A left-wing bloc made up of the Socialist, Communist, Green parties and the hard-left France Unbowed had proposed a minimum 2 per cent tax on wealth over €100 million (S$150 million), dubbed the “Zucman tax” after the French economist who devised it.
Mr Lecornu expressed his “profound disagreement” with the wealth-tax proposal, insisting there was no such thing as a “miracle tax”.
Government: We have a budget deficit and we’re going to raise the retirement age.
The left: Don’t raise the retirement age and tax the rich!
Government: No.
Also government: Why is the far right on the rise?
The far right voted against the tax, they are pretending to care about workers but every time they vote in favor of the richest.
Evoking xenophobia elicits a stronger emotional response than pin pointing the root cause of the problem, which is oligarchy. People are distracted by culture wars.
The left: Wait, why aren’t we on the rise?!
Some on the left became turncoats (I’m talking to you British Labour).
Corporate cronyism has destroyed leftists credibility
Jup, as an outsider british politics continues to baffle me.