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11. Due to extremely taxes and an extremely unfavorable official exchange rate, citizens hoard dollars illegally and it exacerbates their currency reserve problems.

Note that 11 is really an issue of both government policy and the culture. Tax evasion is both a response to inflation and a result of a culture that doesn’t see an issue with putting private benefit over public good.

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On the other hand, its antagonising to see such malfancioning of the state and keep feeding the machine with taxes

Yes, it’s a really a breakdown of civil society as a whole. Any individual person is going to through their hands up at the whole thing and go along with it because it appears there’s nothing to be done.

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