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| Paris seeks alternative to 75% tax |
| 2013-03-04 |
| [FT] France's Socialist government is considering replacing its stricken 75 per cent top income tax rate on earnings above €1m, with a 65-66 per cent rate on households earning more than €2m. The proposed new rate is working its way through the National Assembly as part of budget measures aimed at redressing France's growing public deficit. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Yes I know the song. I was being sarcastic and it was 0 dark 30 |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2013-03-04 19:34 |
| #6 Sorry newc they don't want everything equal. They want everything OTHER THAN THEMSELVES equal. Don't forget the Temptations..."Politicians say more taxes will solve everything!" |
| Posted by: Alanc 2013-03-04 15:23 |
| #5 They want everything equal. NO. It cannot and will never be equal, no matter what you try. There will always be rich and there will always be poor. Now grow up. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-03-04 13:40 |
| #4 If the government really treated everyone equally then surely they would all pay exactly the same for the government services!? Regardless of what they earned privately. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-03-04 12:13 |
| #3 Cheddar: Ten Years After, "I'd Love To Change The World", 1971 |
| Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-03-04 11:35 |
| #2 I think Cheaderhead very appropriately means egalitarian Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism—is a trend of thought that favors equality for particular categories of, or for all, living entities. By the way are guillotines still used in France or have the French Socialist sequestered the engineering plans for the devise while they are in office? |
| Posted by: Hupusoling Unineth8532 2013-03-04 08:17 |
| #1 How's that song go.....................oh yah...."tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more"............... Of course the logical conclussion of that is everybodies poor. But it is so elgantarian |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2013-03-04 05:48 |