>>I ask myself - what "budget" and where do they (Communist governments) get their money?
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>Same as here. Taxing transactions.
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>>They don't tax people, so no revenue there. Companies are owned by the state, so no tax/ancillary revenues there.
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>Sure they do (I mean did). See http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/from_redirect/0,10987,1101880321-148936,00.html
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>Companies were state owned. But this is the same way as a person that works for the government or a hospital in Canada still must pay income tax.

Yet another case of I cannot believe everything I read/hear. I have heard countless times that Russians were so averse to income taxes because they have never paid them before. This was the main problem with making capitalism work there.
Who knew? Who knows???