It’s because Europeans expect everything from “the government”. The French want to retire with full inflated pensions at the lowest age, have the lowest work-week hours in Europe, get their salaries raised by “the government” even though their productivity is very low, get ”free” inferior medical care, and have the feel good, virtue signaling EU carbon tax. Then suddenly they discover that somebody’s got to pay it, and guess what, they’re the payees. And somehow it doesn’t look that great anymore.
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