Posted on 01/22/2013 11:47:59 PM PST by Lancey Howard
Suddenly a handshake from David Cameron probably seems an awful lot more inviting. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy could become the next wealthy Frenchman to flee to Britain over his countrys looming tax hikes on the rich. Mr Sarkozy who famously snubbed the Prime Ministers attempt to shake his hand after Mr Cameron vetoed changes to the EU treaty in 2011 is reportedly planning to move to London to set up a £800million investment fund. The 57-year-old, who was ousted from office last June, has amassed a fortune from £150,000-an-hour public speaking engagements and is now said to be trying to raise capital from investors. If the move goes ahead, the controversial Frenchman will become the latest to escape a potential top tax rate of 75 per cent in his home country.
He and his former supermodel third wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would be likely to settle in an affluent district like South Kensington so becoming the most high profile Gallic celebrity couple in the city.
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Sarkozy's plans 'to dodge new 75% French tax rate by moving to London with wife Carla and setting up £1bn private equity fund'
She looked so much better before having her face worked on.
How bad is it in a country for a former President to defect?
An elitist Euro socialist hypocrite who waxes on and on about centrally planned “civil society” and other post-modern Marxist niceities and then grabs the gold and makes a run for the border when his turn to pay up comes.
I guess retreat might just be a sound strategy in this case. So does this prove the stereotype, or does it just make him look smarter?
How bad is it in a country for a former President to defect?
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UH, Clinton(s) Ark to NY.....
And the pols that live in suburban DC and go back ‘home’ for campaigning etc....
England isn’t exactly a tax haven so for Sarkozy to be fleeing their for refuge demonstrates just how bad things are in France. What ever happened to Europe’s favourite tax haven, Monaco?
Well at least she(Carla)once had some good friends there; if you know what I mean! (hehehehe...)
Well at least she(Carla)once had some good friends there; if you know what I mean! (hehehehe...)
Oops, sorry for the double-post, folks!
Well, that depends. I'd love to see Carter, Clinton, etc., defect, and officially walk the walk of their treasonous talk and actions.
I'm going back about a decade or so, but the UK did have tax laws favorable to foreigners. A number of high earners in France took advantage of it.
If I were a high earning Brit, I would have been upset that the lack of equal protection...
Is there a less graceful woman in the public eye than our FLOTUS?
Maybe Sarkozy could meet up with Berlusconi and Cameron at a fashionable estate and have bunga-bunga parties.
Enh. Climate too frigid. I’d go to Italy if I were him.
The rats are now leaving the ships they built.
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