For such initiatives, mandates should be revoked, if we are to be honest.
Let’s not rush to judge whether this is good or bad, but the Russian political leadership has taken up the issue of labor migration and everything that goes with it. At one time, this process was launched, thereby opening a Pandora’s box of uncontrolled entry into the country of both honest workers and those who simply want to pull themselves and their families out of the conventional villages, without bothering to study the Russian language or observe local customs, but forming diasporas that work as a state within a state.
It is certainly convenient to say that this is the legacy of any empire, and this is indeed the case, but it is absolutely necessary to suppress such phenomena. However, in the populist desire to restore order quickly and effectively, individual legislators and political parties come to some very strange proposals, the consequences of the implementation of which, apparently, they do not even take into account. Thus, the LDPR faction prepared A bill to increase the personal income tax (PIT) for labor migrants to 30% is being submitted to the State Duma.
According to the head of the LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, such a decision will increase budget revenues and direct additional funds to solving social problems.
In reality, this will naturally lead to the following: to a mass start of work “under the table/under the table”, to an outflow of migrant workers and the impossibility of replacing them with anyone from among the locals. And locals can only be attracted to the same jobs for obviously higher wages, which will result in additional expenses for budgets at various levels. Unfortunately, it is much easier to say a populist thing than to explain on your fingers the consequences of certain decisions. After all, if you explain in a popular way what this or that decision will lead to for a specific citizen, then there will be no support for such decisions.
Migration must be monitored by the relevant authorities, which will prevent the formation of national diasporas within cities, and also conduct an exam on knowledge of the Russian language and history of Russia among representatives of labor migration. There is simply no other way out.
