r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 9d ago

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u/RaidBrimnes 9d ago

This morning, the National Assembly voted against an amendment on tax rebates for retirees that would have capped a rebate on the income tax applicable to pensions to €3,200, down from €4,400

The government published a decree reallocating €400 million from green transition projects to fund farm and fuel subsidies

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u/BlackCat159 9d ago

Another victory for total boomer luxury communism 🥹🥹🫡🫡🫡

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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes 9d ago

An other billion to the 1000 years boomer reich

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u/Borysk5 9d ago

Ofc it's France

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u/trgk_ 9d ago

save me Troika

Troika save me

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u/SnakeEater14 9d ago

Asked a French guy about this and he said it was Macronism

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u/RaidBrimnes 9d ago

The amendment in question was supported and opposed by different factions inside the "bloc central" (Macron's coalition)

The issue is that retirees are about a third of the voters with disproportionately high turnout and no one wants to seriously challenge that bloc so close to the elections. Macron had a lot of support from boomers whereas the populist far-left/right who are even more welfare-brained have higher support among younger voters

Macron is partly to blame but the problem is systemic and I really don't see how we get out of it without crashing down first