I know a Frenchman who owned five businesses in France. He had to pay his “income” taxes on the first of January of each year based on what the government declared he’d be making. In order to close the businesses he’d have to pay wages and benefits for an additional five years. One Friday he locked them all up and immigrated to America. He HATES the French government. He went from running his own companies to being an employee here but he’d much happier. As to what happened to his companies he said, “I don’t care. If the government wants to run them, then more power to them.”
Talk about immoral government practices. No wonder they have Brussels ruling over them and they are no longer independent, de jure. Worse thing is that the government in Brussels is more immoral in that sense than they themselves are, and are bigger micromanagers and intruders into personal life.
He had to pay his “income” taxes on the first of January of each year based on what the government declared he’d be making. …