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Warpy

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1. What the new government needs to do is pass tax laws with real teeth

Reply to no more banksters (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 03:28 PM

Feb 2015

Greece got into trouble in the first place because its tax collection system has always been an honor system and the rich have no honor. So they borrowed from banksters who were perfectly willing to let them go so deeply into debt they'd never crawl out.

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