2019s president, Alexander Lukashenko,” who has yet to be poisoned by Putin with polonium-210 but that\u2019s gonna happen, has said that it\u2019s a $233 tax here, folks, a month wages in Belarus. The equivalent in dollars is $233. That\u2019s what the average Belarusian makes in a month. And the president, Alexander Lukashenko, or Lukashenko, not to be confused with Victor Yevtushenko, who was poisoned with polonium-210. You remember that, remember this guy? He had a drink, he\u2019s a Putin critic. Hang on, I gotta enter my ID. Okay. Beta installed. Cool.<\/p>\n

He was a Putin critic I think formally of the KGB, and he was having tea in some upper crust London hotel with some former spies and he had tea and somehow they snuck just a drop of the stuff into his tea and he was in the hospital progressively dying for six weeks. It\u2019s equivalent to radiation poisoning. Polonium-210. Maybe it\u2019s polonium-210, 211, 210B, whatever it is. It\u2019s derivative of uranium. And it\u2019s literally a drop, that\u2019s all it takes. And he knew who did it. He knew they were associates with Putin. Putin of course denied it, said he never heard of the guy. But they chronicled his death every day in the London papers.<\/p>\n

But back to the story about taxing the unemployed. “Some Belarussians have taken to the streets, saying it\u2019s a step too far by Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994. This weekend, around 400 people were arrested in the capital city of Minsk as protesters tried to hold a forbidden demonstration against the new law. … First signed into law in 2015, Presidential Decree number 3 –” guess there haven\u2019t been many presidential decrees “– more widely known as the ‘spongers\u2019 or ‘freeloaders\u2019 tax, proposed fining people if they had not worked for six months.” (laughing)<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, you have to be progressively unemployed and not looking too hard for jobs and they\u2019re gonna start fining you for being unemployed. “The government says the protesters were not peaceful and ‘petrol bombs and arms-laden cars\u2019 were found nearby. … At the time, Lukashenko said the tax would ‘stimulate able-bodied citizens to engage in labor activity,” that\u2019s work, for those of you in Rio Linda, “and fulfill their constitutional obligation to participate in financing state expenditures.\u2019 Failure to pay the levy, or take on menial work that pays a pittance, could ultimately send Belarussians to jail.”<\/p>\n

It sounds like our health care plan. It sounds like the original form of health care, the Pelosi fine. If you didn\u2019t pay it, there was jail time. You may not know this, folks. There was. There was jail time in an early version of Obamacare. In fact, it may still be there, “As the secretary shall determine.”<\/p>\n

“The law harks back to the criminal offense of ‘social parasitism\u2019 that was on the statute books during the Soviet era to punish people who ‘intentionally don\u2019t work.'” All right, be honest. How many of you are kind of digging this? No, you don\u2019t have to admit it to anybody but you and me, and I can\u2019t hear you. You just nod your head out there listening to the radio.<\/p>\n

I mean, it doesn\u2019t sound punitive to me, give people six months to find a job, you\u2019re not gonna pay \u2019em whatever for four years not to work. If they don\u2019t get a job in six months, they have to pay you because you\u2019re not gonna let them become social parasites on the government system, known as spongers or freeloaders. (laughing) This is what it was in the old Soviet Union, and the Democrats loved this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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