After Ceausescu
Reason's Matt Welch spent most of last month exploring Romania. While he was there, he sent some interesting dispatches to the Mercatus Center, which has published them here.
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Are they still broadcasting the tape of his execution every Christmas? Very strange, those Romanians . . .
Uh Huh, I see there are know no comments except one from MALAK…the Canadians have taken over! And, as soon as they decide what they stand for they’ll tell us. 😉
How morbid. Well; they are vampires, right?
Well, it works, at least.
Matt writes:
High tax burdens are the inevitable result of an economy with too much black-market activity…
Matt has mixed up causation here. Should read:
Black-market activity is the inevitable result of an economy with too high of a tax burden…
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