This time, socialism will work!

This time, socialism will work! “France’s new Socialist government announced tax rises worth 7.2 billion euros on Wednesday, including heavy one-off levies on wealthy households and big corporations, to plug a revenue shortfall this year caused by flagging economic growth…” But they somehow expect this will stimulate growth. Centuries of failure prove nothing!

This post was last modified on April 12, 2021

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  • Only the dumbest MFers would believe that socialism will work THIS TIME. We have heard it time & again, & it always fails. ALWAYS.

  • The rich will be fleeing in droves, if they haven't already. We should prepare.

    Get those scams ready, folks. Dumb rich people headed our way!

    Hey, think Roman will have to leave?

  • I read somewhere that this new tax on rich people will include people with a million in the bank, not high earners. That's the group our dems will go after next. Once they've taxed high earners and failed to fix the deficit, they will have to attack those that have worked hard and saved to pay for their follies. Work hard, save money to pay for your own retirement and guess what? The government screws you to pay for other's failure to plan. Our clowns are using Europe as an economic role model so watch for this to come here next.

    • *snickers* Ah, yes. The playbook of the left/socialists/progressives. Tax heavily, lose money as people stop doing the things they were being taxed for, wonder why "utopian" plan failed, repeat.

      • "A hoarder! A capitalist! The assets must be seized for the good of the state."

        Socialist assholes.

        Not that they actually said this in the article. I didn't read it. But I didn't have to, either. I know what socialists do and how it ends.

  • France. The country that has never won a war they were involved in except their own civil war, and only part of the people won that war. They have not "discovered" bath soap or shampoo. The women do not know what a razor is nor how to use one.

    They have been a half-assed country for a couple of centuries now, dependent on us, the US of A, since WWI and they will not change. To hell with them, let the country fall on its face, I'm tired of my tax money being spent to help those who are too damn arrogant, or stupid, to help themselves.

    • It's "coyote" there bobon. I hate to be the spelling police but since I are one I thought I'd set you straight. A coyote is not only an ugly assed wild dog in the southwest, it is a common term for those of us who have anglo and Mexican blood running in our veins.

      • LOL - I cannot believe I misspelled coyote (notice Whiskeyriver that I didn't misspell "misspelled" lol). I must start paying better attention...

        • Nah, none of the rest of us pay much attention either. Unless we want to be a smartass. (teehee)

          • Actually, I was going to try to cover it by saying Wiley Coyete is my neighbor and he always says that for some reason, but you guys are too sharp for that, lol. Damned Acme computer...

  • See France. France-France-France. See France Tax. Tax France Tax! See the Rich French,. Rich-rich-rich. See them run. Run rich run! Watch France collapse. Collapse-collapse-collapse! Watch Obama emulate them. Stupid-stupid-stupid.

    • I want to say they will regret this, but RKae had it right yesterday. When it all goes to crap? They will simply place the blame on the very people who kept telling them that this would not be a good idea.