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France's Macron proposes taxing Americans to pay for his country's green schemes
American Thinker ^ | 29 Jun, 2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/29/2023 10:50:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The little euroweasel who tells us BRICs are the wave of the future, suddenly remembers who's got the money.

Over in Sweden, they're scrapping their green schemes because these programs are costly, based on junk science, and do nothing.

But France is another story. President Macron has decided he'd like to get Americans to pay for his country's green schemes -- by taxing them.

According to WattsUpWithThat, he's got global green taxes in mind, which the ex-financier knows very well will be paid in tghe main by Americans.

In the wake of the Aussie, New Zealand and Canadian climate ministers demanding a new Bretton Woods, the French President has also requested a slice of the action.

Macron calls for an international taxation deal to finance climate efforts

The French president wants an international effort to raise money to tackle climate change.

BY CLEA CAULCUTT, GIORGIO LEALI AND PAUL DE VILLEPIN JUNE 23, 2023 12:37 PM CET PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hinted at a fresh push to revamp the international taxation system to finance climate efforts.

“I’m in favor of an international taxation to finance efforts that we have to make to fight poverty and in terms of climate [action]…It doesn’t work when you do it alone, the [financial] flows go elsewhere.” Macron said during a press conference at the end of the two-day summit in Paris, dismissing the idea that France could introduce a climate tax on its own.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: greenenergy
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1 posted on 06/29/2023 10:50:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I would rather drop nukes on them and say “How is this for global warming in France?”


2 posted on 06/29/2023 10:51:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Next time the Germans invade, just ignore it.


3 posted on 06/29/2023 11:00:31 AM PDT by Afterguard
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe we need to contact adult protective services and report a vulnerable adult is in the White House who’s being taken advantage of.


4 posted on 06/29/2023 11:01:59 AM PDT by Spok (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”)
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To: Spok
Maybe we need to contact adult protective services and report a vulnerable adult is in the White House who’s being taken advantage of.

Nurse Rachet will put DOCTOR Jill on the phone to tell you Biden is doing just fine, as she turns up the O2 in his mask.

5 posted on 06/29/2023 11:05:20 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

Just try to collect global taxes from me and see what happens.


6 posted on 06/29/2023 11:08:32 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: MtnClimber

Remember the last time someone an ocean away tried to Tax Americans without representation?


7 posted on 06/29/2023 11:15:03 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: MtnClimber

This will work——

Rename France France FrancoUkraine and plead for billions of dollars in case Putin invades.


8 posted on 06/29/2023 11:26:36 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Just as soon as France pays its reparations to this country for the hundreds-of-thousands of American casualties suffered to free France from the Germans...

IAC, the American taxpayer should not pay any tax to a moslem nation, for any reason...


9 posted on 06/29/2023 11:32:50 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Afterguard
Next time the Germans invade, just ignore it.

Germany is invading France and the rest of Europe now by proxy -- using "Asians". Hitler would be so proud.

10 posted on 06/29/2023 11:41:01 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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“Just as soon as France pays its reparations to this country for the hundreds-of-thousands of American casualties suffered to free France from the Germans...”

Be sure to subtract the thousands of French casualties suffered to free America from the Brits...


11 posted on 06/29/2023 11:45:12 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: MtnClimber
Bring it back.

File:Guillotine PM.gif - Tar Valon Library

12 posted on 06/29/2023 11:53:05 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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To: MtnClimber

Go micturate up a rope, Emmanuel.


13 posted on 06/29/2023 12:06:07 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Which “thousands of French casualties” ?

(even if were so, paid many times over exponentially)


14 posted on 06/29/2023 12:28:24 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
"Be sure to subtract the thousands of French casualties suffered to free America from the Brits..."

989 French killed in our revolution is a flea on an elephant's balls compared to our losses in WWII-France...

The Army Extracts section of the SF booklet lists the 989 French soldiers who were reported as dying in U.S. theater of operations during the American Revolution (the 990 circled below is in error). About 25% of these died during in the 1778-79 operations (under D'Estaing) and about 75% died during the 1780-83 operations (under Rochambeau).

IAC, the French were here to get revenge for their prior loss to the English in the Seven Yeats War...

15 posted on 06/29/2023 12:44:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: MtnClimber

87,000 brand spankin’ new, very well armed IRS agents have a goal.


16 posted on 06/29/2023 1:34:08 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: SuperLuminal; A strike

“989 French killed in our revolution is a flea on an elephant’s balls compared to our losses in WWII-France...”

You guys are missing the point. Without French support we very likely would not have won our independence from the Brits. Maybe you don’t think that was worthy of some gratitude.


17 posted on 06/29/2023 2:10:32 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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I don’t think worth you making a stupid point about it.


18 posted on 06/29/2023 2:38:37 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: MtnClimber

That’s already gone on for decades with our subsidy of the UN, indirectly through NATO, etc., etc.


19 posted on 06/29/2023 2:41:23 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: A strike

“I don’t think worth you making a stupid point about it.”

Well someone had to point out how stupid your comment was.


20 posted on 06/29/2023 4:22:37 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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