Perhaps, the French socialists will buy the Berlin Wall rubble from the Germans to keep the Frenchmen in France. They always have the Maginot Line too. Sooner or later, socialists have to wall their people in or collapse.
So funny. In my experience the French hate the Belgians most of all- in their long list of nationalities that they despise(ahead by the way of the Germans or Americans)
Theres another liberal/ socialist option other than building a wall..................raise taxes on the rich! Those rich must pay their fair share
Depardieu had to pay 85% tax in 2012 (according to him). How can anybody justify that, even though the 75% top bracket is supposedly a "temporary" measure? What does he get in return? What do people in the UK get in return for working half of the year for the state? Poor state "services"; schools who teach children about gay marriage but not how to count; a welfare state that subsides junkies and the third world; endless "interventions" in the Middle East. Then why you die in a filthy, dirty old people's home after being neglected and abused for years, the same state takes another half of your worth in "inheritance tax". So props to Depardieu for speaking his mind and being honest about his actions and motivations, unlike hypocritical, middle class, white liberals such as Jimmy Carr.
Ha, Ha. Bit muddled here I think. There was a time when high earners in the UK paid 95% in tax and the US was much the same. However your person paying 85% tax will not have the life you think. S/he will not be bothered too much with state services preferring instead private. Likewise children will be spent to the top private schools, they likely make their money from the ME wars...and as for imaging such a person will - only if such a person is insane. Obviously they will be looked after in the most comfortable way - and all this while still paying 85% tax. WOW. too easy. Bring back the 95%.
I think you are referring to the Second World War and the aftermath (at least for the 95% rate). The top rate has been higher in the past, but only a small number of the super rich fell into these sort of tax brackets. 'Tis not the point. It's still extortion. At least when Italians pay the Cosa Nostra / Camorra etc they call it what it is (in fact many Italians prefer the honoured societies and consider them far less corrupt and parasitical than the government). Do you seriously think people are going to hang around for 75%, let alone anything higher? Seriously?
It was 99.25% during the second world war. I knew someone who paid the highest rate which was actually 90% and although he had a couple of bob, no way was he super rich. When you look at the super rich they are only the top 0.1% and they very rarely pay any tax. It is the point. If you put something even you agree is not true......... Ah, in favour of protection rackets. I seriously think we need to find a way to get the super rich to put back in. What is more they are only asked to pay that once they have gone past obscene levels of money. It is finding the right way. You must be aware even Cameron discovered that our Super rich do not pay tax. If you work, you pay tax and support their NHS..Now if they start giving a bit back and paying tax the needed money will be there to invest to improve the infrastructure you are so appalled at.
What's the difference? Seriously? At least the Mafia / Camorra keeps the more filthy, undisciplined elements of petty criminality out of their territory and deals with wrongdoers far faster than the police would. For me, I go to prison if I don't work a large part of the year for a regime just as criminal, who spends my money on things I disagree with, immoral and bloody foreign wars in my name and a lot of 10th rate public services that I don't use. We have an elite that spends the earnings of the working class on renovating their homes and building swimming pools in their back gardens. A government that freely advocates welfare for banks and their super leveraged derivative trades, but shoves disabled soldiers in dilapidated tower blocks. Don't hold your breath. Yes, I'm sure him and his Notting Hill friends had never even heard of the Cayman Islands, shell companies and artificial losses this time last year. Must have been fuming at Jimmy Carr, Bradley Wiggins, Bill Roache et al for getting this into the spotlight.
In my view France has to change its tax system. It's mostly populict bill. Nobody wants to pay such a huge sum. A fat taxpayer always can discover some holes as did Depardieu and some other French rich ppl. This tax policy may be a mixed blessing.
Socialists are idiots... We will keep the poor and lazy people in France and eject all the rich and worker... I'm always trying to understand where is the advantage for the country to do that, and I think I will never understand it... Look like a sort of communist country, now; I think we've never have a president worse than Hollande in the V republic, he's stupid, lung, he don't understand anything... That's sad.
No worst president than Hollande? He isn't even a fifth into his term. I think comments on his presidency are a bit premature. Not to mention the mess that he inherited from the right. The right had all levers of power in the French government from 2002 to 2011 and couldn't do anything. The Socialists have had the same for not even a year and they are failures. Talk about a double standard.
I have to congratulate Hollande for getting rid of the rich bastards . Moving to Belgium will not stop French police going after them for tax evasion you know
Musn't wait for mircale with a president like that... If you see his program, there's no one economy who is proposed one; what a bad idea for a country on the edge of the abyss... And we've see with the only other president of left, Mitterrand, that socialists empty cash registers of the country. Hollande haven't been elected because French people love him and his program, but because 52% of the French people where ready to everyting to eject Sarkozy... This is Sarkozy's rejection, and not Hollande's victory. An other reson to hate Hollande is that he's a big lier; during the debate Hollande vs Sarkozy, the two candidates did not agree about a lof of figures; after have verified, you can can see that Hollande was lying during all the debate... Nice!... Miss Sarkozy.
