Posted on 12/11/2018 10:05:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After weeks of spreading riots and demonstrations in Paris, socialist French President Emmanuel Macron has had an epiphany or sorts. Not only is he not going to put a new global warming tax on fuel, he's going to let financially-strapped French families keep more of their money from the taxman. At least this year.
"No mercy"? Sounds like total surrender for someone who, just days earlier, arrested 1, 939 people across the country, more than a thousand of those in Paris.
The truth is, Macron has lost control both of the people and of the narrative. His 18% approval rating is one of the lowest in modern French history.
Meanwhile, the French tax revolt is spreading. People in other countries are also fed up with high taxes and arrogant governments staffed by rich, autocratic bureaucrats.
So why have Democrats made a vague "Green New Deal" one of the centerpieces of their agenda for next year's Congress?
In short, the "Green New Deal" is basically just soup-to-nuts green socialism. That's it.
It's yet another step in the Democratic Party's radicalization. As we've noted many times before, Americans won't like green socialism anymore than the regular kinds. Don't be shamed into believing its false claims. It's a system that has never worked anywhere. And it certainly won't work here.
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Nuts! RN, the CGT and CFDT are anti Macron! Macron is a technocrat Tony Blair. There are many groups protesting. The majority aren’t libertarians! They still want the goodies. These articles are projecting bs.
no pitié
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Isn’t it fair to characterize the Yellowjackets as leftists that are not happy with the consequences of policies they support?
So they liked the taxes, they just didn’t expect to actually be the ones paying it.
Keep voting democrat and we’ll have all the joys of socialism here.
French Riots Really Aren't About Global Warming - They're About Tax Heavy Socialism"They're About Tax Heavy Socialism" imposed under the guise of fixing global warming.
The author/title sounds like a climate change apologist.
They’re not really that mad about “socialism”, a lot of the so called demands are socialistic in their aims. The problem is the socialism is for Muslims and Africans only.
If ethnic French were benefitting from the policies they wouldn’t care, it’s the fact that the tax burden goes to pay for people who are not their own people.
Socialism isn’t “tax heavy”. Under socialism you have no property of your own. The elitists skim whatever it takes for their lavish lifestyles and try to use what’s left to placate the populace to prevent a revolution.
Well maybe they’re about both...
High taxes and all the warmist crap punishing every aspect of people’s lives.
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