Beloved conservative icon Vladimir Putin’s government on Thursday went all socialist and enacted a tax hike on ordinary hardworking Russians to fund his Neocon war on Ukraine, the AP reports.
Vlad’s minions in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved a bill that will raise value-added tax from 20 percent to 22 percent, appropriating what’s expected to add as much as 1 trillion rubles (about $12.3 billion) to the state budget. The bill also lowers the threshold for businesses required to collect VAT from 60 million rubles (about $739,000) in annual sales revenue to 10 million rubles (about $123,000), which will end up dinging small businesses pretty badly. So woke.