Who are Greeks not liars too?
The Greeks even lie to themselves.
Tax evasion is Greece is systemic and epidemic.
You see Greeks want, want, want, but they do not want to pay their taxes.
They want high salaries, medical, early retirement, large pensions, and the like, but they don't want to work or pay for it.
The Greek shadow economy, which is made up of unreported income, was 25.1% of gross domestic product in 2007, according to Friedrich Schneider, a professor at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. That's compared with just 7.2% for the U.S., he said.
Greece has only had a democracy since the 70's so the Greeks bascially don't that services provided by a democracy must be paid for or the services end.
It seems Greeks are a little slow on basic concepts like this.
Media reports are rife with accounts of corruption among tax officials. Ethnos, a newspaper, reported in mid-December that a 51-year-old Athens tax official had been arrested on suspicion of taking €1,000 from a pet-shop owner in exchange for not imposing a €3,000 penalty on the pet shop.
A government survey of 150 doctors in Kolonaki, an upmarket Athens neighborhood, half of the doctors said they were paid less than €30,000 a year. Thirty said they made less than €10,000. Yet these same liars maintain large houses, luxury automobiles, and send their kids to private school.
Then of course the Greeks always make excuses and blame someone else.
The Greek debt crisis has revealed a disturbing picture of the character of the Greek people and it isn't pretty.
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