Is it "cowboy" taxes we get in Greece -- or just plain catastrophe?

Greece's minister of Labour suddenly decided to impose, what he probably considers, a teeny little one-off tax of  EURO 20/per employee.

Presumably, this one-off, teenie-weenie little tax doesn't really affect employers' financial fate and we all know that employers have money.
Presumably, it is Mr Vroutsis (such is the name of said minister of labour) understanding that most employers only have a 1-2 employees -- as in the bodega down the road or the Periptero up the road. All in all, they will pay 40 euro and be done with it.
Hmmmm!
What about the bank, in-between? How about 2,500 employees, i.e. a sudden tax of EURO 50,000?
Or 2,000 employees at the private employment agency, across from the bank: a teenie tax 40,000 euro.

In the old times and in another country, tiny little taxes similar to this one would be imposed by the people who were there to "protect you".
Said tiny little extraordinary contributions were "implemented" in order to, purportedly, help immigrants' children, or artistic development in the area, or revamp the "protection company's" headquarters...

Whatever the case, these one-off, happy, teenie-weenie taxes were never a suggestion -- they were always compulsory enforced in a variety of methods.

All of the above took place in another country, different times.

Indeed, the people who conceived and enforced those creative, teenie-weenie little taxes were not called "ministers" at all. At the time...