> Many of the suggested improvements are objectively sound, e.g. property taxes, tax collection in general, normalized VAT, reducing government corruption and red-tape, removing various monopolies, etc.
Those have been proposed by Syriza itself, but that hardly matters because the disagreement is not actually about economic policy, at all.
The salient features of the Eurogroup deal are things like: "give us $50 billion of your airports, bridges, government land, tourist attractions, etc, but at today's Depression-era prices". Shock doctrine stuff.
And: "take far more severe austerity, for the chance to negotiate another bailout you need to pay us back for the previous bailout, without debt relief being on the table, despite your population rejecting this option in the very recent past, despite the IMF concluding the current debt load is clearly massively unsustainable". Make that sound reasonable, please.
> It's been ~5 years since the first bailout, yet Greece haven't made much progress.
Could it be that the collapse of 25% of Greek GDP under the last 5 years of austerity demonstrates that more austerity isn't the answer? Some economist wise cracked that prescribing austerity for a country in a depression† is like trying to cure a sick patient with regular beatings.
† the worst depression of a modern state since the 1930s, incidentally.
> No wonder Germans get tired bankrolling all of Greece.
Hah, those generous German tax-payers. But wait, aren't they really bailing out German and French banks, at least indirectly, after the ECB gobbled up all that toxic peripheral debt that is was the predictable outcome of wild trade imbalances in an ill-thought-out monetary union? What fraction of Greek bailout money was just recycled into paying back the IMF and ECB? Do you know?
Do you know how loan sharks operate?
Here's an alternate perspective to jar you out of your slumber:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/20/its-time-to-kick-german...