I was reading this article in Athens News and it struck me (more…)
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Impact of Taxation on the Public (more…)
Do you think you are an enabler of the Greek government or do you think your actions are actually helping?...
There are many sources that carry detailed answers to these questions and I could argue they are all correct but...
America's fiscal union (more…)
A business man in Greece was highlighting how the actual tax rate on 20,000Euros earnings will be around 79% if...
How the 11.7 billion Euro Greek government "cuts" breakdown and our analysis (more…)
Tim Speiss was being interviewed by Bloomberg TV during a section named "Investor Worry: Entitlements, Stagnate Job Market" (video below)....
Athens News is reporting a mini revolution on a small Greek island where the islanders of Hydra trapped the police...
I left a comment on this video (more…)
Let me say from the off that I think Peter Schiff rocks but when it comes to austerity in Europe...
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (more…)
So the news reports that Rajoy is following the same program of "austerity" as Greece. The effect that so-called "austerity"...
Russia Today commented on an article by Yannis Varoufakis regarding the ECB profiting by 840 million Euros on loans made...
The EU summit on the weekend has announced that banks could now get direct access to a country's tax revenue...
The mayor of Volos is the most forward thinking poltician I know of in Europe. He is encouraging something which...
Crippled by debt, propped up by European powers, handicapped by an ineffective administration: uncompromising diagnoses of Greece’s ills are not...
Found a blog that agrees with independence4wales on most things. (more…)
The big target for the Greek government has been to reduce the primary budget deficit (ie for the government to...
Reuters has a very broad article today outlining he possible consequences of a Greek exit from the Euro currency. It...
In a word choice. Liberals/socialists love to say if the state was not there to provide healthcare & pensions, people...
Trade deficit. That's it. Greece has a trade deficit of around 20 billion Euros a year. That means, Greece as...
Countries with the lowest taxes in the world – Government revenue as a percentage of GDP (Wikipedia)
This article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the listed countries. Three sources are used, one...
Governments make promises to do this or that. Except they are not the ones that have to pay for these...
The government is hinting it will introduce green taxes on home improvements such as boiler repairs and extensions like conservatories...
Bailouts say banks can borrow as much money as they want, if the government can't pay the loans back directly...
Seriously, why does voluntary taxation not get 100% support from the population? (more…)
EU Carbon Tax. Getting straight down to business. (more…)
The ECB is currently influenced by German politicians (Bear with me, it takes a while for me to get to...
Assuming Germany and the EU decide not to "bail out" Greek bank depositors. What does that say about the last...
Threats are the only tools that Papademos and the Greek central bank has. Logical argument is not on their side....
If your neighbour found it impossible to pay their mortgage and your banker came to you and said, "you must...
1. Suppression of Information. Any news coverage regarding the Greek government bail out is shrouded in secrecy. Any news coverage...
http://www.debtocracy.gr/indexen.html For the first time in Greece, a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt...
There are 2 fundamental issues in Greece which could completely dissolve the Troika's control. 2 things that if they are exploited by...
In case anyone was under the impression that just because Romney was allegedly successful in business that must mean he is for...
Before talking about the new Drachma, we first have to identify the problem with the current Euro currency system and...
Kathimerini is one of the biggest newspapers in Greece. Today "the editors" have come out with an article dealing with...
I wrote yesterday how the media in Greece was ramping up the propaganda about how bad life would be for...
Since Papademos took over the country as an unlected Prime Minster the talk of a general election has been clouded...
Whether you agree with it or not the Financial Transaction Tax boils down to one thing. An unlected government (the...
You would think the government would realise that Greeks don't like taxes and they don't want to pay taxes so...
If there was any doubt that increasing taxes reduces government tax revenues the Greek economic crisis proves it. Despite massive increases in taxes over the...
Tax evasion as a "problem" in Greece is a fiction put forward by successive Greek governments. The purpose of creating...
As if Greeks needed more evidence that they were living under a tyrannical government, the Greek government has decided it...
Athens News carried an article today saying how 3 out of 5 Greeks approve of Papademos as Prime Minister. How...
The cars are people, some people are richer than others, just like some cars are more expensive than others. You...
The UK government agreed to pay X amount to public sector workers when tyhey retired at a certain age. Now...
Athens News reports today that the first round of "labour reserve" will be drawn on Monday. I have said before...
I'll get straight to the point. This is the quote In a July article in The Globalist, an online political...
The Greek debt problem is extremely easy to solve. Before it can be explained why, we first need to understand...
Reuters carried an in-depth article in July of 2011, I have pasted it in below. Basically it shows that the...
So it was announced today that Greek has been granted the next tranche of the bailout by the troika. The...
The following links show live video streaming of the mass protests in Athens in today. (more…)
If you are an American, do you want to pay an extra 9% for everything you buy? If you're a...
Let us summarise what socialism stands for. Looking after the less fortunate in society with money from the more fortunate...
Reading newspaper websites it seems like a lot of Germans and British have a superior attitude to Greece. Like they...
It is very simple to explain why taxes and so called environmentally friendly products kill the environment. Imagine you have...
