” Spain’s government is about to launch a strategy aimed at cutting black market employment, “
That means Secret Police, ‘denounce your neighbor’, good ol’ fashioned totalitarianism....
The Obama Administration will have observers on the scene, taking notes, to see how to do it here....
Don’t blame the people of Spain for wanting to keep the fruits of thier labor.
Bwaahahhahahahaha ..... They (the smarts) don’t learn well (from history), do they?
They think citizens are just going to quietly fall in line with their grand socialist scheme, and too dumb to figure out ways to ‘gin the system’. “If you can’t beat them, join them.” but they forgot there’s always another way out.
>>> The plan … aims to incentivize people to come clean about their private wages, and stop people from getting full unemployment benefits while they are working privately. <<<
Yes, I am dying to know the plan. How are you going to STOP people?
Vamanos Galt.
The point that many people, both within and without government, miss is highlighted by this story.
If taxes get too high, people start finding ways to get around paying them.
Hence, there is a physical limit as to how much a government can successfully collect in taxes from it’s population as a percent of GDP.
The myth that is pushed on everyone else by those who favor tax increases at this point in the U.S. is that they will produce significantly more revenue that the Treasury is already collecting. The myth merely sounds good to people who don’t want to admit the myth is a myth or who don’t understand, or who are just too mentally lazy too think it through.
The underlying problem in the U.S. is simply the control that government (Federal, State and municipal) has usurped from the people which continue to increase personal costs and close off personal opportunity to profit from personal effort. Every year, there are more EEOC, more EPA, more HUD, more of everything in government compliance requirements - just to open the doors of a business and keep the lights on. Big business simply passes those costs through to consumers, while small business gets choked off by them.
Politicians tackling the grey economy?
The grey economy is needed to generate what it is known in Spain as “black money”, that is, cash not declared to the authorities, in order, among other things, to bribe politicians.