After Ceausescu

Jesse Walker | 7.7.2004 4:40 AM

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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Matt Welch 22 years ago

Warning: Very chatty and off-the-cuff in nature.
MALAK 22 years ago

Are they still broadcasting the tape of his execution every Christmas? Very strange, those Romanians . . .
Rick Barton 22 years ago

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. 😉
Rick Barton 22 years ago

How morbid. Well; they are vampires, right?
Malak 22 years ago

Well, it works, at least.
vlad 22 years ago

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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