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The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said you are one brave young man. And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

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When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.

Mart Laar

My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.

Mart Laar

Within my first meeting when I proposed to introduce the flat tax in Estonia they looked on me as I am a little bit crazy. And asked do you know something on the economy? and I answer economically, no not so much. But I think this is a great idea because it looks to work. And I didn't know then that I would be the first one to see this, but I introduced it. I was 32, I was young and crazy, so I didn't know what is possible and what's not, so I did impossible things.

Mart Laar

Mart Laar

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Born: April 22, 1960 (age 58)

Bio: Mart Laar is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia's rapid economic development during the 1990s.

Known for:

War in the woods (1992)
Estonia in World War II
The Challenge for Europe (1994)

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