{"id":12302,"date":"2026-06-23T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:34:00","slug":"the-lefts-sheriffs-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12302","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s &#8220;sheriffs&#8221; are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201csheriffs\u201d of the Left are back to take from the middle class what they failed to take during the <b>\u201cfirst time Left.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The views of the officials of the <b>ELAS<\/b> \u2013someone else wants to tax yachts that&#8230; run, another on 50-meter (sic) swimming pools, and yet another on high-displacement cars (the \u201cday laborers\u201d with their luxury electric cars get off scot-free)\u2013 but this is no joke. <\/p>\n<p>In this case, the unbearable lightness of stupidity goes beyond the bounds of mere error, which some will want to attribute to the inexperience of <b>the newly recruited Hellenic Police officers. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The troubled history of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> regarding the relentless taxation imposed on the middle class during his tenure, when the <b>\u201cmoral high ground\u201d <\/b>was cutting pensions and reducing wages while raising tax rates and even imposing taxes on pay-TV subscriptions, supports the view that <b>the \u201csheriffs\u201d of the Left are returning to take from the middle class whatever they failed to take during the \u201cfirst time the Left was in power.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>These public statements, which echo the policy positions of Alexis Tsipras\u2019s party, confirm that <b>this stupidity is not only arrogant but also blatantly provocative.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>They accuse the government of raising taxes\u2014even though dozens of tax cuts and abolitions have been implemented\u2014but their own tax hikes are\u2026 for a good cause. All these <b>\u201cbullshitters,\u201d<\/b> as philosopher H. Frankfurt puts it, don\u2019t give a damn about the truth. They say whatever pops into their heads\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201csheriffs\u201d of the Left are back to take from the middle class whatever they failed to take during the \u201cfirst time the Left was in power.\u201d<br \/>\nThe views of &#8230; are laughable <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","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=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}