A lot of towns have empty shops and many charity shops around them. The people that would lease the shops and run them as a business, thus serving the local community, can't afford to do so because of crippling business taxes. The crippling business taxes indirectly help to support the charity shops, and ultimately, their political aims.
It's a great way of re-structuring the economic infrastructure for political gain. An entire class of people - shopkeepers, business people, entrepreneurs, risk-takers, that might have contributed to that infrastructure, are now unable to do so.
Stalin was too crude with his mass deportations of certain classes of people such as the independent-minded Kulaks, he should have just introduced a crippling business tax.
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