Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why Are the French Striking Again?" video.

  1. They're part of the public sector.
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  2. They already tried that in 2015 only to end chasing out their best and brightest.
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  3. While living off of money taxed from the private sector both bosses and workers alike.
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  4. Because they're scared of LePen.
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  5. ,< if like most of europe you have a post-war babyboom about to enter into the elderly-care stage of their lives, raising the retirement age to keep more employed, whilst raising taxfunds to pay for said care, appears economically sound.> But it's not economically sound as France has all but completely run out of people to tax. They already tried to "tax the rich" in 2015 only end up scrapping it didn't generate enough revenue and caused a brain-drain of its best and brightest.
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  6. As in its former colonies in Western Africa?
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  7. Pretty much.
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  8. There's nothing failed about austerity as austerity is an inevitable consequence of failed economic policy. not based on what is sustainable but what appeases the ever-gullible public in the immediate.
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  9. Yet in communist regimes, unions are outlawed.
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  10. Welfare states have a way of making people that.
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  11.  @Emanon...  And the world's highest household debt.
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  12. In response to France having too many people in need and not enough people working and contributing threatening to do social democracy in.
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