Hollande's proposed tax hikes may drive businesspeople from France.

[Rhodie]

Good on 'em.

[Rhodie]

When a sovereign government takes a policy decision, good or bad, and the concerned citizens find a morally dubious way to circumvent decision, what is the reaction of the media and commentators ? They express contempt toward the assholes ? No way ! They poke fun at said government.

World is a sad place.

Or maybe the government is deploying ridiculously outdated socialist ideologies. These people are not assholes. Would you be happy if a 75% tax were levied on your earnings?

[Rhodie]

When a sovereign government takes a policy decision, good or bad, and the concerned citizens find a morally dubious way to circumvent decision, what is the reaction of the media and commentators ? They express contempt toward the assholes ? No way ! They poke fun at said government.

World is a sad place.

Or maybe the government is deploying ridiculously outdated socialist ideologies. These people are not assholes. Would you be happy if a 75% tax were levied on your earnings?

If one earns one f**king million and bitches about how much taxes he pays despite the fact that even after paying them he still lives better than 95% of the population, yes, such person is a despicable asshole.

When a sovereign government takes a policy decision, good or bad, and the concerned citizens find a morally dubious way to circumvent decision, what is the reaction of the media and commentators ? They express contempt toward the assholes ? No way ! They poke fun at said government.

World is a sad place.

From what you're saying if both the decisions of the government and the citizens are wrong, we should attribute more blame to the citizens.  Are you saying we should automatically give the government the benefit of the doubt instead of the citizens?

Since people voted for Hollande, whose program included said tax proposal, just three months ago, it can be said that it's the citizens who took the decision already. What's happening is that a small part of the citizens doesn't like it and strives to circumvent the decision.

All 51% of them. Well the economies stuffed anyway so its all immaterial really whether they stay or go. But good for the countries they emigrate to.

[Rhodie]

Here's hoping Hollande's the first of several to implement such a tax, with future incoming left-leaning governments eventually doing so.

Head collides with monitor

[Rhodie]

Hope it hurt.

It's in not as bad a state in as the French economy will be in a years time.

[Rhodie]

Take away their citizenship, prevent them from returning to the country ever again until they pay the taxes they owe with interest. Problem solved.

Good show!  And seize any and all assets they may have in France.  As economic terrorists they should be extraditable anyway.

Uh, economic terrorists?

[Rhodie]

As economic terrorists they should be extraditable anyway.

Uh, economic terrorists?

Yes, they terrorize the masses into a state of slavery, Rhodie.  Far more serious threat than the 'Islamic terrorists'.

Are you actually being serious, or is this just a protracted parody of a leftist poster?

[Rhodie]

I'm starting to like this Rhodie fellow.

White pride worldwide, Vosem.

Funny!!!!

That post was not a racist post, and I will repeat that every time it is brought up.

[Rhodie]

Always to be immediately replaced by other ruling classes, which generally treated the People much, much worse than their predecessors.

So?  Rise up and kill them too.  The only alternative to slavery is death in battle, more or less.

This must be a parody......please!

[Rhodie]

Always to be immediately replaced by other ruling classes, which generally treated the People much, much worse than their predecessors.

So?  Rise up and kill them too.  The only alternative to slavery is death in battle, more or less.

This must be a parody......please!

That's what I said, but then it turned out that Sean Hannity was actually a real person.

True enough.

[Rhodie]

I think you'll agree with me in saying that the idea of a Revolution in the US or most other Western countries is 'beyond the horizon', that is, very obviously not happening any time soon, and that they have no reason to fear the guillotine. Thus such a compromise has no potential benefit for ... 'ruling class'.

You're quite right!  The slaves are well under control, and there is little hope.  However in theory it is possible the controllers could be hurt in some way, some day.  After all the fact remains that there have been revolutions, and ruling classes have been slaughtered/forced into exile before.

Always to be immediately replaced by other ruling classes, which generally treated the People much, much worse than their predecessors. Also, not sure what it has to do with the topic at hand, but for some reason I feel the need to mention that several of my ancestors fought for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.

I hope the two aren't connected, alternate timeline without red victory in Russia would be a very bleak one for the world.

I'd have to agree with you that the Russian Civil War was one of those incidences where the communists were on the side of good, on the basis that communism is better than fascism. Obviously capitalism is much better than any form of communism (I know you disagree with your theory that nobody wanted to leave the USSR).

I don't think that's what I implied, I said less people wanted to leave "communist" USSR than "capitalist" Russia.

Except Tsarist Russia wasn't really capitalist.