The ball has been lost in the party of Alexis Tsipras<\/b>\u2019s party, with his officials “taxing” wealth in a way that\u2019s quite picturesque.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there, in EL.A.S. be attempting to create so-called class-based dilemmas along the old lines of \u201ceither us or them,\u201d <\/b>but in the end, everything they say about wealth and related issues becomes mere rhetoric. After all, they lack the know-how of the officials their president wants to leave\u2026 behind.<\/b><\/p>\n
One of them comes out and says that 1,500 tax identification numbers will be taxed to collect 4.5 billion euros\u2014presumably on an annual basis\u2014and give it to\u2026 the people. Another one comes out and says the revenue will be 600 million euros, but again, it will be given to the people. Then another one comes along to tax yachts, homes, and cars.<\/p>\n
And finally, one of Alexis Tsipras\u2019s representatives\u2014with his personal seal of approval\u2013\u2014comes to tax ultra-luxury properties and apartments, as well as those who rent apartments in luxury hotels and the yachts \u201cthat go very fast.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
And if the (new) president\u2019s (new) partners\u2019 yachts don\u2019t go fast, what happens? Won\u2019t they be taxed as wealth? And how will they be taxed? If they\u2019re registered\u2014as most are\u2014with foreign companies? If they fly the flag of another country\u2014as they do\u2014what exactly will happen? How will this wealth be taxed? How will the new\u2026 revolution take place?<\/p>\n
It is clear that Alexis Tsipras is seeking to project the image of a leftist who (once again) wants to change the country, Europe, and the whole world<\/b> \u2014even though that didn\u2019t turn out well for the country last time\u2014and that he aims to bring class-based proposals back to the forefront.<\/p>\n
This time, however, the\u2026 \u201cpostmen\u201d are not like the old ones who used to spend day and night in tsipouro bars analyzing the global situation\u2014and, of course, always offering \u201csolutions\u201d\u2014 and shaping an ideological stance before leaving their gathering places to return home. <\/p>\n
The (new) comrades of the (new) president find themselves in a different\u2026 sphere, where the logic of the\u2026 revolutionary is defined in their minds by their great leader\u2019s marches through the streets of Genoa<\/b>\u2014and perhaps for this very reason the battle against wealth becomes, to say the least, picturesque.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Things have gotten out of hand in Alexis Tsipras\u2019s party, with its officials \u201ctaxing\u201d wealth in a way that\u2019s becoming quite a spectacle.
\nMaybe over there at the Hellenic Police…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}