Rich people aren't the problem, the problem is that there aren't enough rich people. Managing a country has nothing to do with managing a company. Politicians shouldn't be exchanged with entrepreneurs but for people through referendums. Asia was the future 20 years ago, now it is the Indian Ocean. Country shouldn't invest in crypto-currencies but build strong currencies. Crypto-currencies are interesting because they aren't manipulated by states. Immigration isn't a chance if you export the highly educated and import the uneducated. The French Fifth Republic shouldn't be changed to take people into account because it has referendum built in. Debt is delayed taxing and anti-democratic as people who will pay are too young to vote; a true democracy has no debt. If a country default and doesn't pay its debt, no one will borrow to it and the standard of living will drop. Printing money isn't creating value, printing diploma isn't creating smart people. Public debt belongs to the state while assets belongs to the people, if someone wants to repay public debt with private assets than he is against property rights. Civil servants are a burden for the economy. Impoverishment starts slow than goes really fast. The UK was a great power until 1977 where high debts led to an IMF bailout followed by Margaret Thatcher's policies. Living with debt means living by stealing; debt is theft. France has been loosing its skilled workers for decades because it can't stop stealing from them. Every euro taxed is a euro the entrepreneur can't reinvest. Taxation should be taxed based on risk taking: the civil servant should be taxed more than the employee who should be taxed more than the entrepreneur. By creating poverty, the state then buys people's vote by helping them. You can't say no to the one who subsidizes you, or can you? The goal of life isn't to make a lot of money but to make enough money to buy your freedom: money is freedom. Unemployment insurance pushes people into unemployment, so does taxing work. Cuba is poor and Hong Kong is rich, the former is socialist and the latter is capitalist. Every country should be like Switzerland where people can vote on everything and politicians aren't famous. Freedom has become forbidden and EU is the new USSR. 80% of people want to work hard but have to pay for 20% of lazy people, even amongst migrants. The first duty of the state is to provide safety to its citizen and French people aren't safe nowadays. A society is fair if poor working people standard of living increases over time but French socialism only makes the rich richer while making the poor poorer. Thomas Sowell said that the number of very poor people isn't an issue as long as the people aren't the same over time, meaning that it is possible to get out of poverty. What you subsidize proliferates. Employment taxes are taxes on the less fortunate. Civil servants shouldn't be able to become politicians unless they quit forever to introduce risk and reduce the positive skew toward civil servants, which is a rule in every democracy but France. Not being a sheep allows you to think for yourself and invest in capital markets by thinking at profitability instead of ideology. France does not realize the speed of its decline. A country always has an army on its soil, either his or its neighbor's. As the US army will withdraw from the EU in the next decade for economic reasons, which army will replace it?
Charles Gave