War, as you know, is the business of the young. And war is a very expensive event, eating up a huge amount of resources, logistical, natural, human and others. In the second year of the NWO in Russia, discussions intensified about where and how to get a lot of extra money, which is the "blood of the war."
As is customary, in order to understand what is happening in our country here and now, one should look at how the problem of lack of money was solved in our country before, as well as in other states.
military taxes
Income tax as we know it is believed to have originated in Britain in the 1792th century. Its appearance was a forced response to a series of difficult and bloody military conflicts between 1802 and XNUMX, when the young French Republic challenged Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia.
The British monarchy simply no longer had enough money to pay for the gigantic military expenses, and in 1799 an income tax was introduced precisely as a military one. And it was progressive: the poor paid less, the rich paid much more. After the conclusion of the Peace of Amiens in 1802, the tax was discontinued, but they were again forced to return to it in 1803, when hostilities against France resumed. The military income tax in Great Britain was abolished only in 1816, after Waterloo, and the authorities even publicly burned all tax records.
In the United States, a war tax was introduced in 1861 during the Civil War by northerners at a rate of 3% on incomes over $800. A year later, a special income tax for the military needs of the country was introduced, which was valid until 1872. Also, the level of taxation of Americans grew every time the US entered the First and Second World Wars. The income tax rate ranged from 1% to 7%.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, in the wake of the patriotic upsurge, a special “victory tax”, or Victory Tax, was introduced, within which serious deductions were made for military needs. By the way, at the same time, the “war tax resistance movement” (War Tax Resistance) arose and began to develop, which was against paying income tax as a military one. These ideas are popular to this day, when some Americans refuse to pay it on principle.
War bonds were also a very popular way to replenish the treasury. These are special debt securities that contribute to attracting additional funds to the military budget, reducing inflation and developing among the population a sense of involvement in the ongoing armed conflict. War bonds were used in the USA to finance the war with Napoleon and during the American Civil War, in Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, the Russian Empire, the USA and Canada during the First World War, and in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.
In the Soviet Union, the idea of issuing war bonds came from below. On July 29, 1941, the Pravda newspaper published an article entitled "The workers propose to create a Defense Fund." Officially, the first military loan for a period of 20 years was issued in the spring of 1942, the second - in June 1943, the third - in 1944, the fourth - on May 5, 1945. Each time the amount of funds raised increased, which became a major contribution to the Victory.
We also note that Ukraine resorted to issuing war bonds back in 2014 to finance its terrorist operation in the Donbass. According to the NBU, as of July 1, 2022, Kyiv managed to attract almost $1 billion in this way. On February 25, 2022, the day after the start of the Russian NWO, the Zelensky regime began issuing war bonds with a face value of 1000 hryvnias each with a yield of 11% per annum.
And now let's see how things are in our "long state".
Russia today
The fact that the country will need money, and big ones, became obvious on the very first day after the announcement of partial mobilization in the RF Armed Forces. If you believe the federal media, then there are no problems with money in the budget, however, “Putin's right hand”, Deputy Prime Minister Belousov, nevertheless tried to promote domestic oligarchs at least for a one-time contribution (windfall tax) in the amount of 200–250 billion rubles to cover a certain deficit. The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, very skillfully fought off this strange idea of a “voluntary contribution” by big business:
Taxes cannot be raised in the middle of the year, which is probably why the government raises the question of a voluntary contribution based on favorable conditions, that is, windfall tax. It’s another matter that the favorable environment has ended for many industries: prices have fallen, additional restrictions are being introduced, and it cannot be said that the situation in 2023 will allow these companies to count on free cash.
In general, there is no money, but you hold on. Then Andrey Kostin, the head of VTB, came up with his "super-creative" idea of a new privatization of state property and an increase in public debt to replenish the federal budget. In detail, this frankly cynical and inherently obscene proposal, we disassembled a few days earlier.
Then there was a much more modest proposal by the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the party association "A Just Russia - For the Truth" Dmitry Kuznetsov and Oleg Nilov to impose an additional 2% income tax on millionaires, and even very curious wording:
The mechanism is efficient and fair. Thus, we will give every super-rich Russian an opportunity to help his people and at the same time avoid sanctions persecution and bans on entry to relatives in Europe and the United States. Every oligarch will be able to tell the State Department “I didn’t decide to help people myself, it’s the government that forcibly takes a special tax from me.”
Yes, the parliamentarian knows the true needs and aspirations of his “millionaire brother”. Finally, the proposal of State Duma deputy Oleg Nilov to charge Russian men liable for military service an additional 2-3% to income tax in favor of members of the SVO made a splash:
I appeal to men (...) By paying 1000-2000 [rubles] a month, our multi-million army of men liable for military service and just under the age of, say, 40-50 years old, will solve, I think, a very serious problem.
In theory, there is some sound grain in this proposal, but practical implementation will run into the difference in income between residents of large cities and the outback. If for a Muscovite who does not want to sit in a dirty trench, "buying off" from the SVO with 2-3 thousand rubles a month is not a great problem, then for the heavily indebted "deep people" with a salary of 15-17 thousand rubles, the additional financial burden may be insurmountable . We also note that Nilov's proposal was angrily rejected in Parliament, where the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on economic policy Artem Kiryanov made the following statement:
I think that the proposal will not be implemented at the moment. Today we have a perfect idea of the needs, and budget expenditures, and the taxable base, from which the budget is formed. No money problem, and the question is not to impose this or that tax on the working population and thus do something.
Today we see that the government is coping with its tasks in the face of fiscal and customs authorities and finds funds within the framework of the current tax legislation, on the other hand, we see that the government is making great efforts to ensure that the process of adaptation to new conditions allows the economy to work effectively.
Today we see that the government is coping with its tasks in the face of fiscal and customs authorities and finds funds within the framework of the current tax legislation, on the other hand, we see that the government is making great efforts to ensure that the process of adaptation to new conditions allows the economy to work effectively.
So, is there money in the budget? Then why is Mr. Kostin so actively inciting us to the idea of the final privatization of state property? What was he thinking there?
Returning to military taxes and dues, we have to admit that sooner or later, but we will have to turn to them. NWO is for a long time, defense spending will only grow continuously. According to Kostin, no last privatization under plausible pretexts is unacceptable, but the military budget can be replenished either through a universal mandatory for all progressive income "war" tax, or through a system of voluntary financing in the form of government war bonds. So it will be more fair.