Gerard Depardieu has become the latest rich Frenchman to flee his country and the stinging wealth taxes levied by Francois Hollande, the Socialist President of France.Speaking on Monday, Pierre Moscovici, the French finance minister said, "It's why we hates them, my precious. Hates the tricksy riches!"*
The film star has bought a property in Nechin, a Belgian village near the border with France, which has become a colony for French exiles fleeing President Hollande's tax rate of 75 per cent on all earnings over €1 million.
Elsewhere, the attitude towards successful people was a bit warmer.
At the La Ferme du Chateau restaurant, where Mr Depardieu was sighted, a young female customer told Le Soir that there was "excitement" in the village at the prospect of him moving there.In other news, recent experiments by behavioral biologists suggest that living creatures will attempt to flee uncomfortable or painful environments and move towards food and safety. In socialist France, Obama's White House and Jerry Brown's state capitol offices in Sacramento, they are awaiting confirmation of these controversial findings.
"We want them to come to us when they feel like it," she said.
* - This is a loose translation. My French isn't very good.
2 comments:
You are quoting the wrong person.
I prefer Margaret Thatcher's "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".
Interestingly, in this case the other peoples money are running out on them. ;-)
Only a Frenchman would think moving to Belgium is a step up.
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