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February 26, 2007
Anti-Monopoly
Recently noted for her "gaffe" about supporting an "independent" Québec, Ségolène Royal's program is drawing fire from an unlikely quarter. As noted in the comments at Rantburg, if the Independent thinks your program is too socialist you have a serious, serious problem.
Ségolène Royal's famous "100 Point Plan" seems more like "100 Ways to Make Things Worse". Taxes? She'd raise them even higher, with more wealth tax (already levied on individuals' homes) and more income tax (everyone earning above £30,000 a year would be clobbered). She'd abolish the 60 per cent tax threshold ceiling recently introduced. (Trying to speed up emigration, Ségolène?) Oh, and she'd put a new tax on people living abroad. (Trying to get them to renounce French citizenship?)
Spending too high? She'd spend even more. Ségolène wants to give an interest-free loan to every 18-year-old, make unemployment benefits 90 per cent of the claimant's previous salary, raise pension payments by 5 per cent. All this amounts to a grand total of a 20 per cent increase in public spending that was considered so shocking the man who did the numbers for her resigned last week.
Spending too high? She'd spend even more. Ségolène wants to give an interest-free loan to every 18-year-old, make unemployment benefits 90 per cent of the claimant's previous salary, raise pension payments by 5 per cent. All this amounts to a grand total of a 20 per cent increase in public spending that was considered so shocking the man who did the numbers for her resigned last week.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 26, 2007 07:03 AM
