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Emile Picy and Catherine Bremer Reuters 12/29/2012 France’s Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit. The Council ruled that the planned 75 percent tax on […] December 29th, 2012 | Tags: "fiscal cliff", carbon tax, class warfare, entitlement reforms, Francois Hollande, Gérard Depardieu, married couples, Value Added Tax | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Economy, Federal spending, France, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
Actor attacks French government for punishing talent as he moves to Belgium The Guardian [UK] 16 December 2012 Gérard Depardieu has said he is handing back his French passport and social security card, lambasting the French government for punishing “success, creation, talent” in his homeland. A popular and colourful figure in France, the 63-year-old actor […] December 19th, 2012 | Tags: Francois Hollande, Gérard Depardieu | Category: Elections, France, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
Reuters 11/17/2012 Tens of thousands of people, joined by Catholic church leaders, marched in cities across France on Saturday to protest against government plans to legalize same-sex marriage. Demonstrators, holding banners with slogans such as “don’t touch civil marriage”, “all born from the union of a man and a woman” and “one father + one […] November 23rd, 2012 | Tags: adoption, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, credit rating, culture, Francois Hollande, gay marriage, homosexuality, Lyon, Marseille, national identity, Paris, Pope Benedict XVI, Toulouse | Category: France, Health Care, Islam, Medicine, Politics, Progressives, religion, Socialism | Comments are closed
Tyler Durden ZeroHedge 10/7/2012 Back in July, when the news of the French foray into the “fairness doctrine” hit, and we learned of Hollande’s plan to tax all those making over €1 million at a 75% tax rate, we said that “we are rotating our secular long thesis away from Belgian caterers and into tax […] October 8th, 2012 | Tags: class warfare, debate, Francois Hollande, global redistribution of wealth, global tax, government spending, Mitt Romney, Prof. Harvey Rosen, real estate, Shariah Law | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Entitlements, France, Government programs, Islam, Politics, Socialism, Taxes | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Jeff G. Protein Wisdom 7/7/2012 …The United Nations on Thursday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries… …who are [the wealthy] to decide what it is they do with the money they’ve earned. That’s the kind of decision that should be left up to […] July 7th, 2012 | Tags: "global warming", Francois Hollande, global redistribution of wealth, global tax, national sovereignty, New World Order, Warren Buffett, World Economic and Social Survey | Category: corruption, Marxism, Progressives, Socialism, Taxes, United Nations, US Constitution | Comments are closed
British owners of holiday homes in France are to be hit with punitive tax rises under plans announced on Wednesday by the new Socialist government. Henry Samuel The Telegraph [UK] 04 Jul 2012 Approximately 200,000 Britons own second homes in areas such as the Dordogne and other parts of France, particularly those serviced by budget […] July 5th, 2012 | Tags: budget deficit, class warfare, Francois Hollande, holiday homes | Category: Economy, France, Great Britain, Politics, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
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