Mr Sarkozy is proving to be a true Bushie

[ikojo]

Naturally the NYT, ever the defenders of the rich, write that the tax system is SO burdensome to the French rich that many of them have moved overseas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/world/europe/22france.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

New Leaders Say Pensive French Think Too Much

In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde bluntly advised the French people to abandon their “old national habit.”

“France is a country that thinks,” she told the National Assembly. “There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.”

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Still, Mr. Sarkozy likes to boast that, unlike Mr. Giscard D’Estaing, Mr. Chirac and legions of ministers and senior civil servants, he did not attend France’s finishing school for the political elite, the École Nationale d’Administration. (Only one of his cabinet members is “Enarque,” as the school’s graduates are called, but nine of the 16 either practice law, like Mr. Sarkozy, or studied it.)