In one Greek town the per capita ownership of Porsche was so high that they won some kind of honorary award from Porsche and representative came out for a meet and greet with the Mayor.
Go to Athens, Greece for a one-week vacation, and take the bus tour of the harbor. Once you stand there and gaze at over a minimum of 200 one-million-dollar or more yachts, and then you count at least two-thousand high-end sports cars around the harbor area of Athens...you come to ask if there is not a taxation problem.
Then you go back 2,500 years and discover that taxation avoidance started all the way back to that point. No guy who owns a hotel or high-end restaurant or franchise grocery operation....admits to any legit profits. Everything is hidden and done on the side. I won’t say this is the entire problem, but probably thirty-percent of the big issue of debt in Greece.
In a different (I hope?) town, many of the adults were legally blind!
This required not just a physician’s statement but also the village officials certification.
It turns out, they received an additional allowance for being blind.
Among those who put in for the blindness benefit on Zakynthos, a local official said, were a taxi driver and a bird hunter...
...Only 190 of the nearly 700 people it says had been collecting the blindness benefit on Zakynthos participated in the registration, the ministry said...
...Recognizing some names, he said he knew something was amiss when he saw a taxi driver and a bird hunter. “You can tell if someone is blind,” ...
‘Island of the Blind’ Riles a Greek Public Facing Cutbacks
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203370604577263863362854348