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Difference of Systems
May 17 2013
US President Barak Obama stated that Steven Miller, the acting
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner, had been fired. And do
you know why that man lost his job? His organization carried out
`inappropriate' checks at the organizations that are connected with
the currently opposition Republican Party. (Naturally, I am talking
about the US Republican Party, because, according to Galust Sahakyan,
the Armenian Republican Party will never be opposition.) On Wednesday,
Obama mentioned in his speech the condemnable behavior that was
revealed by the report of the Treasury Department Inspector General.
`I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but
especially in the IRS.' In a nutshell, the US President got angry and
banged his fist on the table, so to speak. There are at least two
interesting facts here. The first is that there is the Treasury
Department Inspector General in the US who supervises the activities
of that body and reveals abuse. Can you imagine such an office in
Armenia? The one who would hold that office would be one of the most
corrupted officials in our country. And the second fact certainly is
that the `tax chief' was punished for carrying out inappropriate
checks at opposition organizations. In Armenia, the opposite is more
probable; the tax office would be punished for not carrying out
inappropriate checks at some bakery or sausage factory whose owner was
allegedly linked to the opposition. And he would be punished more
severely, if an appropriate check was unexpectedly carried out at that
suspicious man's business. That is the difference of the two systems.
In one, they encourage freedom of expression, in general and free
entrepreneurship, in particular, and all those who impede that are
punished. In the other, it is the opposite; they try to spread the
government's influence over entrepreneurship. It is visible
particularly during elections; the government's campaign office clerks
approach any small and medium entrepreneur and say that if he doesn't
bring a certain amount of votes, he will be punished. The `punishment'
is that representatives of different government bodies, including the
tax office, will come and will do everything necessary to have that
person's business closed. The Republicans call it `working during
elections.' An entrepreneur has two options here, either to go for
confrontation or to submit. However, in the second case, the
humiliation he has suffered remains in the person's mind. And it is
quite probable that this wound is so deep that he decides to leave the
country, along with his family, a decision that, I think, should not
be encouraged or welcomed, but is humanly understandable. In the case
of big business, a bit more complex mechanisms are employed, but the
substance is the same. Now is it understandable why the Republican
Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) cannot
be opposition? ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/17/154340/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
May 17 2013
US President Barak Obama stated that Steven Miller, the acting
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner, had been fired. And do
you know why that man lost his job? His organization carried out
`inappropriate' checks at the organizations that are connected with
the currently opposition Republican Party. (Naturally, I am talking
about the US Republican Party, because, according to Galust Sahakyan,
the Armenian Republican Party will never be opposition.) On Wednesday,
Obama mentioned in his speech the condemnable behavior that was
revealed by the report of the Treasury Department Inspector General.
`I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but
especially in the IRS.' In a nutshell, the US President got angry and
banged his fist on the table, so to speak. There are at least two
interesting facts here. The first is that there is the Treasury
Department Inspector General in the US who supervises the activities
of that body and reveals abuse. Can you imagine such an office in
Armenia? The one who would hold that office would be one of the most
corrupted officials in our country. And the second fact certainly is
that the `tax chief' was punished for carrying out inappropriate
checks at opposition organizations. In Armenia, the opposite is more
probable; the tax office would be punished for not carrying out
inappropriate checks at some bakery or sausage factory whose owner was
allegedly linked to the opposition. And he would be punished more
severely, if an appropriate check was unexpectedly carried out at that
suspicious man's business. That is the difference of the two systems.
In one, they encourage freedom of expression, in general and free
entrepreneurship, in particular, and all those who impede that are
punished. In the other, it is the opposite; they try to spread the
government's influence over entrepreneurship. It is visible
particularly during elections; the government's campaign office clerks
approach any small and medium entrepreneur and say that if he doesn't
bring a certain amount of votes, he will be punished. The `punishment'
is that representatives of different government bodies, including the
tax office, will come and will do everything necessary to have that
person's business closed. The Republicans call it `working during
elections.' An entrepreneur has two options here, either to go for
confrontation or to submit. However, in the second case, the
humiliation he has suffered remains in the person's mind. And it is
quite probable that this wound is so deep that he decides to leave the
country, along with his family, a decision that, I think, should not
be encouraged or welcomed, but is humanly understandable. In the case
of big business, a bit more complex mechanisms are employed, but the
substance is the same. Now is it understandable why the Republican
Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) cannot
be opposition? ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/17/154340/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia