> Kuwait has taken a distinctly more authoritarian direction since the accession of the new monarch, 84-year-old Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in December 2023.
Dude’s is likely dying in 5 years and doing shit like this???
HistoricalMix400 on
Who exactly are they stripping citizenship from?
erasmus_phillo on
“ As citizens are provided with generous services, analysts charge that Kuwaiti authorities may be operating on the assumption that reducing the number of citizens will bring down funding requirements.
“Kuwait’s economy is dependent on oil export revenues, not tax revenues paid by citizens. As a result, adding citizens means that the available oil export revenues need to be divided among a larger number of people. As a result, the fewer citizens, the less fiscal pressure on the state. In this, Kuwait differs very much from countries in which new citizens pay taxes and typically are not a long-term fiscal burden on the state”
They’re basically doing this because the other alternative would be austerity which is significantly more politically unpopular
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France24 [also reported on this](https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250315-an-authoritarian-shift-in-kuwait-stripps-42-000-citizens-of-their-nationality)
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> Kuwait has taken a distinctly more authoritarian direction since the accession of the new monarch, 84-year-old Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in December 2023.
Dude’s is likely dying in 5 years and doing shit like this???
Who exactly are they stripping citizenship from?
“ As citizens are provided with generous services, analysts charge that Kuwaiti authorities may be operating on the assumption that reducing the number of citizens will bring down funding requirements.
“Kuwait’s economy is dependent on oil export revenues, not tax revenues paid by citizens. As a result, adding citizens means that the available oil export revenues need to be divided among a larger number of people. As a result, the fewer citizens, the less fiscal pressure on the state. In this, Kuwait differs very much from countries in which new citizens pay taxes and typically are not a long-term fiscal burden on the state”
They’re basically doing this because the other alternative would be austerity which is significantly more politically unpopular