Posted on 12/11/2012 8:42:01 PM PST by Route395
Jean-Marc Ayrault's outburst came after France's best-known actor, Gerard Dépardieu, took up legal residence in a small village just over the border in Belgium, alongside hundreds of other wealthy French nationals seeking lower taxes. "Those who are seeking exile abroad are not those who are scared of becoming poor," the prime minister declared after unveiling sweeping anti-poverty measures to help those hit by the economic crisis. These individuals are leaving "because they want to get even richer," he said. "We cannot fight poverty if those with the most, and sometimes with a lot, do not show solidarity and a bit of generosity," he added. "Thankfully, few are seeking exile to exempt themselves from being in solidarity with fellow Frenchmen."
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Roll the tumbrels, mes amis!
When the rich is taxed more, government forgets the rich can hop on their planes and leave. The rich are not stones who can't move.
England raised the tax on the rich, and they left. Tax collections took a dive. England is trying to get the rich to return now.
Keep talking, Ayrault. If we’re lucky you’ll end up like Robespierre.
le snit!
Arrêtez-vous, Monsieur Piggy Bank!
Here in NJ our wealthy are fleeing, but rather than condemn them Christie is trying to make it more attractive for them to stay.
The same will happen here in America, the Obamadream to redistribute from the wealthy to the poor will suddenly find the wealthy have taken their toys away with them elsewhere.
Their money will be offshore, there will be nothing to take.
Socialism is great in concept but until we get to an age where its possible like maybe 4 or 5 centuries from now when everyone has a food replicator, all have abundant free energy and Islam has been booted to its new Mohammad Star Cluster forever and islam is banned on earth, then and only then can the utopian socialist idea can ever be possibly attained.
Not now while we are barbarians under the rule of depots, tyrants, usurpers and frauds.
Still doesn’t mean socialism is right, its still a form of Communism, better off to just pick out another planet and deport all Communists there, let them make it work.
Flight of the fleeced.
Gerard is laughing all the way to the Belgian bank, and good for him. I hope many other wealthy French follow his example. By insulting Dépardieu, Jean-Marc is probably ensuring that his wealth will never return to France, even after the current crop of Socialist pinheads depart the scene.
French socialists calling wealthy French citizens who leave the country because of extortionists taxes cowards is like a robber demanding the fleeing people who he is trying to rob come back and happily give him their money.
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