[Timesink]

Britons pay 45 per cent of their income to the state in taxes, compared with 75 per cent for the French.

How does the average French citizen even SURVIVE? I mean, sure, you don't have to pay (directly) for your socialized medicine, but what about your mortgage? Or food? The basics of life? How do you do that with only 25% of your income?

[freedomlover]

Britons pay 45 per cent of their income to the state in taxes, compared with 75 per cent for the French.

How does the average French citizen even SURVIVE? I mean, sure, you don't have to pay (directly) for your socialized medicine, but what about your mortgage? Or food? The basics of life? How do you do that with only 25% of your income?

You need to lower your expectations. Socialism has a way of doing that.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

and a quality of life that remains the envy of the world

LOL! I've been to Paris and various parts of France over two dozen times in ten years. What the hell are they talking about? 14,800 die without air conditioning, and all they have are space heaters in the winter. The air is worse than Houston, and it is crammed with islamic jihaddists.

The change I have seen in France over the last 10 years is alarming, to say the least.

[ampat]

I thought 75% was the maximum rate of taxation in France.

[stands2reason]

I literally came close to losing my lunch when I read that part.