Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it

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4. This is true... but there is a way to combat it; the countries

just don't have the stomach or resources for it. Policies have to change to make having a family, and supporting the extended family, easier. That will mean the rich have to give up some of their riches so their workers can live a decent life with their families. Prices have to come down so the cost of living is reasonable to everyone. These types of policies will never happen until we get hold of the rich and make them pay their fair share. Tax the rich until there are no rich no more. I saw someone posted that line yesterday in a reply, and have been trying to remember the song from which it came since then. But we don't have to tax them out of existence; we just have to go back to taxing policies we had pre 1960's, with a truly fair and progressive tax structure. Making 3000x what your workers make is ridiculous, greedy, and flat-out evil in my book.