http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...90206G20130105
French film star Gerard Depardieu arrived in Russia on Saturday to meet President Vladimir Putin, who granted him citizenship after a public spat in France over his efforts to avoid a potential 75 percent income tax.
Russia has a flat tax of only 13 percent. Depardieu now has taken over a real life role as a Modern Moses, looking to lead the global oppressed from tax slavery into what many see as an unlikely promised land, Russia.
Transformed since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has become a friendly land for those simply seeking to be able to work and be able to keep a reasonable and fair portion of their earnings.
With a corporate tax of only 20% versus the confiscatory 39% of the United States, Russia is becoming the goto country for corporate growth as well.
As Moses led the enslaved children of Israel out of Egypt, Depardieu's individual act of responsibility is seen as likely to transform into the modern equivalent of the famed battlecry "Let my people go", that went before that trek of freedom so long ago.
With financial repression the norm in the modern West, and socialist policies taking hold and saturating the western political spectrum, many are begining to see Putin's Russia as the best hope for the survival of personal liberties.
Ironic as it is, the nation broken by the great American stateman Ronald Reagan is now on the cusp of becoming the last bastion of the conservative principles he championed with Putin, a former Lt. Col. of the KGB, the new father of global freedom.
French film star Gerard Depardieu arrived in Russia on Saturday to meet President Vladimir Putin, who granted him citizenship after a public spat in France over his efforts to avoid a potential 75 percent income tax.
Russia has a flat tax of only 13 percent. Depardieu now has taken over a real life role as a Modern Moses, looking to lead the global oppressed from tax slavery into what many see as an unlikely promised land, Russia.
Transformed since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has become a friendly land for those simply seeking to be able to work and be able to keep a reasonable and fair portion of their earnings.
With a corporate tax of only 20% versus the confiscatory 39% of the United States, Russia is becoming the goto country for corporate growth as well.
As Moses led the enslaved children of Israel out of Egypt, Depardieu's individual act of responsibility is seen as likely to transform into the modern equivalent of the famed battlecry "Let my people go", that went before that trek of freedom so long ago.
With financial repression the norm in the modern West, and socialist policies taking hold and saturating the western political spectrum, many are begining to see Putin's Russia as the best hope for the survival of personal liberties.
Ironic as it is, the nation broken by the great American stateman Ronald Reagan is now on the cusp of becoming the last bastion of the conservative principles he championed with Putin, a former Lt. Col. of the KGB, the new father of global freedom.