...debit/credit is a form of slavery, it should be killed. Debit/credit is an invention from big business to enslave the poor.
Well, you could stockpile your earnings, live under the bridge, and buy a house in, let's say.. 20 years.
But don`t think of me as biased if i tell you that people making 50 grand a year and more declare income as high as 4.000â¬. it`s not the little folk that are tax evading.
I'm not trying to justify this, but it is probably because of progressive tax rate. The more the rate is, bigger is tax evasion. Also, those people that are evading, receive something (service) for nothing.
Just to make it clear, i'm not accusing pateras, abunai or some other individual, just writing in general. ..and English is not my mother tongue, so sorry for mistakes
Greek government (like any other in fact) doesn't plan in long term. Longest for any government is next (re)election. So, for past few years we see that EU bailouts indebted members by reprogramming, or giving them another loan with smaller interests. No one wants to loose their money, so this could be the way to retrieve at least some of it back. Last thing any creditor wants is riots or civil war or something, because then it can forget all of it.
Some could say that this is way that rich wants to enslave the poor (or Germany the Greece), but if you look at the situation, Germans have to suffer the losses that Greeks can't repay. That's not a good way of enslaving i'd say.
Don't forget that Greek gov. falsified statistical data for years to be able to enter EU, and only received "harsh" no-no from EU Commission when that got out
BBC NEWS | Business | Greece warned on false euro data
As for welfare and public spending, well, big problem is overgrown state with huge bureaucracy, public sector jobs and strong unions. You need to understand that public sector is paid mostly from private sector. Let's say you have constant number of private sector employees, and growing number of useless bureaucracy. That means state needs more money for more people that are paid from the state budget. Also, public jobs have strong unions that refuses any cuts or lay-outs. Only 2 things state can do in this case is raise taxes or seek for credit. If you raise taxes, some of private sector companies will close, some will fire few workers because of rising expenditures. Then you got situation with less private sector which fills the budget, and more public sector which spends the budget. And then, the government usually creates more public sector jobs (oh, look, we solve the unemployment problem) to win next elections. Who pays the debt? Who cares, we probably won't rule when that time comes. I'd say that time is very near for Greece.
I found this picture on the Internet, but don't know if the numbers are true. Maybe you can say for Greece and UK:
