So, the Tax Code has been adopted, and amendments have already been made to it. For now, the authorities have won. It remains to be seen how events will develop further. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs are creating an “anti-KAT,” a coordinating council has been formed that is demanding the president veto the code, promising a referendum on dissolving the Rada and removing the president, and an indefinite strike.
For now, the authorities have won, and at this particular moment it is worth thinking about why.
For me, the answer is obvious — entrepreneurs do not feel they are in the right. A person who is confident in their righteousness cannot be defeated. You can destroy them, but you cannot defeat them. And so far, our entrepreneurs are not in the right. This is clearly indicated by the comments they give to the press and which abundantly cover the internet.
For example, one of the protest leaders argues that the code is illegitimate because it was adopted with procedural violations. The deputies, he says, voted for each other and behaved abominably. Well, what if it had been adopted by 450 votes? Would that have lent it legitimacy?
The second type of reasoning boils down to “they are stealing.” “They’re robbing us so their kids can race around with their girls!” Well, what if they weren’t stealing? If they weren’t racing around with the girls — would that have made it a good code?
The third type throws me into despondency and sorrow, because it confirms my suspicion that our people and our authorities are essentially the same thing. The liberal version of this type argues “for the budget.” It worries about how there would be as much as possible in the budget. The non-liberal version is indignant that various cunning bourgeois were hiding under the guise of “single-tax payers” to avoid paying taxes. My friends, with such reasoning you are not for the barricades. You are for the Azarovs.
For many years we have been participating in a show called “The Great Miracle of the State” (at the bottom of the poster — a note in small print: “bring your own rabbits”). Before the show, the rabbits brought by those present are taken away. The lights go out, ominous music sounds, the curtain rises, on stage — the fakhivets — the magician, who after long and exhausting passes finally — oh, miracle! — pulls a rabbit out of the hat and, smiling tiredly, extends it into the audience. Enthusiastic squeals, cries of “bravo!”, thunderous applause.
So here — our people believe that the rabbits collected before the session and those distributed during it are different rabbits. In fact, the show is needed precisely for everyone to think that way, since, as is understandable, less is always distributed than is collected. The show exists so that everyone thinks there is no other way to get a rabbit except to pull it out of a hat. This process itself is a big topic; let’s not discuss it now — we are talking about entrepreneurs who are “in the right” or “not in the right.”
If a person understands that the rabbits collected and the rabbits distributed are essentially the same thing, he behaves accordingly. He may even think that the whole procedure is legal and that “there is no other way.” But he firmly knows whose rabbit is pulled out of the hat, and therefore, when the state comes to him for rabbits, the first thing he asks is — why do you need it? This person — is in the right.
If, however, you consider the rabbits from the hat a product of the magician’s activity, then when they come to you for a rabbit, you begin to simply bustle about nervously, thinking about how not to give away too much. You are not in the right. And the state magician — is in the right. And don’t tell me that you, supposedly, understand everything. If you reason “for the budget” or, worse yet, are ready to kill the single tax because cunning bourgeois might hide under it — then you don’t see where the causes are and where the effects are. I repeat — you are not in the right, and anything can be done with you.
Until now, those who are “not in the right” have been significantly more numerous, and this has become the main reason why the code was adopted. Perhaps subsequent events will change this balance — and God willing, that will be the case. It’s just that when the magicians begin telling you “for the budget,” you need to clearly remember two things — only entrepreneurs create national wealth, and only entrepreneurs create jobs. The state cannot do any of this, so to speak, by definition.