Actually New York Times, It’s Impossible for the Rich to ‘Hide’ Their Wealth

Why are Cubans so poor? They’ve done very well in the U.S., where emigres from the perpetually recessed country have risen to the top in sports, business and politics. Yet in their own country Cubans are desperately impoverished.

The above question is obviously rhetorical. We know why Cubans in Cuba are poor. They are because the government there has near total control over the economy. The state owns just about all production, along with income that springs from production. Of course Cubans are poor. That’s a given where the income tax rate is basically 100%.

Interesting about all this is that while there are surely some congenital socialist holdouts in our midst, most in the U.S. now acknowledge that socialism and communism don’t work. The economic results of state control are much worse than awful. The 20th century revealed in bloody fashion (and continues to reveal in countries like Cuba today) what happens when governments become too powerful such that economic and personal freedom are suffocated. Freedom works, and it works very well. End of story.