Posted AT 6:03 AM EDT on 19/12/07
The spreading hegemony of the flat tax
OTTAWA — We begin this progress report on the global flat tax revolution with the curious case of the Pridnestrovie Moldavian Republic, a secessionist enclave (population: 537,000) that acquired de facto independence from Moldova 15 years ago in the four-month War of Transnistria.
Moldova itself, in earlier times one of the republics of the Soviet Union, now aspires to membership in the European Union.
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