Or a dog who doesn't understand why the vet tortures him!
I think the accusation of ignorance is kinder than the alternative ("let's not pay our taxes, the germans will pay for us").
With all the corruption going around I would not blame them. (even without it I would not blame them regardless. There are many people all over the world -including me- who consider taxes thievery)
Anyway, please do correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it only the rich/rich companies that did that? Similarly to how Amazon, Google, or Apple for example pay almost no tax.
> who thought it was a good idea to adopt a foreign currency when it didn't make sense economically
Do you have a citation for this? As far as I know the Greek population was not asked about it.
What do you mean the population wasn't asked? It's a democracy. The population elects polititians that vote laws and make decisions. Like in almost every country and for almost every topic. If the greeks didn't care about what their polititians did, good for them. But they aren't children. They are a sovereign democracy. They own the consequences.
Yes? Cash is the standard method of payment, what is the issue exactly? Regardless of that, employees (who are the majority of the workforce in pretty much every country) can't tax-evade.
> What do you mean the population wasn't asked?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385367
And at the end of the day, even if there was true democracy it would still not make sense to blame all the population for the choice of the majority. In the same way that you can't blame every American for the killer drones, or every German for the election of the NSDAP.