Think that maybe part of their tax receipts problems?

I did not know that! </johnny-carson>

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/billionaire-greek-shippers-surface-on-tax-exempt-overseas-profit

As social pressures mount, the privileged tax status of the shipping industry has come under increasing scrutiny as successive Greek governments look to boost revenue. The industry pays no tax on international earnings brought into the country under rules incorporated in Greece’s constitution in 1967.

Instead of demanding that the Greek people scrape by under austerity?

are shipped on those tax-exempt Greek ships, maybe?

In favor of austerity?

themselves somewhere else.

They can get the debt paid lickety-split if they tax the shipping bigwigs instead of the people who have nothing.