"nearly all your taxes get spent on building a palace" hyperbole much? like, really? "all your taxes" - 12 trillion roubles, roughly $171 billion in one year

"nearly all your taxes get spent on building a palace" hyperbole much? like, really? "all your taxes" - 12 trillion roubles, roughly $171 billion in one year out of the total federal budget of ~20 trillion roubles ($285 billion) Федеральная налоговая служба администрировала за год доходы на 12 трлн 612,13 млрд рублей https://www.interfax.ru/business/691856 https://www.interfax.ru/business/691856 the palace, whoever owns it, cost ~$1.5 billion, presumably over 15 years > Стоимость дворца с постройками ФБК оценивает в 100 миллиардов рублей "siloviki" budget - 2 trillion roubles, ~$28 billion https://www.rbc.ru/politics/23/10/2016/580a526d9a7947cb56546df8 https://www.rbc.ru/politics/23/10/2016/580a526d9a7947cb56546... military budget - $65 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... Let's do some math: $28 billion for the "police" $65 billion for the military (U.S. spends ~$700 billion of the total federal budget of $3.9 trillion for FY2018, that's about ~20%, about the same) $1.5 billion for the "palace" None of this stuff combined is "nearly all your taxes", so why would you claim something like that? "more police and military" seems to be no different then what the other countries are doing. The dude might have stolen this palace, but why would you make nonsensical claims?