Not a clue.
Maybe I need glasses, I'm having trouble reading "I don't feel solidarity with Hamas" from this response. Any intention to say something like that?
EU election
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Well here's the first round, it's looking like my prediction is holding true. Now is the time for Macron to get some gifts from Melenchon and then throw support behind him.
Nope, you're free to decide the context absolves someone if you want, and that therefore you believe their racism is beyond criticism. But you'd have to A) be honest that's your approach, rather than offering waffling eulogies that entirely ignore or downplay their racism to begin with; and B) be consistent, rather than selectively using allegations of racism to damn some people (if you like the tyrant they live under) and not others.
Well, what a shitshow. Much now depends on how Macron and his supporters decide to continue: support RN, support NFP, or be stubborn and refuse to do either.
Economy minister Bruno le Maire and Pays de la Loire council President Christelle Morancais have opted for the latter. Despicable assholes.
Macron himself and PM Gabriel Attal have both encouraged tactical voting against the RN in the second round, including support for NFP.
Economy minister Bruno le Maire and Pays de la Loire council President Christelle Morancais have opted for the latter. Despicable assholes.
Macron himself and PM Gabriel Attal have both encouraged tactical voting against the RN in the second round, including support for NFP.
Well, whatever else you say about Macron, he has consistently been against RN. Which makes it ironic that he's likely to be the one that has handed them power.
What makes me despair about people voting for the far right is that the far right never like or respect democracy. The minute they get in they'll be chipping away at democratic norms as fast as they can - media, judiciary, etc.
Treason season came early today. Don't trust her. Her loyalty clearly isn't to Europe or France.
www.pravda.com.ua
Le Pen calls for cancellation of authorisation for Ukraine to use French weapons to strike Russia
Marine Le Pen, the de-facto leader of the French far-right National Rally party, has promised that if her party comes to power after the second round of parliamentary elections, she will not allow Ukraine to use French long-range weapons to strike Russia.
www.pravda.com.ua
French second-round voting today. Third-placed candidates from the first round in each constituency are pulled out, leading to two-party contests. It's predicted that the RN will probably gain a plurality, but not a majority. Exit poll expected at 8pm BST.
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Lowering the retirement to 60 would be one, iirc the green are also really into shutting down nuclear reactor (they don't mention that this mean turning to fossil fuel). Bringing back the wealth tax is also stupid considering it barely brought any revenue and was more trouble to administer then it was worth.
Then its a bit hard to say since there's a bunch of party that each have their own demand, some of them farcical, but overall, wanting the state to spend a lot more when its already spending far more than it collect in tax.
Is the wealth tax based on land ownership?
There should be a plan to replace nuclear.... A PLAN (like replacing it by the end of the life of the reactor). If it's just shutting down a reactor, that's stupid
Economically, the age of 60 anywhere is untenable
From 62, whereas Macron had aimed to raise it to 65. That's hardly "crazy".
The Ecologistes only favour moving from nuclear onto renewables. Not onto fossil fuels. If any phase-out would require an increase in fossil fuels, then the Greens would support a delay until it wouldn't.
Then that was a problem of implementation, not principle. The super-rich are the single largest source of largely untapped revenue. The majority of that money is economically inactive, and we're talking billions. Taxing it makes absolute economic and moral sense.
Wealth tax was overall, well sorta, it was complicated (because wealth tax are really hard to implement).
The green don't make plan, look at Germany. They would have rush to shut them all down. There's also no reason to replace them, nuclear complement renewable perfectly.
62 is already crazy, 60 is economic suicide.
The problem is that the wealth of rich is untapped, or rather, hypothetical money. Look at it this way, someone make a company, make it public and create share of it, the share price explode and now the company is worth trillions, government comes in and tax the unrealized gain for (lets say) 100 millions. That's no different than the central bank printing 100 millions, its creating money that doesn't exist and injecting it into the economy. And eventually the market would price in the wealth tax which would depreciate the value of share by quite a lot, people would move to other system to hold their wealth, system that would be harder for average people to take advantages of (it would also destroy the retirement of millions). The only good use of wealth tax is to force inactive asset back onto the market (ie land based) but land based tax are really complicated to implement and their own bag.
As it happened: Incumbent PM to stay on while victorious French left seeks replacement
Following the left’s shock win, no single party or alliance is able to form a majority.
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The final numbers are out
The Republicans are bordering on a non-party and Ensemble has fallen apart, there by the grace of the left in service of defeating the right. But it's definitely a hung parliament. And I think Macron will be spending the rest of his term fighting the left and letting the right fester.
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someone is going to pay that tax: when they do, that is -100 million from the money supply. just because we're dealing with a situation in which someone is probably selling shares in order to pay the tax does not mean that the money is created from nothing. someone is buying the shares or, indeed, the person holding the shares is paying the tax themselves from some other source. this is literally contractionary fiscal policy, the opposite of expansionary: the opposite of 'creating money from nothing'. it is subtracting money from the money supply. The fact that it is Euros and not a real sovereign currency complicates things a little-- the money isn't simply deleted as it would be if it were dollars-- but the core point of whether it is contractionary or expansionary is unaffected.
oh, sure, the rich would definitely surrender their ownership of the economy to retirees and poorer day traders, finding something other than the entire basis of personal wealth generation in our current economic system to hoard. and retirees will (well, would) be devastated to find out that the price to earnings ratios of stocks would be generally lower, meaning that the same contributions would buy more of the same value of asset.