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Victory: Macron Permanently Cancels Planned Fuel Tax Hike After Yellow Vest Protests


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2018 Dec 5, 2:54pm   8,137 views  91 comments

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French President Emmanuel Macron has given in to the initial demands of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement and permanently cancelled the proposed increase tax on fuel after a negative reaction to a six-month deferment.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/05/victory-macron-permanently-cancels-planned-fuel-tax-hike-after-yellow-vest-protests/

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1   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Dec 6, 4:45pm  

The NYT in a dark mood on this one:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/macron-yellow-vest-protests.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
"So what if President Macron fails? This is not an easy question. In the uncharted environment created by the collapse of the old French political balances, there is no obvious alternative, no opposition leader prepared to win a snap election, no strong political parties. Whatever happens in the next few days, President Macron will not be able to govern as he did in his first year. “One cannot govern against the people,” his political ally François Bayrou sternly warned him last week."

"Most likely, his reform agenda will need a pause. The hard work still to be done — the reforms of the pension system, of the civil service, of local taxes, of political institutions — will have to wait or be watered down. Curbing public spending will be an even bigger challenge. The Yellow Vests are demanding fewer taxes and more public services. And the crucial equation between ecological transition and social justice will be even harder to solve.

Such a scenario of France reverting to its old woes will do the European Union no good. With Germany absorbed for another year by its domestic political upheavals, the European agenda will be left unattended. This is a cruel dimension of Mr. Macron’s travails: The only leader bold enough to articulate an attractive vision of a renewed European project, he was hung out to dry by those very leaders who had celebrated him. It is difficult to imagine how the pendulum can now swing back: The last bulwark against nationalism is gone. Donald Trump and Italy’s Matteo Salvini may have the last laugh."
2   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Dec 6, 4:52pm  

Macron was elected because he spanned the center and basically took over the 2 traditional parties.
This easy victory was seen as a major success against "populists" but the flaw was always obvious: the neo liberal policies he stands for are still extremely unpopular, and should his popularity be crushed (as it is now), what will then be the recourse? What will be the 2nd "establishment" party that will be there ready to take the relay?

The whole point is that he held the center against fringe populists: communists on one side, nationalists on the other. But that eliminates the usual divide and conquer establishment strategy.

And if France falls, with all southern countries behind it, what will become of Europe, the euro, and Germany then?
Especially when Germany has its own troubles of its own making.
Trump and Italy’s Matteo Salvini may laugh.
3   Booger   2018 Dec 6, 5:47pm  

French President Emmanuel Macron has given in to the initial demands of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement and permanently cancelled the proposed increase tax on fuel after a negative reaction to a six-month deferment.

4   Strategist   2018 Dec 6, 5:51pm  

France proves that violent protests work. If the protesters were in Saudi or Iran, they would all have been shot.
5   RWSGFY   2018 Dec 6, 5:55pm  

Another victim of AGW.
6   Booger   2018 Dec 6, 6:24pm  

Emmanuel Macron Criticizes Climate Change Tax Protesters For Not Using Carbon-Neutral Rioting Methods

https://babylonbee.com/news/emmanuel-macron-criticizes-climate-change-tax-protesters-for-not-using-carbon-neutral-rioting-methods
9   Strategist   2018 Dec 6, 8:53pm  

Booger says


They need a French Trump, not a French Obama.
12   zzyzzx   2018 Dec 7, 9:56am  

When France's government is literally under siege by Glow in the Dark Frogs:

13   NuttBoxer   2018 Dec 7, 10:06am  

That wasn’t too hard, if they keep pushing what else could they get?
14   RWSGFY   2018 Dec 7, 10:23am  

Meantime stupid CA voters vote for gas tax hike.... How does it feel to be bigger pussies than French?
16   zzyzzx   2018 Dec 7, 2:09pm  

Can't wait until high visibility jackets are "racist"
17   Ceffer   2018 Dec 7, 2:09pm  

Is Macron the Ocasio Cortez of Europe?
19   LastMan   2018 Dec 7, 6:08pm  

"On Tuesday, representatives of the Yellow Vest movement said the temporary freeze on the tax proposed by the French prime minister was simply not enough."

The word 'permanent' in the OP title isn't supported by the article.
20   Booger   2018 Dec 8, 6:13am  

LastMan says
"On Tuesday, representatives of the Yellow Vest movement said the temporary freeze on the tax proposed by the French prime minister was simply not enough."

The word 'permanent' in the OP title isn't supported by the article.


The initial offer was for it to be temporary.
24   Booger   2018 Dec 8, 8:35am  

https://nypost.com/2018/12/07/in-france-les-deplorables-strike-back/amp/.

In France, les deplorables strike back.

Their lives are fenced in by an ever-growing skein of nanny-state regulations. Before the fuel tax, there was the unpopular rollback of the speed limit on France’s roads to 80 kilometers (49 miles) per hour from 90 (56). The same week, bureaucrats added dozens of new requirements for vehicles, forcing many cars off the road. Macron’s government offered drivers a $4,500 bonus to buy electric cars: a Marie-Antoinette moment seen as an insult by les déplorables.
26   Tenpoundbass   2018 Dec 8, 11:33am  

There's just no place in this world for Socialist Scumbag Liberals. May he be disemboweled in the public square.
And may Merkle join him.
27   RWSGFY   2018 Dec 8, 12:12pm  

Tenpoundbass says
There's just no place in this world for Socialist Scumbag Liberals.


You mean like these who demand moar gubmint bennies, higher minimal pay and "protection for the migrants" while wearing yellow jackets and burning cars? The original tax revolt has been taken over by pinko fucks.
31   Booger   2018 Dec 9, 10:40am  



"Loi Schiappa pour pedophile" = "Schiappa law for paedophiles" Schiappa is a government official in charge of "equality between men and women", whom somehow is defending the government on TV on everything and anything, and whose approval widely vary. She passed a law, there was a lot of disinformation on it so I don't really know what it does, but it was criticized for (apparently) reducing consenting age. Something like that.

Yes, they legalized child marriage for Muslim pedophilia. There is no age of consent for sex in France anymore.
32   Goran_K   2018 Dec 9, 10:45am  

French Obama and his grandma/wife should step down.
34   Booger   2018 Dec 9, 10:53am  

We really need to air drop copies of the constitution to them when they protest... so they have a solid blueprint to work from.
35   Booger   2018 Dec 9, 10:57am  

Something else that is supposedly a real list:

End of the tax hike on fuel.
Promote the transport of goods by rail.
Tax on marine fuel oil and kerosene.
Monthly minimum wage at 1,300 euros net ($1947 CAD per month after taxes).
Indexing of all wages, pensions and allowances to inflation.
Nationalization of the fuel for home heating and electricity sectors.
More progressive income tax (more marginal tax brackets).
The end of the austerity.
No withholding tax.
Restoring the taxes for the ultra-wealthy.
Same social security system for all workers, including the self-employed.
The pension system must remain in solidarity and therefore socialized.
No retirement pension below 1,200 euros ($1797/month CAD).
Increase of disability allowances.
Retirement at age 60, and a right to early retirement at 55 for workers who have worked a hard manual labour job.
Continuation of the Pajemploi help system until the child is 10 years old.
End of outsourcing of work for French corporations.
Limit the number of fixed-term contracts for large companies, replaced with more full time employment.
Maximum salary fixed at 15,000 euros [monthly] ($22469/month, or maximum annual salary of ~$270,000).
Jobs for the unemployed.
Any elected representative will be entitled to the median national salary.
The popular referendum must enter into the Constitution. Creating a readable and effective site, supervised by an independent control body where people can make a proposal for a law. If this bill obtains 700,000 signatures then this bill will have to be discussed, completed and amended by the National Assembly, which will have the obligation, one year to the day after obtaining the 700,000 signatures, to submit it to the vote of all French.
Return to a seven-year term for the President of the Republic.
End of presidential allowances for life.
Proportional voting system.
Elimination of of the Senate.
Accounting of the protest/blank/none of the above ballots.
Promote small businesses in villages and town centers. Stop the construction of large commercial areas around the big cities that kill the small business. More free parking in city centers.
No further privatization of French infrastructure.
Improved funding for the justice system, the police, the gendarmerie and the army.
All the money earned by highway tolls will be used for the maintenance of motorways and roads in France and road safety.
Immediate closure of private trains, post offices, schools and maternity homes.
Maximum 25 students per class for all ages.
Large corporations (McDonald's, Google, Amazon, Carrefour ...) pay big [taxes], small businesses (artisans, SMEs) pay small [taxes].
Protect the French industry to prohibit outsourcing.
End of the business tax credit. Use this money for the launch of a French hydrogen car industry.
Eliminate credit card fees for merchants.
Lower employers' charges.
Continue exemption of farm diesel.
Improve the lives of the elderly, by banning exploitation and making money off the elderly.
Substantial boosts in mental health fund.
Prohibition of glyphosate.
Immediate end to temporary foreign worker programs.
Plan for improving insulation of housing (help the environment by helping the household).
Rent control. More low-rent housing (especially for students and precarious workers).
Treat the root causes of forced migration.
Fair treatment of asylum seekers . We owe them housing, security, food and education. Work with the UN to have host camps open in many countries around the world, pending the outcome of the asylum application.
Return of unsuccessful asylum seekers to their country of origin.
Real integration policy is implemented. Living in France means becoming French (French language course, French history course and civic education course with certification at the end of the course).
36   Tenpoundbass   2018 Dec 9, 11:11am  

Booger says
Something else that is supposedly a real list:


Yeah that list is after Soros infiltrated and just Commied it up real good.

That's not a list of demands, that's a Communist Manifesto.
37   RWSGFY   2018 Dec 9, 11:20am  

Sorry, but a movement with such a hodgepodge of (often self-contradicting) demands is bound to fail. This is a wrong way to do it.
38   Ceffer   2018 Dec 9, 11:28am  

Are free speech and free shit mutually incompatible?
39   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Dec 9, 12:26pm  

#UPDATE A total of 1,723 people are arrested across France with 1,220 ordered held in custody, during the latest round of "yellow vest" protests, the interior ministry says pic.twitter.com/JZVHIEZ4iP— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 9, 2018




Interesting, French Police were beating the shit out of protesters and in Belgium they were arresting them for wearing leather jackets because it was "Protective Gear".

Good thing this is Europe, or people might complain about the level of force. What IS the Media's definition of police overreaction?
40   Goran_K   2018 Dec 9, 3:01pm  

Ceffer says
Are free speech and free shit mutually incompatible?


That’s pretty accurate. Democrats love giving free shit away as long as you are willing to accept bigger government control in your life.

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