Public benefits such as this -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148451/A-island-pretending-blind-benefits-8-500-pensioners-faked-aged-100-lawyers-cla

Public benefits such as this -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148451/A-island-pretending-blind-benefits-8-500-pensioners-faked-aged-100-lawyers-claim-earn-just-12-000-New-book-reveals-Greeks-cheated-ruin.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148451/A-island-pre... Plus greeks cannot collect taxes. Tax collectors are threatened ("break their legs") http://www.businessinsider.com/greeces-former-tax-collection-chief-harry-theoharis-explains-tax-evasion-problem-2015-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/greeces-former-tax-collection... Ukraine doesn't have a social system that approximates Northern Europe level percentage and they collect taxes. The debt that Germany owed was imposed by the Victors of WWI and WWII, it wasn't that Germany bankrupted itself into ruin by spending more and not collecting taxes. Pretty hilarious to see people compare Greek situation to Germany after world wars.