Greece’s Problem Is High Tax Rates, not Tax Evasion

The New York Times has an article describing widespread tax evasion in Greece, along with an implication that the country’s fiscal crisis is largely the result of unpaid taxes and could be mostly solved if taxpayers were more obedient to the state. This is grossly inaccurate. A quick look at the budget numbers reveals that tax [...]

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Beyond Satire and Into the Realm of Moral Turpitude

I was planning on concentrating solely on the debacle in Greece today, but (thanks to Pejman Yousefzadeh’s twitter feed) I saw a blog post about a story that is beyond disgusting. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, so I’ll merely say that it is horrifying that American taxpayers are financing more than 20 percent [...]

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American and German Taxpayers Should Be Rioting, not Blood-Sucking Greek Bureaucrats

My blood pressure spiked after reading this story from the UK-based Times. The Greeks are rioting in the streets because they want our money (i.e., an IMF bailout) and they want to keep all the inefficient and wasteful government policies that caused the crisis. In other words, these bums and leeches want my fiscal burden [...]

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