Uncalculated populism

The 2007 budget turned out to be deficit due to Napoleonic plans to combat the demographic crisis. The size of the deficit without taking into account the stabilization fund will be 174 billion rubles. They say that Kudrin deliberately thought this way in order to curb Putin’s demographic ardor. And today the government must approve the budget so that the Duma can consider it on August 26. They say we’ll patch up the “holes.” One of the options is tax authorities and customs officers: which means that they will begin to collect arrears for previous years and “shake” large companies.