Over-taxation

The government has put taxpayers in an economic pincer which has created mounting debts to the tax bureau and to insurance funds.

Creditors also bear responsibility as they turned a blind eye to the debt problem and believed that austerity could remedy the ills of a country with the peculiarities of Greece.

'An economic policy grounded on over-taxation has an expiration date and an economic development model based exclusively on consumption and imports is by its very nature skewed.'

The aim of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government is clear. It wants to win over as many social groups and strata as possible so as to avert an electoral trouncing.

.Social policy in practice does not require grand rhetoric, but rather systematic efforts to find the funds to relieve the have-nots.