• 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Thats why they get the good stuff. Gotta keep the leaders honest with a few riots and manure deliveries to their homes.

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              1 year ago

              From 62 to 64, and they rioted. For comparison Canada retirement age is 65 and many is states is 67. Your statement implies that the French retirement age is an outlier and it’s really not.

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                Macro saved France with that, he can’t run again anyway so he will now push policys that are “against the public opinion” but necessary.

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                  There’s an army of institutions and economists who reviewed the issue over and over with 1 conclusion: there were many different solutions, raising the retirement age was ONE of them. So this was not necessary. This was a choice.

                  The system is a “simple” in/out equation. Twice in the past years this government has reduced the money in. Now they tell everyone they “saved” the system and there was no other solution. That’s all BS.

                  And by the way: looks like they couldn’t even do their math properly, because the system will still run a deficit by 2030. They counted some revenue twice. So much for “the experts”…

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              “Astronomically”.

              This is like making fun of a fireman using a bucket of water that’s twice as large as your bucket to put out a house fire.

              They pay twice as much in taxes. Vs the ludicrous cost of most basic citizen necessities in the United States .

              Pay twice as much in taxes, you get affordable/basically free healthcare and adorable/basically free higher education(medical school is 2k a year in France). Affordable, reliable long-distance transportation/physical transportation infrastructure, a living and functional social security, but sure. Careful of those taxes you could pay that would cover all basic human necessities plus all major financial concerns until you croak.

              As an example, instead of paying $3,000 in taxes per year, you could pay $6,000 in taxes per year, and you would be free to pursue any education you liked, including medical school, for $1000-$2000 per year instead of paying 30k per year just to learn core classes. Good thing you saved that 3k during tax season.

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                  1 year ago

                  You don’t want health care, social security or education?

                  You think that right now your taxes are only paying for things you want?

                  You’d rather pay $33000 for an emergency appendectomy you had no preparation for than $4000?

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                  Sounds a lot like “it’s not my problem until it actually affects me personally”.

                  I don’t know why people want to avoid paying as little taxes as possible when it basically improves the infrastructures/services in their own communities.