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The Exorbitant Cost of Being a Small Country

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Piketty, T. (2017). The Exorbitant Cost of Being a Small Country. In Piketty, T. Chronicles: On Our Political and Economic Crisis. Penguin Books, pp. 139-141

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To pick up a few billion in exports, we’re now willing to sell anything to anyone. We’re willing to become a tax haven, to have oligarchs and multinationals paying less in taxes than the middle and working classes, to ally with rather unprogressive oil emirates just to get a few crumbs for our football teams. [...]

this is savage

(on France selling arms to Russia)

—p.140 by Thomas Piketty 9 years, 1 month ago

To pick up a few billion in exports, we’re now willing to sell anything to anyone. We’re willing to become a tax haven, to have oligarchs and multinationals paying less in taxes than the middle and working classes, to ally with rather unprogressive oil emirates just to get a few crumbs for our football teams. [...]

this is savage

(on France selling arms to Russia)

—p.140 by Thomas Piketty 9 years, 1 month ago