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February 20, 2017 08:06 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tLIZWQosrPA/europes-last-dictator-fi.html
"Europe's last dictator" finally finds the limits to power: taxing the unemployed during a recession
Belurusian leader Alexander Lukashenko calls himself "Europe's last dictator": he's a thug who steals elections and sends opposition politicians to forced labor camps, the kind of guy who can get away with arresting a one-armed man for clapping -- but when he imposed a "social parasite tax" on unemployed people in the recession-devastated country, it proved too much. (more…)
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