“When tax inspectors from the Greek government descended on a small seafood restaurant on the island of Hydra, they expected to collect sales receipts and take the owner into custody. Things didn’t quite work out that way. Significantly, this incident received negative coverage in Germany, whose government-aligned banks lent huge sums to the Greek government. Greek citizens are depicted as deadbeats for refusing to pay off the foreign banks that are bailing out their failing welfare state.”
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