Taxpayers' sweetener

The 1,000 lucky taxpayers who were picked by lottery to receive 1,000 euros each for using plastic money in their transactions are certainly luckier than those receiving the so-called social dividend, a stipend arising from a part of the primary surplus intended for the poorest part of Greek society. The latter may be much greater in number than the former, but the lottery winners will be getting more money.

Then there's the "super lottery" that has been promised some time in December, with "thousands of beneficiaries."

Let's leave aside the fact that the lottery concerns 4,556,328 taxpayers who don't need to submit any kind of application or document justifying why they could use the money, as was the case with applicants for the social dividend. All the former needed to do to qualify to stand a chance of winning 1,000 euros was to have used their debit or credit cards...