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http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/how_socialism_has_doomed_france.html
going awol to avoid taxes - yep, it's not just for the US but people in any country.
In particular, I liked Wills paragraph of the following:
"Most Westerners would say that they accept this assumption in theory, but due to a curious caveat in human nature, many only limitedly accept it in practice. An individual will typically be far more concerned with the preservation of this natural right to "property" when it is his own "property" that is targeted for seizure. The Occupier of Zuccotti Park, for example, may find it a travesty that a homeless man steals his wallet to subsidize a livelihood, but when a homeless man has his livelihood subsidized by someone else's wallet in a transaction brokered by the government, the incident somehow becomes noble and necessary."
going awol to avoid taxes - yep, it's not just for the US but people in any country.
In particular, I liked Wills paragraph of the following:
"Most Westerners would say that they accept this assumption in theory, but due to a curious caveat in human nature, many only limitedly accept it in practice. An individual will typically be far more concerned with the preservation of this natural right to "property" when it is his own "property" that is targeted for seizure. The Occupier of Zuccotti Park, for example, may find it a travesty that a homeless man steals his wallet to subsidize a livelihood, but when a homeless man has his livelihood subsidized by someone else's wallet in a transaction brokered by the government, the incident somehow becomes noble and necessary."
I doubt the French pres can convince his government to go so high, even if it's only for those who make over 500k or so (don't know the current ration of US/Euro but I think it's 2.5 US/1 Euro.