Where is our money, the Russian Federation?

How much do we pay to the state and what do we get for it?

The question is by no means rhetorical. For our money - the money of taxpayers - amounts to almost 11% of GDP. They are deducted from our salaries, laid in the price of goods, taken to retirement to those who have already worked their own (in detail about this - on page 4).

For this, the state owes us something.

Firstly, it owes us common benefits, that is, those benefits that each of us individually cannot buy for ourselves: protection against crime (as in reality-read on page 6), security from external (real, not fictional in paranoids) of the enemy, clean air. You can install a filter on a tap with water, but you won’t clean the sky above your head with a vacuum cleaner, but we breathe a damn one (about that on page 16).

The state should also formulate the understandable and transparent rules of the game - in the political, economic, public markets. Actually, this is the main thing that we pay for politicians and officials salary. However, these rules - norms and laws - should not only be formulated, but the state must follow their execution - for this we pay law enforcement agencies and judges. What in practice is in discussion on page 10 and in an article on page 17.

Finally, we pay the state - through the same UST (unified social tax) so that it helps the poor, children, the elderly, chronic patients, for whom the lack of money means death (p. 14). Could you pay more? Maybe. The income tax rate in Sweden is more than 50% and social services are the best in the world. But the trouble is that no matter how much we pay, this money will either be stolen or spent in such a way that I want to cry: the state is well able to only take it away, otherwise it is clinically ineffective, and in the field of providing public goods and completely bankrupt. Why are we so unlucky - on page 18.

What in the end we get for our money - about that in the main topic of the room.