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Cybermat47

12-30-12 06:36 PM

Hang on, didn't the French lose 75% of their sperm recently?
Perhaps this is...compensation!?

Jimbuna

12-31-12 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1985767)

Who is talking about companies? The 75% tax is for those making over a certain amount. I see some making the assumption this infers companies making over a certain amount. It looks to me the 75% includes anyone. So tell me how a movie star making over the amount somehow uses more government services. Is this individual making the IRS work extra hours to access his tax? Is this person going to the government sponsored parks than the less wealthy? Is he using the roads more than the others? Is he using the internet to trade on the markets? Possibly. But the guy with lesser wealth is using the net as well. Why should this individual making movies pay 75%? Because he can?

Well Gerard Depardieu certainly feels the same way as do many others:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...departure.html

AVGWarhawk

12-31-12 08:07 AM

And he is right to be pissed. There are two trains of thought in this thread. The reasoning that you did not "build" that road, that internet, that bridge. But you used it to accumulate wealth and so should pay more. I'm guessing this is were Mookie believes I should reassess the idea that the wealthy do use more government services. Is it the wealthy or the company that uses these service that are govt run? Then there's the train of thought that some have wealth but do not run a business using that road, that internet or that bridge they did not build to obtain the wealth. But somehow these folks should pay more.

Jimbuna

01-01-13 10:36 AM

Hollande is determined to go ahead with his planned tax hike but it is possible the rate may be lowered:

Quote:

Hollande vows to revive French supertax

In a national address on New Year's Eve, he said the law would be redesigned, adding, "we will still ask more of those who have the most".
However, he did not mention the 75% figure, leading some to speculate that the move would be watered down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20881383

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