Tax code equality
Economic crises are usually associated with decelerating economic activity, rising unemployment, falling wages, and shrinking profits. And while some goods become scarcer, the opinions expressed by economists become much more abundant. Recently, some of Bulgaria’s free-market economists, who have acknowledged Greece’s widespread clientelism and cronyism, commented on social media that the Tsipras government must curb tax evasion and increase public revenue. In other words, these economists would like the corrupted Greek politicians to squander more of the wealth produced by the nation’s shrinking productive class. The dissonance can be explained with these economists’ blind adherence to the ‘rule of law’, which they see as the foundation of the liberal order and often choose to interpret it to mean ‘equality before the tax code’.