how me a frog posted:

There is difference between writing off your security deposit because your roomate is a slob, and agreeing to pay his rent indefinitely because you're scared the landlord will find out said roomate has been running a jenkem ring from his room given the fact that he won't even agree to stop doing that poo poo because he considers your demand terrorism.

how me a frog posted:

Lol if you think this is a possible scenario.

NihilismNow posted:

10% is nothing. QE made the euro drop by 30%+ already so another 10% to be rid of the Greeks forever is well worth it.
Besides most of what i consume are products from inside the EU anyway and won't get any more expensive.

etalian posted:

Maybe Greece could leave and join Putin's slav EU knockoff?

so loving future posted:

Omelette du Fromage posted:

Have you ever done taxes yourself? You know all those things like mortgage interest, having kids, student loan interest that you deduct from your salary before calculating what you owe? That's you reporting less than you make holy gently caress

Jonad posted:

That's pretty disingenuous considering Picketty and everybody else knows the Germans will never actually see any of those 'profits' nor any of the money they loaned the Greeks.

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Of course, it’s not reasonable to expect creditors to immediately forgive all Greece’s debts. Nor is it reasonable to expect Greeks to stand by while a disastrous economic policy is dictated to them. But the most unreasonable thing of all would be expecting to see the debt repaid in full.

Bishop posted:

I like how greece's finance minister resigned as soon as the "no" vote he championed passed. Lol thanks for sticking it to the capitalist oppressors: I'm gonna go hide now while someone else figures out what to do

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Mr. Varoufakis said in a statement on his website that he was stepping down because Greece’s creditors had made it clear that they did not want to negotiate any further with him.

“Soon after the announcement of the referendum results, I was made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners,’ for my … ‘absence’ from its meetings; an idea that the prime minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement,” he said. “For this reason, I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today.”

Klyith posted:

Imagine here a picture of a big mansion with huge acreage of private land in a desirable area. Off in one corner there are a couple cows. That's a real thing that extremely rich people do in the USA so they can declare themselves a farm and pay vastly lower agricultural land taxes. Taxes are broken everywhere, greece is not all that unique in having bad tax dodges they need to fix.

I can't show you a picture though because extremely rich people don't let anyone take pictures of their poo poo.

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For all those feeling the pinch this Tax Day, rest assured America’s wealthiest one percent have no idea what you’re going through. Not only have they shaved a projected collective $121 billion off their income taxes thanks to Bush’s tax cuts for the rich but, thanks to misuse of agricultural tax breaks, many will not end up paying their fair share of property taxes either.

Take Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers and the second-richest Texan, who qualified for an agricultural property tax break on his sprawling 1,757-acre residential ranch in suburban Austin and saved over $1 million simply because his family and friends sometimes use the land as a private hunting preserve to shoot deer. Or take billionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who got more than a 90 percent property tax reduction on hundreds of acres of his multimillion-dollar estate in upscale Bedminister, New Jersey, just by putting a couple of cows out to pasture. They are not alone. All across the country, a huge number of America’s wealthiest are tapping into agricultural tax breaks—and none of them have to do any real farming to qualify.

Not only are agricultural tax breaks allowing wealthy landowners to shift their tax burden onto other less-affluent taxpayers but they are also helping bankrupt public schools, which derive the bulk of their funding from local property taxes.

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

Because the Super rich manage to avoid paying taxes, let's have one third of the tax base not pay their taxes as well

Slipknot Hoagie posted:

Maybe farms shouldnt get a lower tax rate. Maybe all human beings should live on subsistence agriculture and subsidizing farmers to feed an unsustainable amount of people liiving crammed in cities is wrong and bad. Maybe apples should be $100 each. Ever think of that?

ElGroucho posted:

Can someone explain the reasoning behind all these countries becoming butt-buddies, tia

how me a frog posted:

Lol you think these evil capitalist can do whatever they want because they are greedy goblins who control the world but they can't kick Greece out because "there isn't a mechanism". loving lol.