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France in chaos; macron mulling state of emergency amid "yellow vest" protests; "all options" considered
Two items . . .
[1] “On Saturday riot police were overwhelmed as protesters embarked on their destructive crime spree.”
The “yellow vest” protests have peacefully shut down part of the French economy.
Whenever this happens, governments create a pretext for marshal law by paying black-clad, mask-wearing Antifa types to go on a vandalism spree, like the French government did yesterday (Sat. 1 Dec 2018).
Government-paid Antifa vandals are separate from the actual protesters. Their government-sponsored violence allows the government to declare the entire protest “violent” so the government can shut it all down.
[2] Macron has repeatedly imposed more and more taxes on fuel (but not on kerosene-based jet fuel, which creates the most pollution of all).
Macron’s fuel taxes will go up again in Jan 2019, and again in mid-2019, again in Jan 2020, and again in mid-2020.
Macron claims that these neoliberal attacks on consumers are necessary in order to raise revenue for “environmental measures.” And yet, according to Reuters, only 20% of the fuel tax revenue goes to environmental issues. The other 80% goes to the general fund.
See
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-france-protests/frances-macron-learns-the-hard-way-green-taxes-carry-political-risks-idUSKBN1O10AQ
The French government cannot create its spending money (euros) out of thin air. Since France has had a trade deficit for more than ten years, France must borrow its euros from bankers. Therefore the revenue from Macron’s repeated tax increases is used not for “environmental issues,” but to pay on debts to the bankers.
This is classic neoliberalism.
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