<story><title>Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popee</author><text>Hi, croat here. Just one detail, this year there will be elections in Croatia and current gov didn&amp;#x27;t do anything useful for our economy, so this is kind of popular measure. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, it&amp;#x27;s always nice to help, but situation is little bit complicated, taxes are very high and in some way this is not fair to people that are paying everything. Also, there are huge number of people living and exploiting social measures, so ... In this context it&amp;#x27;s impossible to help those who really need help.&lt;p&gt;You know what is the saddest part? Opposition party (conservatives that ruled from 2007-2011) is convicted for criminality and they are atm most popular, so for &lt;i&gt;common&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;independent&lt;/i&gt; people there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If someone can solve this chaos he&amp;#x2F;she will be candidate for Nobel&amp;#x27;s price.&lt;p&gt;P.S. Sorry on bad english</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>These exact same words could come out of a Brazilian. Word by word. I don&amp;#x27;t know about Croatia, but in that case they are only half-truths. The idea that there are &amp;#x27;people who pay for everything&amp;#x27; is usually misguided. There are the exploited, and the less exploited. Both pay in one way or another, and only a very small elite group is actually well off.&lt;p&gt;You say &amp;quot;the situation is complicated&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;this is not fair&amp;quot;, but how exactly do you think this measure will fail? From a distance it sounds like it would boost the economy by allowing people to prosper, while debt is written off mostly by private entities, not the tax payers directly. Even if it was, it might still be a win.</text></comment>
<story><title>Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popee</author><text>Hi, croat here. Just one detail, this year there will be elections in Croatia and current gov didn&amp;#x27;t do anything useful for our economy, so this is kind of popular measure. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, it&amp;#x27;s always nice to help, but situation is little bit complicated, taxes are very high and in some way this is not fair to people that are paying everything. Also, there are huge number of people living and exploiting social measures, so ... In this context it&amp;#x27;s impossible to help those who really need help.&lt;p&gt;You know what is the saddest part? Opposition party (conservatives that ruled from 2007-2011) is convicted for criminality and they are atm most popular, so for &lt;i&gt;common&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;independent&lt;/i&gt; people there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If someone can solve this chaos he&amp;#x2F;she will be candidate for Nobel&amp;#x27;s price.&lt;p&gt;P.S. Sorry on bad english</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>Your comment made me realize a more appropriate title would be : 
&amp;quot;Current croatian government cancels poor citizen&amp;#x27;s debts one year before election&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;But that would probably cast a VERY different light on the event. The original intent was probably to give the (positive i guess) impression that the greek trend of not paying debts is spreading.</text></comment>