Fiscal suicide
Here’s a riddle: in what country are the richest 1% paying 41% of all the income taxes and where the richest 5% are paying more than 65%?
Here’s a riddle: in what country are the richest 1% paying 41% of all the income taxes and where the richest 5% are paying more than 65%?
Grenoble, Marseilles, and Strasbourg. Three cities, that were the place of three recent tragic events, with no relationships among them, and many would like to make them appear as simple or ordinary news items. In Grenoble, two young men were massacred by a gang of thugs, for a misinterpreted look.
Depuis trois ans, les Américains ont réussi à faire croire qu’il n’y avait plus de crise qu’en Europe. Et mieux, même, que l’Europe en était la seule cause, sans vouloir admettre que les désordres financiers ont commencé avec l’endettement excessif des ménages américains, et avec la titrisation de ces emprunts…
Jacques Attali will speak from 4:30pm to 6pm during the round table “What does sharing mean?”, that will take place in the Grand Amphithéâtre of La Sorbonne.
Two fundamental trends, apparently unrelated, combine today in France. On the one hand, a growing number of young French people, with or without degrees, leave the country.
While, in Paris, some gathered together around a precautionary principle too often obscurantist, to discuss mainly what not to do in order not to harm the environment, others gathered in Le Havre from around the world, more than one thousand persons, to listen to 100 entrepreneurs, trade unionists, directors of NGOs, of mutual societies, of trade unions and of large companies, who came to explain what they do to improve it.
After the debate on the “red carpet” that Mr Cameron would like to roll out under the feet of French entrepreneurs and the submission of an application for the acquisition of the Belgian nationality by Bernard Arnault, and other similar debates in other countries, we are entering a very dangerous time for France and for Europe.
I love these naive and great questions, that all the children in the world insist on asking their parents and whose answer is almost impossible to express in simple, non-scientific terms. For example: « Why is the sky blue? » Or: « If God can do everything, can he decide that he does not exist »?