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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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To: MtnClimber
"Macron has decided he'd like to get Americans to pay for his country's green schemes -- by taxing them."

Well hecky-darn, France is a little slow on the draw.. The Ukraine has been running this scam for quite a while now....

21 posted on 06/29/2023 4:30:52 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

making a stupid point,
and proud of it .


22 posted on 06/29/2023 4:44:35 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: MtnClimber

Another reason I won’t go back to France.


23 posted on 06/29/2023 4:48:57 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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To: A strike

“making a stupid point,
and proud of it .”

Yes! You should stop doing that (it makes you sound dumb).


24 posted on 06/29/2023 5:07:08 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Dang, you are SO clever discerning (look it up) that,
I figured that you, no, I knew you would fall for it.


25 posted on 06/29/2023 6:10:50 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: A strike

“Dang, you are SO clever discerning (look it up) that,
I figured that you, no, I knew you would fall for it.”

Oops you did it again. When you’re in a hole you should stop digging. Thanks for playing.


26 posted on 06/29/2023 6:40:06 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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