Bloody Russian Plagiarist

[Moscow Mule]

Pensioners don't pay many taxes, so ideal scenario for them is to have people die right before they claim pension, something that already happened there with average man's age being 59 and retirement is 60 but those peski Ruskies just won't die...

He looked just like your average, Russian, 60 year old.

What? Dead?

[AtW]

Wouldn't it be more profitable to encourage people to die later and pay higher taxes until they do?

Pensioners don't pay many taxes, so ideal scenario for them is to have people die right before they claim pension, something that already happened there with average man's age being 59 and retirement is 60 but those peski Ruskies just won't die...

[Svalbaard]

Genuis eh that Putin/Medvedev alliance.

[thunderlizard]

Wouldn't it be more profitable to encourage people to die later and pay higher taxes until they do?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Reuters: A time of Modest Proposals

(Reuters) - Russia appears to have come up with a novel way to ease its pension woes and increase revenues at the same time: encourage its people to die sooner and pay more taxes until they do.

OI ! That was my idea. Bastards.