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How Do CEE States Deal with Families? [ONLINE DEBATE]
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How Do CEE States Deal with Families? [ONLINE DEBATE]
For states and state economies to function properly in face of ageing European societies, it is crucial to develop a social system and an economic structure that can keep pace with – or even positively influence – demographic trends. Emigration, brain drain, depopulation, labor shortages, or ageing are all effects to which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) must find appropriate responses.
Happy Tax Freedom Day from (And to) Lithuania
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Happy Tax Freedom Day from (And to) Lithuania
Yesterday Lithuanian Free Market Institute celebrated the Tax Freedom day in Lithuania. A person earning an average wage here had to work 4 months and 23 days just to support government spending (and it would be way more if not for inflation). Lithuanian Free Market Institute calculates this with their own tax calculator that also provides a receipt for specific spending.