Today we have been informed here in Greece of the IMF’s new proposals for the taxation system. And everybody knows that every IMF ‘proposal’ is the next brutal imposition. Now, you may think, with the mess and extortion nature of the current Greek taxation ‘system’ (including cutting off your electricity supply if you fail to cough up in full) the IMF would be coming up with some sensible ideas.
But oh no. None of it. No, all these brilliant economic minds have come up with the following. Increase VAT on all basic necessities, such as heating fuel, electricity, food and that silly kind of thing. Oh, and while we are at it, increase the EXTRA consumption taxes on most of these, but basically on heating fuels. Anyway, slam even greater taxes on our already high indirect taxation, mainly on basic necessities, at a time of galloping unemployment and wages and incomes caught in a frantic race to the bottom. Or rather, oblivion.
Brilliant! After Keynseianism is being effectively outlawed by fiat of The Frau, the IMF has decided it can’t be outdone. So it has come up with this brilliant idea!
But I have an even better one! Why not just napalm bomb the whole of Greece and put an end to all these problems once and for all? It would put us out of our misery. Ah! But how would the creditors get their money back that way? Well, ‘this’ way, that of the IMF and the troika, they’ll never get their money back either. At least total annihilation by napalm* bombing would be a far more humane way of going about it!
*I specifically suggest napalm bombing because there would be a sort of poetic cycle in it. Napalm bombing was first used on Greece during the Greek Civil war. Another first for this hapless war weary country.