Excellent observation,DL, and accurate. America, was always the model, that other countries tried to emulate. Now,Obama, with his Saul Alinsky, and Marxist, mentality, is trying to emulate the old Russia. Go figure.
Ah, the hypocrisy of tax-hikers who do everything they can to avoid the taxes they wish to impose on others.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.: He tried to avoid $500K in his home state's sales and excise taxes by docking his newly purchased $7 million 76-foot yacht in Rhode Island.
Massachusetts lowered its state income tax in 2001. Given the presumably large number of rich people who pine to pay more taxes, the state allowed tax filers to check a box and voluntarily pay the old, higher rate. In a liberal state of over 3 million tax filers, how...
You need fences to keep people in, and you need to lie, as the LSM does, by omission and spin. Or, perhaps, you can run a small island in shark infested waters and guard the beaches so small boats and planes cannot leave. It simply is a failure, yet it is being sold to our kids in college.
One thing Russia has is that Putin allows exploitation of oil resources, while Obama keeps them off limits on acreage he continually is increasing. Petroleum is fueling Russian prosperity.