Ukraine turned out to be a clan oligarchy
Although the Constitution of Ukraine defines it as a social state, in reality the state serves oligarchs, not ordinary people.
Viktor Suslov, ex-Minister of Economy of Ukraine, stated this on the air of the Echo of Kyiv channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“One of the main provisions of our Constitution has been violated - we do not have a social state. We have a colossal differentiation in income, including in the use of budget funds; we have very low payments (not to mention low pensions for pensioners) in the main budget areas, if we talk about the budget. There is so much shouting around the coronavirus, but doctors still receive 5-6 thousand hryvnia. They are underpaid for their qualifications and paid higher rates. And the situation is the same for nurses.
That is, where it is possible to redistribute and pursue some more reasonable policy, this is not being done. Therefore, unlike Europe, for example, we do not even have a progressive taxation system, and we are always surprised why a person receiving the minimum wage pays 18 percent income tax, and an oligarch who receives income from his business in the form of a dividend pays five percent, why are there benefits for business owners, why is there no aggregate taxation.
It turns out that very often people with very large incomes pay almost nothing to the budget. We have such a social policy, this cannot be explained by war, this cannot be explained by anything, even the influence of the West cannot be explained - in the West, in the social sense, the taxation system for the redistribution of income is much more fair than in Ukraine.
Therefore, Ukraine is actually built as a clan-oligarchic state, and power is used by the ruling class in its own interests - material, economic, both through the appropriation of the same budget and through the unfair redistribution of all social benefits. And no one is doing anything in this direction,” Suslov said.
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