Actually, socialism has hit a speed-bump that the political folks in Europe thought was non-existent. Whether you go to Belgium, France, Italy, Germany or Spain....you find certain states that have business and real income....thus generating plenty of money for the revenue pot of the nation.
Oddly enough....the pot is shared out to poorer states within the country, and each state with upper-income status is now questioning the unfair nature of the “deal”. Bavaria and Hessen are two German states suing the German federal guys over the distribution income...because they shuffle roughly fifty percent of the national tax base into the national pot for the remaining 14 German states. The German court system will review how they started this gimmick, and how it might be altered....meaning the poorer states will likely get less money in the future.
Socialism is hitting reality. In one way or another, it is unfair.
In France capitalism is dead along with most of its principles.
Even the right to property is simply non-existent or exercised worse than in Brezhnev’s USSR.
I have a friend living in France who has a neighbor who moved to Switzerland for a year on a job contract.
She owns a property and rented it to some immigrant family from North Africa not to leave it vacant.
Not only she has never got any pay for more than 2 months front after they have initially arranged a deal, when she went to settle things a year later she was confronted by a bunch of the family’s cousins, other relatives and ethnic thugs who slapped her and slashed her tires.
Then she went to police they said her it is a civil dispute and she has no business to bother authorities, but they warned that she would go to jail if she would try to solve her inconvenience by “extrajudicial ways”.
She spent months and tons of money in a lawsuit and her tenants has never even appeared in court. They had a government-paid lawyer instead who insisted that they can’t be evicted because they are awaiting a baby which is a permanent condition for this family.
She is still paying taxes and their utilities on demand of municipality and utilities companies, she is in A lawsuit with people downstairs who has a leak damage from her tenants and also social services raided her property and fond it completely trashed, fond it unsuitable to raise tenants’ children and demand her to make some 6,000 euro repairs.
To make things worse, these people claimed they are paying her over 2000 euro a month in their welfare application so she has also a tax service demanding to pay a bill and threatening prosecution for undeclared income.