Greece to Seize Money From Suspected Tax Evaders' Accounts

JulieW · Apr 30, 2012

2weeke said:

Jonesy said:

2weeke said:

Actually, I have a hunch that's bordering on the conspiracy, I think both the main parties were going to try to force the carbon tax on us which is why Abbott is trying to get the populist vote by verbally attacking it but isn't promising to any action close to repealing it.
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Abbott has stated categorically on several occasions including about 2 weeks ago that he will repeal the carbon tax if he achieves government. He said that he would not simply dilute it, that it would be gone. When asked about the loss yo government revenue due to the lifting by Gillard of the tax free threshold he said that he believed that Australians would agree that reducing one tax by introducing another new one was counterproductive, i.e.: that he thought that Australians would accept the resumption of the original TFF in order to get rid of the carbon tax.
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Do you mean something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckcH0Wrmy74 . He's still going to make us pay for carbon sir, he's just going to call it something else. Notice how he doesn't say anything about how much this tax will be. Since all these mining companies and these manufacturing industries are lobbying him, I wouldn't be surprised if they got exempt from the tax and he'll just put all the burden on us instead.
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How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
Goldman Sachs owns the world and they want a carbon trading platform to replace their wonky derivatives house of cards when that all collapses.

Filth.

Guest · Apr 30, 2012

goldpelican said:

EVEN by the extravagant standards of Greek corruption, the scam uncovered by Stelios Bozikis is so brazen it is hard to credit.

Nearly 600 people on the Ionian island of Zakynthos - where Mr Bozikis was recently elected mayor - had themselves falsely declared blind to obtain state benefits.

They included taxi drivers, shopkeepers and restaurant owners. ''Out of 650 registered blind people on the island, we estimate that at least 600 are fraudulent claims,'' the mayor said. That represents nearly 2 per cent of the island's population of 35,000 - nearly 10 times the average rate of blindness in Europe.
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The claimants were receiving monthly payments of at least 350 ($A442). Those who supposedly needed carers received more.

The mayor, a member of the socialist PASOK party, has suspended all benefit payments until it can be independently established who needs a white cane.

The move was met with strong opposition, culminating in a recent council meeting that was stormed by about 50 claimants, who threw eggs and pots of yoghurt at the mayor. ''I consider it a badge of honour,'' said Mr Bozikis.

Known to the Venetians during the heyday of their trading empire as ''the flower of the Levant'', Zakynthos is now mocked as ''the island of the blind'' by the media.

Fraudulent benefit claims, including bogus cases of leprosy, cost Greece 111 million last year, according to the government. Nearly one in six disability allowances were found to be fraudulent.

Mr Bozikis alleged the head ophthalmologist at the local hospital, Nikolaos Vartzelis, falsely diagnosed people as blind in exchange for money.

The claims were allegedly signed off by Dionysios Gasparos, who was governor of the island, in exchange for votes. Both men denied the allegations.

Dr Vartzelis, who stepped down from his post last month, said he had been ''lenient but within the limits of the law'' towards people who ''didn't have bread to eat''.

He accused the mayor of ''political games'' to undermine Mr Gasparos, of the conservative New Democracy party.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/gree...nd-revealed-20120429-1xsxj.html#ixzz1tWNlzfBd
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Blind taxi drivers
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That's pretty shameful, false benefit claims costing Greece 111 million.

What's more shameful was Goldman Sachs taking $300,000,000 in fees to cook the books to get Greece into the Euro.

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