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Farmer-Rick

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4. I remember people bemoaning Greece as austerity

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Jul 19, 2025, 10:44 AM

Jul 19

Was forced down the throats of the average Greek citizen in order to be eligible for an EU loan.

People said Greece allowed their filthy-rich to pay so little in taxes, it lead to the need for constant loans to the government to pay for general functions. It was all Greece's own fault for not holding their rich oligarchs to account.

As federal employees pensions were ended, as the Greek form of Social Security went unfunded, as retirement age was increased, as government services disappeared and roads and infrastructure were left to crumble, Greece was able to dig out of the hole of debt it was put into. All because their filthy-rich refused to pay their taxes.

Austerity, the stupidest idea for paying off the rich ever invented. Coming back soon to a government near you.

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Thank you for your attention to this matter. [View all] Swede Jul 19 OP

And we're allowing this... dlilafae Jul 19 #1

"We" are not allowing this. Many of us are working many hours a week in the resistance. Amaryllis Jul 19 #5

Isn't that the fucking truth ZDU Jul 19 #2

K & R for Jess Piper. She's great. Substack link here: chia Jul 19 #3

I remember people bemoaning Greece as austerity Farmer-Rick Jul 19 #4

I've been saying this about our paying taxes for months kkmarie Jul 19 #6

My guess is military or building structures and roads near the Nazi's new commercial "endeavors". efhmc Jul 19 #8

Pete Hegseth's makeup studio and Kristi Noem's cosplaying yliza Jul 19 #10

To service the debt intrepidity Sunday #14

iCE for deporting hard working law-abiding immigrants MadameButterfly Sunday #15

Yet megachurches and their multimillion dollar con artists Ruby the Liberal Jul 19 #7

Probably because most of those items... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 19 #9

yeah but if you believe in that, Federal taxes should go down MadameButterfly Sunday #16

Yep. We're just straight-up funding the end of democracy at this point. And little to nothing else. Karasu Jul 19 #11

Pretty much what i enumerated in #15 MadameButterfly Sunday #17

My kids have started asking me this. AllyCat Jul 19 #12

Someone suggested to me that with half the IRS cut MadameButterfly Sunday #18

I've reminded them the cuts at IRS were to help the rich AllyCat Sunday #20

330 million vs. 1 dickhead rickyhall Jul 19 #13

Really unfathomable how we can't overcome MadameButterfly Sunday #19