Posted on 07/30/2022 7:50:20 PM PDT by Nextrush
France's Senate voting last night on purchasing power legislation.
"Emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power"
is the way the legislation was described.
The Senate amending the original version that passed the National Assembly focused on helping the poorer French but keeping in the key measure of a four percent hike for pensions and other government subsidies retroactive to July 1st.
The Senate voted to help business in France as well so a commercial rent cap ot 3.5 percent a year was put in the Senate version...
In the summer in the heat the protests continue they are very muted and small in size.
The voters have voted and now French political leaders seem more responsive to people's concerns the cost of gasoline has been heavily subsidized by both the government and private companies...
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What a mess.
Did you flunk out of blog school?
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