Posted on 10/24/2013 6:02:48 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored four goals, including a rocket volley that clocked in at 93mph, yesterday as his team, Paris St. Germain, triumphed over Anderlecht and put one foot in the next round of the Champion’s League. But “the Zlatan,” as he is sometimes called, and his team have a serious problem: François Hollande.
“Clubs in France’s top two divisions have called a strike at the end of next month in protest against the government’s plan to introduce a 75 percent tax rate for players,” ESPN reports. Nearly half of the projected revenue from the tax would come from PSG’s players. Hollande’s critics say the tax will do irreparable damage to French soccer by preventing some teams from attracting top players.
France’s soccer clubs are the latest source of opposition to Hollande and his taxes. The renowned actor Gerard Depardieu already left the country (for Russia) and renounced his French citizenship in protest. “More than 70 per cent of the French feel taxes are ‘excessive’, and 80 per cent believe the president’s economic policy is ‘misguided’ and ‘inefficient’,” reports Britain’s Telegraph. “The government thinks France’s entrepreneurs are pigeons,” the founders of an anti-tax group wrote on Facebook, using the French slang word for “suckers.” “Anti-economic policies are crushing the entrepreneurial spirit and exposing France to a big risk.”
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More Hollande daze sauce for the French pigeons.
Qui est John Galt ?
“The government thinks France’s entrepreneurs are pigeons,” the founders of an anti-tax group wrote on Facebook, using the French slang word for “suckers.” “Anti-economic policies are crushing the entrepreneurial spirit and exposing France to a big risk.”
harry reid doesn’t understand such things.
Of course, for them to place a ball that well is mostly accidental ....
Yeah, right.
Sino John Galt?
One of the reasons we appreciate big league sports so much is that we grew up playing the games ourselves, and have from time to time stepped up and made the play.
His first name means "golden."
Hey! Let's do that to the NFL. Jerry Jones could move the team to the Phillipines and rename it the Manila Folders.
I’d be happy to outsource all of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL offshore.
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