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The problem is that the ones paying for it are not the tax evaders and corrupt politicians that caused the mess.

And as usual, it is easier to divert blame to "evil foreigners".

Not that there isn't internal dissent: http://www.euractiv.com/euro-finance/greek-journalist-acquit...



Tax evasion was basically 100%. Sure, it's easy to say "I'm only cheating a little, blame the big cheaters" but everybody was in on it. The ones paying for it chose to be unaware of what was happening.


Yes, as far as I know this is correct. In fact, reports by the monitors said that there wasn't even a capability to actually collect taxes in the tax collecting agencies, apart from no willingness and no real idea of how/why.




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