UN France’s new left-wing coalition reveals plans to introduce a 90 per cent tax on the rich amid shock election result - LMAO

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The New Popular Front (NPF), a coalition of different left-wing groups, sent shockwaves through French politics over the weekend after winning more seats than both Ensemble, the party of Emmanuel Macron, and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally.

However, despite winning the most seats at 182, the NPF did not win a majority and is set for a power struggle with Macron in the coming days.

The NPF’s leaders met on Monday to agree upon who they should put forward to lead their proposed new government.

“We are preparing to govern, to apply the programme which is ours,” said Manuel Bompard, co-ordinator of the France Unbowed party.

This programme looks set to include 90 per cent tax rate on annual income of over €400,000 as well as the slashing of retirement age from 64 to 60.

The NPF is also committing to at least €150 billion in spending over the next three years and calling for a 14 per cent rise in the minimum raise.

Following Sunday’s shock results, Macron’s prime minister Gabriel Attal resigned but was quickly asked by the French president to stay on in a caretaker role.

Bompard, however, has suggested Attal, 35, remaining in post would defy the will of the French people.

“There is no question of Gabriel Attal’s continuation [as prime minister] wiping out the vote of French people,” he said, as he called on Macron to “respect” the election result.

Supporters of Macron’s Ensemble have rejected the idea that Sunday saw a victory for the NPF.

“No one won,” said Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister.

Despite coming third in Sunday’s election, the National Rally’s Le Pen has insisted her party’s victory was “only delayed.”

She also branded Macron’s position as “untenable.”

Jordan Bardella, president of National Rally, said: "We've been thrown into the arms of the extreme left and of Jean-Luc Melenchon."

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-left-wing-coalition-to-introduce-a-90-per-cent-tax-on-rich/ (Archive)
 
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Anyone an actual, and may Allah forgive me for saying this, a Frenchman here?

I thought that these guys can piss about as much as they like but President Macron is essentially an elected king and can overrule and veto them at will?

That’s why he took the gamble as if Le Penn had would he’d just treat her like a bitch and bask in the glory of it?

Am I getting your system wrong, baguette bros?
 
Macaroni had to make some serious deals with the devil to keep the right out.

Now he's got a party of psychopaths and nut jobs who want nothing more then to drive France back into the stone age all for the sake of "social good" and "mother earth".

You get what you vote for you cheese eating surrender monkeys. Enjoy watching the far left dismantle your country over then next 4 years.
 
FedPostalService said:
Anyone an actual, and may Allah forgive me for saying this, a Frenchman here?

I thought that these guys can piss about as much as they like but President Macron is essentially an elected king and can overrule and veto them at will?

That’s why he took the gamble as if Le Penn had would he’d just treat her like a bitch and bask in the glory of it?

Am I getting your system wrong, baguette bros?
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There seems to be ambiguity in the wording of their constitution on whether the President or the PM controls military affairs. So at the very least it creates a ton of political fuckery with regards to things like Ukraine,military involvements in Africa, etc
 
On one hand, get fucked rich fucks. On the other hand, get fucked France without nuclear power.

Wait I am saying that like it is a bad thing. This is good news all around.
 
Remember when French and British people would make fun of Americans for being "so politically extreme and politically divided?"
I'm glad they're so different and not divided and not acting like insane people.
 
chiobu said:
This programme looks set to include 90 per cent tax rate on annual income of over €400,000
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Once you reach a that level, it's not straight salary but stock options. Are they going to tax unrealized returns?
chiobu said:
as well as the slashing of retirement age from 64 to 60.
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I may only have a rudimentary understanding of the French pension system but I don't think that's fiscally sustainable.
This isn't even addressing the capital flight problem as France is right next to:
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The article failed to mention, freaking Price Controls:
price controls on essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol
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Based Black Man explains price controls
 
Let me guess. The guys who’ll actually get hit by this tax are the remnants of the middle class who don’t have all the businesses, charities and fancy accountants that allow them to get away with paying very little in taxes.
But hey, its also the remnants if the middle class who also tend to virtue signal because thats what the tax bracket they aspire to ascend to does. So y’know…fuck em.
 
TruffleSpark said:
What is the lefty logic of being against nuclear power? Is it a safety thing?

I thought the French loved their nuclear power plants, it gives them something to be smug about when they get into arguments with foreigners.
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Environmentalists unironically believe that nuclear power is no different than what is portrayed in The Simpsons: unsafe and spitting out radioactive goo by the barrel.

They're also enormous pussies.
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