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Billionaires rushed to offer funds to rebuild Notre Dame. But in the context of Macron's policies – tax cuts for businesses, austerity for the masses – there has been an understandable backlash 1/ washingtonpost.com/world/europe/b…
Macron, of whom so much was hoped, has turned out to be the Howard Schultz of France – obsessed with debt and the need for austerity, plus a belief that taxing the rich is inconceivable, long after the economic evidence has refuted all of this 2/
When people ask me what ails the French economy, I always answer hypochondria. Too many people in France believe the constant propaganda about how their welfare state is unsustainable. In fact, France was doing fine until the austerity era came along 3/
