Is your point that no one is working in Greece? They are. They just, well, aren’t paying much taxes. - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.html .
Sure, the government can’t do anything with what it doesn’t take from someone. So half doesn’t make much to be taxed, the other half just doesn’t have it taxed. Hey Hellas, how’s that “I know best what to do with my money” working out for you,” my dear?
“So half doesn’t make much to be taxed, the other half just doesn’t have it taxed.”
Looking into the America’s future, are you?
With 47% of Americans not paying any federal income taxes, and the increasing burden on the rest will serve to increase tax avoidance …we are just about there.
More interestingly though, California and some other states are in a much worse shape than Greece … .
California at least has a bunch of natural resources - oil is naturally seeping from the ocean floor in Santa Barbara Channel, so if it goes bankrupt, there is a way of collecting …
OmqR-IV.0 almost 14 years ago
Good transferral of one theme onto another. I like. And possibly a pun intended, too.
davesmithsit almost 14 years ago
There goes another trillion down the HOLE!!!!!
petergrt almost 14 years ago
IMF, as a condition of the bail-out, is requiring Greece to ‘privatize’ their health care system … .
WarBush almost 14 years ago
The IMF is a third world predator. Look at what they did to Argentina when they needed a bail out. Worked real well for them, didn’t it?
4uk4ata almost 14 years ago
Is your point that no one is working in Greece? They are. They just, well, aren’t paying much taxes. - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.html .
Sure, the government can’t do anything with what it doesn’t take from someone. So half doesn’t make much to be taxed, the other half just doesn’t have it taxed. Hey Hellas, how’s that “I know best what to do with my money” working out for you,” my dear?
petergrt almost 14 years ago
“So half doesn’t make much to be taxed, the other half just doesn’t have it taxed.”
Looking into the America’s future, are you?
With 47% of Americans not paying any federal income taxes, and the increasing burden on the rest will serve to increase tax avoidance …we are just about there.
More interestingly though, California and some other states are in a much worse shape than Greece … .
petergrt almost 14 years ago
California at least has a bunch of natural resources - oil is naturally seeping from the ocean floor in Santa Barbara Channel, so if it goes bankrupt, there is a way of collecting …
bavolet almost 14 years ago
Really. Exactly which states are being supported by California, pray tell?
Oh wait, you must mean the Mexican states from which all the little illegals come from. Yeah, they definitely pay for those people.