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5 minutes ago, jtssrx said:

Ask yourself why our media isn’t covering it??? These protests are over failed leftist policy’s like the Paris Climate Accord. People don’t want to pay Absorbent prices for energy because some dip shit politician sign some toothless Agreement

The fuel tax was rescinded December 5.

8 minutes ago, Mileage Psycho said:

What's stopping you?

Lmao. 

*Derp* y u no goes 2 franch 2 proetist? *Derp*

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3 minutes ago, Edmo said:

He’s more of a keyboard activist. :news:

 

4 minutes ago, jtssrx said:

He’s a total fraud that’s what’s stopping him

 

5 minutes ago, jtssrx said:

That’s why we should never give up our arms

Fuck you Vince for winding up the retards

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7 Questions Explained about France’s Yellow Vest Protests

The massive demonstrations have led to six deaths, 1,648 injuries, and roughly 2,300 arrests—and they have forced the French government to respond to the protesters' demands.
Monday, December 17, 2018
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What’s going on in France?

For the past two months, a protest movement known as Gilets Jaunes (the Yellow Vests) has rocked France. The French government has considered imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of some of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade.

What are the Gilets Jaunes protesting?

The protests were started to oppose a “green tax” increase on gasoline and diesel fuel. The taxes are part of an environmental measure to encourage a reduction in the use of fossil fuels. The protesters are demanding a freeze on these taxes because they  disproportionately hurt the working class.

However, the protests have expanded to include other economic and social issues, including an increase in the minimum wage, more generous pensions, lower taxes, and easier university entry requirements.

How much was the increase in fuel taxes?

Taxes on diesel fuel have recently gone up 7 euro cents (nearly 8 US cents) and 4 euro cents on gasoline (about 5 US cents).

The price of diesel, the most commonly used fuel in French cars, has risen by around 23 percent over the past 12 months to an average of 1.51 euros ($1.71) per liter ($6.47 per gallon). Gasoline currently costs about 1.64 euros a liter in Paris ($7.06 per gallon).

In January, France was scheduled to boost a carbon tax another 3 euro cents per liter of gas and 6 euro cents per liter on diesel.

Why are they wearing yellow vests?

For the past decade, French law has required all motorists to have a “high-visibility upper-body garment” within arm’s reach in case the driver needs to get out of an immobilized vehicle. The protestors adopted them because they are widely available, and their distinctive color helps to serve as an identifying marker for the fuel protests.

How many people have participated in the protests?

According to the Interior Ministry, the number of  protesters peaked last month at 282,000.

How many people have been injured, killed, and arrested?

To date, the protests have resulted in the deaths of six people. (Editor's note: The death toll has since increased to eight.) Approximately 1,648 others have been injured, including 552 police officers. More than 1,600 people have been taken in for questioning and 2,300 arrested.

How has the French government responded?

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has promised several concessions. He agreed to raise the minimum wage by 100 euro per month starting in 2019 (a 7 percent increase), canceled a planned tax increase for low-income retirees, removed a tax on overtime pay, and said that employers would be encouraged to pay a tax-free end of year bonus to employees.

Macron refused to reintroduce the solidarity tax on wealth, though, saying “this would weaken us, we need to create jobs.” That solidarity tax was an annual direct wealth tax on those in France with assets in excess of 1,300,000 euros ($1.47 million).

The estimated cost of the measures is likely to be between 8-10 billion euros.

Why is France suffering from such dire economic problems?

As Samuel Gregg, the research director for the Acton Institute, explains:

Much of the country is, for example, being crushed by taxes. By international standards, French income tax rates are steep. There’s also a 20 percent Value Added Tax applied to most purchases that disproportionately impacts the less well-off. Altogether, the total tax burden amounts to 45.5 percent of total domestic income. Macron’s now-suspended proposal to raise fuel taxes in the name of fighting climate change turned out to be the last straw for the France that lives outside Paris’s wealthy arrondissements, where few people drive cars.

Why then are taxes so high? One reason is that government spending in France amounts to a whopping 57 percent of annual GDP. Most of this is expended on France’s burgeoning welfare state.

Another longstanding economic problem is France’s labor laws. Despite recent changes, the country’s 3,000-page Code du Travail still makes it hard to fire anyone who possesses what’s called a contrat de travail à durée indéterminée—an open-ended contact with no closing date. Hence, many French businesses simply don’t bother expanding their permanent employee base. Numerous young French men and women are thus reduced to cobbling together part-time arrangements or drifting between temporary contracts. The resulting uncertainty corrodes their ability to make long-term plans, such as when to marry and have children.

For all the chatter about France being laid waste by “neoliberalism,” its large and modern economy isn’t all that free. In the heyday of economic liberalization in Europe in the 1980s and early 1990s, France never had a dynamic Thatcher-like figure. In the 2018 Index of Economic FreedomFrance comes in at an unimpressive 71 out of 180 countries. In the European region, it ranks an embarrassing 34 out of 44, wedged between Montenegro and Portugal.

With the exception of mildly market-friendly reforms implemented by Charles de Gaulle in 1958 and even milder changes introduced by François Mitterrand in the early 1980s, successive French governments have long pursued dirigiste economic policies. One manifestation of this heavy government involvement in the economy is the protection and subsidization of numerous industries at French taxpayers’ expense. Much of this assistance is justified in the name of maintaining what French governments refer to as the country’s “national champions.” It’s good, the argument goes, for France to support its high-flying companies. Contemporary examples include businesses like the train-maker Alstom or the telecom equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent. But if these companies are such world-beaters, why do they require endless help from the French government?

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14 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

 

 

Fuck you Vince for winding up the retards

Your own words bro...you’re too old for battle. So keyboard warrior it is!

:lmao: 

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4 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

:lol:

Was it you that accused somebody in this thread about not knowing what is going on in France?

:lmao:

 

Yes, I was, because clearly some people know fuck all (cough) Vince(cough).

It's a massive rejection of neoliberalism, in a nutshell.

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8 minutes ago, Mileage Psycho said:

Hey these assholes didn't give up there arms or there burning Michelin tires :lol:

 

No chance they had guns under Saddam you penis headed dago midget FUCK :finger: unless they were in the army 

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3 minutes ago, Woodtick said:

And @Zambroski set him up with black socks and Crocks. Fuckface is all ready.

The mother fucker is ready to go out there and learn all about the cultural and sub-cultural facets of Europe......from the seat of a plush tour bus.

My only hope is he comes back and learns is all about how other countries think and operate with so much more superiority than the US.  .....and hates guns.  :lmao:

 

 

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2 hours ago, jtssrx said:

Ask yourself why our media isn’t covering it??? These protests are over failed leftist policy’s like the Paris Climate Accord. People don’t want to pay Absorbent prices for energy because some dip shit politician sign some toothless Agreement

It is not shown on the news up here either. The scary part is Macron and Trudeau are friends, although, according to this left leaning article (The CBC) they supposedly disagree on some issues? If true, Trudope is even more dangerous than Macron.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1213364291803

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1 minute ago, Edmo said:

Getting arrested and thrown in the slammer in a foreign country? Yeah, sounds like a real hoot!

:lmao: 

This is is Noggin your talking to.  He won't even show up to an Antifa rally in his home town much less go to a foreign country and join the dissidents in the fight against oppression. 

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