In an interview in Ta Nea newspaper, Papaconstantinou also insisted that middle- and low-income earners would pay less tax.
The full article is here. Is that a sign they're not so serious? There was a recent poll:
…most Greeks back Prime Minister George Papandreou's plans to freeze civil servants' wages and cut their bonuses. But the majority of respondents also opposed a hike in the fuel tax and the introduction of new taxes.
Is there a government anywhere that doesn’t spring taxes on the middle- and low-income groups by surprise? Even Singapore didn’t dare to do it – it waited until just after an election – so who does?
Being willing to take on civil servants is already the height of “seriousness” as far as rhetoric can be expected to go, I suspect.
Or is it beware of the taxman bearing gifts. http://www.countrygiftbaskets.info
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