How many cars do they have to burn to get taxes down to zero?
One of the deepest articles I’ve ever read.
Great reporting.
It probably won’t fly, Macabre Macron basically said he wants France gone. That is what his anti nationalism position says. Means he believes France needs to die.
The little dictator is hiding behind a fortified bunker while Paris burns.
I predict his speech will not change the attitude of French citizens.
In fact, his goose is cooked.
Les sans culottes are back!
Found on Reddit... The REAL reason the French are protesting...
https://np.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/a4csni/what_are_you_gonna_do_shoot_me/ebdj8e9/
When it comes down to it, a good politician has to be a people person. They have to be out ‘kissing the babies’. The man has no children, he comes across as elitist, effete and out of touch. To translate it into American politics, could you see Emmanual Macron out in an Iowa fair eating a fried oreo? Or be like Joe Biden in that diner with the biker chick sitting on his lap? Whatever you think of Biden, you have to give it to him, he’s a people person!
I think this speech is a huge gamble by Macron. He’s not Bill Clinton and able to get on TV and say he feels your pain and get away with it. People won’t buy it. A real politician would not have been hiding this past week behind armed guards. He would have been out meeting and talking with people and shown to be doing something. If the riots continue after his apology speech, he may have to resign.
He’s Pain grillé.
To meet the $49 per gallon tax hike recommended by the U.N., fuel taxes in France would have to go up 17-fold.
As the note in Reddit stated, for 20 years they've been exhorted to go diesel by the same government that has now decided to make that prohibitively expensive. If you happen to live in a city and can get everything you need by bicycle, it's somebody else's problem, at least until your grocery stores' shelves start to empty as they have in Venezuela. At that point the damage is done. It isn't simply a matter of farmers raising the price on grain to cover the expense, it's a matter of them not being able to grow any.
The same is true of immigration. Even a brief glimpse reveals that those newcomers aren't farmers, plumbers, electrical linemen, or anyone who might actually supplement or supplant the working classes. They're mouths to be fed. They aren't net contributors to social services, they're net consumers, and the people who will have to feed them are being choked out of their ability to do so.
So this isn't about a 25 cent a gallon tax hike any more than the American War of Independence was about tea. It's about a mania for transforming society that has gone too far and has entrenched itself in the highest seats of power. Macron is only one of many.