Huge is what the mass media call the so-called ‘black hole’ of the cashtills of the state as well as the sum of the state budget, that is, the great deficit that despite the very heavy, to the point of cruelty and inhumanity, taxation of all the social classes from the middle class and downwards which increases instead of being decreased.
Any person who knows simple addition and subtraction is aware that when we have an empty bucket and we continually, with increasing rate, pour in sand, it will fill at some point. How fast it fills depends on several matters, but what certainly does not ever occur is for the empty bucket to empty twice as fast than the (already increasing) rate with which we pour in sand.
This means, if it happens to a bucket, that somewhere there’s a hole or many holes which empty the bucket much faster than we can fill it.
If we transfer this example to the state and compare the state cashtill with the bucket we cannot compare the different provident societies, pension-giving organizations, oil prices and similar recipients of state funds as holes in the bucket because they are not holes, but smaller buckets which fill in their own right. These little buckets fill up not only from the great state bucket but also from the fees, subscriptions, special taxes imposed on the People so that the People will be the one filling the little buckets and not the state. The state’s bucket doesn’t fill from the little ones but from the pure taxation of the state which is indirect (e.g. VAT and tolls) and direct (income tax, commuting/ circulation taxes, inheritance/ real estate taxes, etc), without calculating other income sources from international organizations and other specific enterprise/ business schemes.
We therefore see that in all the little buckets sand is poured in and separately other sand is poured in the big state bucket. Even in the case where the little bucket must also give sand, most of the sand it needs to give has already been poured in from the People’s taxation for it, to a level that does not justify such abject impoverishment of the provident societies while the taxes they require continue to be paid and augment.
So, we come to the holes. The holes differ from little buckets because they do not have a bottom and therefore will not ever be saturated or closed up because the more of sand that passes (i.e. money) the wider the diameter of the hole becomes. In the state metaphor/ comparison of the bucket with holes, we will tag as ‘holes’ not some nameless financial crisis but very specific individuals existing and enjoying benefits from organizations especially designed, as we can ascertain in several issues of the State Gazette, to siphon huge amounts from the state income without in essence answering for what they do with them because even if they are found liable, their debts, embezzlements and shortcomings are waived by the state. Also they gain anything anyone can imagine, beginning from tax exemptions for ship owners, tycoons, chiefs, presidents of cultural and athletic societies/ associations/ events, special financial motives for investments in companies that only private parties are benefited from, but the state bears all responsibility (e.g. Public Power Corporation, Football and Basketball Companies, cultural/ political/ personal institutions, like e.g. Mitsotakis / Papandreou/ Karamanlis/ Merkouri Institution, etc), special financial privileges and measures for construction companies, special measures and almost full tax exemption for shipping/ ship owner companies as well as generous state fundings which are not supervised to ensure proper allocation, special commissions to publishing houses of extravagantly expensive print orders of leaflets/ documents and books (instead of creating state job openings for all of these professions) even though the state has printing presses and facilities, full shouldering of the financial weight of the great expense for the building of hospitals, sports fields and other buildings which are privately owned by extremely rich people who have full control and exploitation rights to these buildings without commitment to the state. The state does not instead invest these funds to staff the state hospitals in which Greek Citizens die due to insufficient staffing, while qualified doctors are facing unemployment and are fully dependent to the level of being held hostage at university hospitals for a chance to have an opportunity to exercise their profession/ calling that they worked so much to study for and complete.
That is, the ‘black hole’ of which we have only just explored a part is created unconstitutionally and against human rights by the state organizations themselves through abusive and unconstitutional laws created by the specific individuals of different political families that climb periodically to state positions as well as a barrage of minister’s orders and actions without legality through which they distribute thousands, hundreds, millions and billions of euro to different recipients who are the very same ones taking part in and organizing the different ‘philanthropic/ cultural/ athletic’ organizations / galas/ parties/ fund-raisers aimed to gather from the People, that they have already dried financially, money ostensibly for other Citizens who already are entitled to full state coverage and reimbursement without having to beg for money from their fellow-Citizens.
All that which we just presented are provable and substantiated with reports from the ‘origin of fortune’ reports of the politicians and their families, from their curriculum vitae reports as well as state documents such as State Gazette Issues and legislation as well as a full report of the biographies of the so called ‘high profile’ personalities and benefactors.
Due to space limitations we will mention in the next news article just a single example which is also current to illustrate the above, and the rest of the examples will very soon be listed in the areas to be informed on.