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By contrast, Mr. Balcerowicz offers the BELLs: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"\" name=\"U90208399875LK\" style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 10px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E............\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"\" name=\"U90208399875API\" style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 10px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EGreece focused on raising taxes, putting off expenditure cuts. They got it backward, says Mr. Balcerowicz. \"If you reduce through reform current spending, which is too excessive, you are far more likely to be successful with fiscal consolidation than if you increase taxes, which are already too high.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"\" name=\"U90208399875WRC\" style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 10px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EHe adds: \"Somehow the impression for many people is that increasing taxes is correct and reducing spending is incorrect. It is ideologically loaded.\" This applies in Greece, most of Europe and the current debate in the U.S.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323981504578179310418828782.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323981504578179310418828782.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn Potugal we are trying to fix things increasing taxes instead of cutting expenses. It's not working according to plan because tax receipt's went down despite raising marginal tax rates.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EA friend from Brazil thinks the Goverment has to try something he knows it's incorrect to show the people it doesn't work. After that people will accept cut's in Goverment expenditures.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/thoughtmeme.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2893396396052279143\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thoughtmeme.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/pain-in-better-faster-than.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1255205710242367002\/posts\/default\/2893396396052279143"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1255205710242367002\/posts\/default\/2893396396052279143"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thoughtmeme.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/pain-in-better-faster-than.html","title":"Pain in better faster than...."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}});