Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings

Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by cm2187 on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:47PM (#22387752)

As far as I am aware, tax fraud was (and probably still is) endemic in Greece. If you like to think it is just Amazon not paying its taxes, believe what you want. If you go see a doctor in Greece he will ask for cash.

What do you mean the population wasn't asked? It's a democracy. The population elects polititians that vote laws and make decisions. Like in almost every country and for almost every topic. If the greeks didn't care about what their polititians did, good for them. But they aren't children. They are a sovereign democracy. They own the consequences.

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Re:Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from... by dependenttypes on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:20PM (#22388009)

> If you go see a doctor in Greece he will ask for cash.

Yes? Cash is the standard method of payment, what is the issue exactly? Regardless of that, employees (who are the majority of the workforce in pretty much every country) can't tax-evade.

> What do you mean the population wasn't asked?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385367

And at the end of the day, even if there was true democracy it would still not make sense to blame all the population for the choice of the majority. In the same way that you can't blame every American for the killer drones, or every German for the election of the NSDAP.

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