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2010-05-09 Economy

IMF Tells Greece To Privatize Health Care

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 er, that story's dated Apr 30, moose. Talks about the "euro rising to $1.33"....

The day the Greek government announces it's privatizing health care is the day it falls, and (still more) Greeks are killed by the mob in the streets.

Posted by lex 2010-05-09 01:50|| 2010-05-09 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 also upping their VAT

Posted by lord garth 2010-05-09 05:10|| 2010-05-09 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 VAT is the worst tax economically.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-05-09 06:44|| 2010-05-09 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 the VAT makes sure sand gets into ALL the gears, not just the exposed ones. Its evil.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-09 11:26|| 2010-05-09 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 You really need to spend some time with the locals in Germany and France to get a feel for what the VAT brings to the economy and standard of living. If we take on a VAT, it WILL be a very, very oppressive move.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-09 11:32|| 2010-05-09 11:32|| Front Page Top

#6 There is a way out-- and it's really the only feasible way-- but it entails some very dramatic, large movements of people across the borders:

OUT: at least a few million of our imported underclass, whose drag on the economies of the southwestern US states is almost enough to balance the budget of California. Savings = $30-50B annually.

OUT: hundreds of thousands of US retirees each year, to other countries that have severely lower costs of living + adequate local medical care (Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, eastern Europe etc). Medicare savings = $30-50B annually.

IN: hundreds of thousands of immigrant technologists and PhDs in hard sciences a la Bechtolsheim, Grove, Khosla et al who can generate real economic wealth and incremental tax revenues, esp in the area of energy technology. Incremental tax revenues = $30-50B annually.

Posted by lex 2010-05-09 11:43|| 2010-05-09 11:43|| Front Page Top

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