 quit whining it s only half your money glad this would never happen here  athens greece ap mdash greeks earning more than euro 42000 55000 per year will now be taxed at a new top rate of 42 percent under a major new tax reform bill submitted to the country s parliament late thursday the new tax rates part of the austerity measures demanded by the country s international rescue lenders were submitted to parliament hours after the finance ministers from the 17 european union countries that use the euro agreed in brussels to restart rescue loan payments greece is in line to get euro 491 billion 64 billion between now and march with euro 343 billion of that amount due in the coming days that sounds awful the way a company or country could tell another country how to structure its tax system what kind of country would let itself be owned like that with out of control spending that s terribly obtuse of its leaders to do such a thing today ends a long and difficult period of anxiety for greece samaras told greek reporters in brussels well thank goodness for that now that government theft sorry tax rates have been raised to take almost half of what a middle class earner would make all is well in the aegean the birthplace of democracy  