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						INDIRECT TAXES LEAD EUROPE TO THE CLIFF 
						
						
						Many European governments underestimate the
						intelligence of the citizens.  Politicians think they
						can get away with raising indirect taxes, that somehow
						citizens are so stupid to notice hidden taxes.  Well,
						they were surprised when the Europeans discovered
						their dirty game.  Europeans revolt and move to the
						underground economy bypassing taxation alltogether!
  
						
						There are myriad indirect taxes; sales taxes, social
						security tax, tariffs, inheritance tax, transfer tax,
						property tax, purchase tax, occupancy tax, and so it
						goes.  The direct corporate taxes are indirect taxes
						for the consumers, because the prices of products go
						higher.
  
						
						The worst offender is the government of Greece.  All
						parties of the Greek parliament are socialist and very
						corrupt.  There are 300 minotaurs in the Greek
						parliament that suck the blood of Greeks, with huge
						indirect taxes, astronomical public debt, and
						political corruption beyond imagination.  There is a
						48% social security tax, 19% sales tax, taxes on every
						application, ridiculous objective criteria taxes on
						business that you were supposed to accomplish but you
						did not, and taxes on everything under heaven.
  
						
						The socialist government of Costas Karamanlis has been
						in power for a year and is expected not to last for
						another year.  Karamanlis pretends in Brussels that
						his party Nea Demokratia is a conservative party, but
						in reality it is more socialistic then the main
						socialist party Pasok.  The huge indirect taxes and
						the astronomical national debt lead Greece to the
						cliff in a snowball fashion.  All foreign investors
						have disappeared, and most Greeks have moved to the
						underground economy.  Greece is now the #1 underground
						economy in the whole world.  Moreover, Greek
						politicians are the most corrupt politicians in the
						whole world.
  
						
						The source of all corruption in Greece is the Greek
						constitution, which instead of protecting the citizens
						from government abuse, it enslaves the citizens to the
						government.  The European Union should declare the
						Greek constitution null and void, because it violates
						basic human principles of the European Union.
  
						
						Basil Venitis  
						Libertarian Politician of B' Athens 
						http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capitalismforum
  
						
						Βασιλης Βενιτης 
						Φιλελευθερος Πολιτευτης Β' Αθηνων 
						http://groups.yahoo.com/group/giadimosiefsi
						 
						
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