Is this like how North Korea says they don’t have any taxes?
pristine_planet on
No tax under Communism, must be great, right? It isn’t. This is what happens when politicians say they will get rid of taxes but won’t tell you what they want to replace them with.
GLFR_59 on
It’s fucking Albania lol they could do whatever popular idea they want and the place would still be a shit hole.
Misterfahrenheit120 on
Did they actually arm all of their citizens? I’m betting there’s more to that
CheckOutrageous2111 on
There’s a saying “if you go far enough left you get your gun rights back” it’s true
unrequitednuance on
Libertarians would never smile at the state giving the people guns.
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_The communists did not tax, they took everything. Through the law on the extraordinary taxation of war profits (January 13, 1945), the regime collected approximately 92% of the total profits estimated to have been earned by traders during the period of April 7, 1939, to November 28, 1944._
As an Albanian myself, I am dumbfounded by westerners trying to protect the criminal communist regime.
A rough translation of Article 37 of communist Albania’s constitution:
_All citizens are obliged to pay tax in proportion to their economic possibilities. State taxes and exemption from paying taxes are determined by law._
I can’t find sth on the gun laws atm, but I doubt everyone had them, including political dissidents.
__Edit 2: on Guns__
_Our Party has made no concessions of this kind; on the contrary, it has intensified the class struggle in town and countryside from day to day, it has struck mercilessly at the kulaks, the big landowners, the big merchants, speculators, money-lenders and other such people; ___the Party has disarmed them___, not permitting them to raise their head in town or countryside._ – Enver Hoxha, Communist Leader of Albania
So it seems that that ___almost___ is a pretty important part of the sentence.
__Edit 3: I’m spending way too much time on this and probably nobody will read it but it’s interesting__
_The campaign for the election of the National Liberation Anti-Fascist Councils was faced with the open opposition of the population in the northern part of the country, which since January 1945 organized what is known as Koplik uprising. ___Partisan units of the People’s Defense, fearful of the armed reactions of this population, undertook a broad disarmament campaign.___ Reports from CPA (Communist Party of Albania) circuit committees in the north of the country clearly demonstrate the violence exercised in various areas such as: Peshkopi, Shkodra highlands, Mirdite, Puke, Mat to compel their inhabitants to obey the commands and power of the communists. In relations to Mehmet Shehu, commander of operations in the North sends Enver Hoxha are clearly understood deaths by firing squad without trial, maltreatments and burning of northern highlanders houses. They also document the mass imprisonment and internment of this population.
According to Mehmet Shehu, the motto of the operation would be: ___”The reaction should be eliminated.
The people should be organized and mobilized. To whom to seek the weapon, either the weapon or the soul must be delivered.”___ Similar situations were registered in 1946, when the disarmament operation extended to the south of Albania._
You don’t need taxes when EU protects you due to your ethnic minority status and 90% of your population is employed by the Russian mob. They ain’t paying taxes anyway. Might as well take the W and stop collecting.
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Love this 👏
TaxationIsEvil on
Horseshoe theory was right?
Ukrpharm on
Bro, there was nothing to tax there haha
RemarkableCopy4708 on
I mean, yeah. If taxes consume 100% of your income, it effectively stops being a tax and becomes a complete appropriation of your earnings.
so technically, “there are no taxes”.
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Visited Albania in 2017 and was having coffee in a lovely cafe in a pretty town (Bajram Curri) and a couple of 10/10 ladies dressed to kill sat at the table next to my wife and me. A beggar came up to them asking for money, and this lady without hesitation pulled a knife on him and screamed at him as he shambled away. Albanians are not to be trifled with!
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Still was authoritarian as hell
Is this like how North Korea says they don’t have any taxes?
No tax under Communism, must be great, right? It isn’t. This is what happens when politicians say they will get rid of taxes but won’t tell you what they want to replace them with.
It’s fucking Albania lol they could do whatever popular idea they want and the place would still be a shit hole.
Did they actually arm all of their citizens? I’m betting there’s more to that
There’s a saying “if you go far enough left you get your gun rights back” it’s true
Libertarians would never smile at the state giving the people guns.
_The communists did not tax, they took everything. Through the law on the extraordinary taxation of war profits (January 13, 1945), the regime collected approximately 92% of the total profits estimated to have been earned by traders during the period of April 7, 1939, to November 28, 1944._
As an Albanian myself, I am dumbfounded by westerners trying to protect the criminal communist regime.
[source](https://communistcrimes.org/en/erosion-private-property-albania-1943-1961)
__Edit 1:__
Also:
A rough translation of Article 37 of communist Albania’s constitution:
_All citizens are obliged to pay tax in proportion to their economic possibilities. State taxes and exemption from paying taxes are determined by law._
I can’t find sth on the gun laws atm, but I doubt everyone had them, including political dissidents.
__Edit 2: on Guns__
_Our Party has made no concessions of this kind; on the contrary, it has intensified the class struggle in town and countryside from day to day, it has struck mercilessly at the kulaks, the big landowners, the big merchants, speculators, money-lenders and other such people; ___the Party has disarmed them___, not permitting them to raise their head in town or countryside._ – Enver Hoxha, Communist Leader of Albania
So it seems that that ___almost___ is a pretty important part of the sentence.
[Source: page 807 of Enver Hoxha’s own works](https://www.bannedthought.net/Albania/Hoxha/Hoxha-SW1-Processed.pdf)
__Edit 3: I’m spending way too much time on this and probably nobody will read it but it’s interesting__
_The campaign for the election of the National Liberation Anti-Fascist Councils was faced with the open opposition of the population in the northern part of the country, which since January 1945 organized what is known as Koplik uprising. ___Partisan units of the People’s Defense, fearful of the armed reactions of this population, undertook a broad disarmament campaign.___ Reports from CPA (Communist Party of Albania) circuit committees in the north of the country clearly demonstrate the violence exercised in various areas such as: Peshkopi, Shkodra highlands, Mirdite, Puke, Mat to compel their inhabitants to obey the commands and power of the communists. In relations to Mehmet Shehu, commander of operations in the North sends Enver Hoxha are clearly understood deaths by firing squad without trial, maltreatments and burning of northern highlanders houses. They also document the mass imprisonment and internment of this population.
According to Mehmet Shehu, the motto of the operation would be: ___”The reaction should be eliminated.
The people should be organized and mobilized. To whom to seek the weapon, either the weapon or the soul must be delivered.”___ Similar situations were registered in 1946, when the disarmament operation extended to the south of Albania._
[Source: The Albanian Authority on Access to Information on the former State Security Service](https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/migration/al/Framework-Study-for-web.pdf)
You don’t need taxes when EU protects you due to your ethnic minority status and 90% of your population is employed by the Russian mob. They ain’t paying taxes anyway. Might as well take the W and stop collecting.
Love this 👏
Horseshoe theory was right?
Bro, there was nothing to tax there haha
I mean, yeah. If taxes consume 100% of your income, it effectively stops being a tax and becomes a complete appropriation of your earnings.
so technically, “there are no taxes”.
Visited Albania in 2017 and was having coffee in a lovely cafe in a pretty town (Bajram Curri) and a couple of 10/10 ladies dressed to kill sat at the table next to my wife and me. A beggar came up to them asking for money, and this lady without hesitation pulled a knife on him and screamed at him as he shambled away. Albanians are not to be trifled with!