Posted on 12/10/2018 8:38:17 PM PST by caww
Their demands — or at least, the closest thing to the official statement from a group composed of far-right wing ethnonationalists, left-wing communists, and everyone in between — include but are not limited to an increase in pensions and minimum wage, an end to the withholding of taxes, abolition of taxes on credit card swipes, more rent control, 5 million additional public housing units, an end to at-will employment through required permanent contracts, an end to austerity measures, and a cap on personal taxes so that they don't surpass 25 percent of income.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, let alone free housing, benefits, disability pension, and job security. If the yellow vests want to embrace an ethno-Soviet welfare state for the white citizenry, they can, but only at the cost of ending economic growth and what remains of the French free market.
The French economy has long been bogged down by a bureaucracy and legal code which disincentives entrepreneurship and growth, and Macron's reforms can't reverse course overnight. But the yellow vests are wrong to succumb to rage and demand that he further feed into the French nanny state. Macron may be accused of being apathetic towards the yellow vests, but the yellow vests are more certainly apathetic to economic facts.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Fwiw, a protester came in and said that their movement had
been infiltrated, then the violence started.
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1789, not 1776.
These are leftists complaining to leftists about leftism without being willing to give it up.
Even if a small portion of tax the citizen would be required to provide on his own, this plan would work.
And when they get the tax bill, you can show them how much tax you already paid for the year.
Thanks for your comments, cpdiii. I’m learning from your discussion.
So no one is protesting immigration?
He's stuck because the French socialists want "the rich" to pay for "climate change" not their own butts through gas taxes. There are several problems with that. First he is trying to stick to his promise of no wealth taxes. Also the green schemes are already awash in money, more money is not going to purchase enough unicorns to power France. France has nuclear power and is already green. Finally, the main way to lower French CO2 is to take away the car keys from the peasants by taxing their gas. The climate alarmists are correct about that one thing (and only that one thing). Of course crashing the economy by overtaxing the rich is another way to lower CO2.
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The Examiner is lost, gone the way of fake news
Too bad
There are videos of cops changing into civilian clothes and then joining the crowd as instigators
Generally recognized and booed by the protestors
I worked in a large company where the CEO wanted to cut checks for each employee for the quarterlies he sent to the government. He wanted each employee to come down each quarter and sign their government checks.
He stated he would provide breakdown of state, local and SS taxes in checks to send.
Too bad he didn’t do it.
“French on twitter say this was not their list. They had tweeted a different list.”
The author is pouring a bucket a mud into the issue to provide cover for globalists and internationalits. They work together to destroy the middle class in France and across the West for the same purpose - to acquire absolute power and control over others.
White frogs want the same treatment as imported brown frogs.
It would be more difficult to eat their cake and have it too.
“Imagine every Taxpayer making out a big old Check to Uncle Sugar on April 15th. Half of them wouldn’t have the Money to pay their Taxes either.”
Not that it matters, but I’ve said this a hundred times. Payroll withholding was a stroke of genius by the socialists.
>>far-right wing ethnonationalists, left-wing communists...<<
So, communism isn’t far left? What exactly does one have to do or believe to qualify as “far left”?
Those yellow vests make fine targets. Snipers picking off the leaders would be a good start.
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