A French controversy?

[JAYDEEJOHN]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/4/brigitte-bardot-1960s-screen-diva-threatens-leave-/
This week France was shocked to learn Depardieu, an Academy Award-winner and pillar of French cinema, had received Russian citizenship after he was called “pathetic” by France’s prime minister in a bust-up over the country’s proposed 75 percent income tax for the super rich.

Not sure what to think here

 

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/4/brigitte-bardot-1960s-screen-diva-threatens-leave-/
This week [strike]France was shocked[/strike]French journalists were shocked to learn Depardieu, an Academy Award-winner and pillar of French cinema, had received Russian citizenship after he was called “pathetic” by France’s prime minister in a bust-up over the country’s proposed 75 percent income tax for the super rich.

Not sure what to think here

Fixed !

Depardieu says Russia is "a great democracy".

Ok, get the hell out and don't come back.
And take Bardot with you, it will be lighter of two morons in France.


I say loudly that G.D. has received more money from the state than he had to pay.
In fact, the film is, in France, an activity particularly protected and subsidized.
The action and public money are the main sources of his fame and his lifestyle.

He even has the nerve to say he pays for more than 40 years for Social Security when he has never "enjoyed" it ...
Selective memory.
maybe he has forgotten his quintuple bypass surgery.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Well, here they say raising taxes wont have people leave.
I cant blame you with him heading to Russia of all places

I really find it strange he goes there, and of course he wont come here, as too high of taxes for him here as well

 

[Reynod]

You could find a conspiracy when looking at your poo in the toilet bowl ...

 

[Reynod]

Someone hyjacket my account and posted the previous.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Back in mid-December, the French media operated along political lines: the left-wing press such as Libération couldn't find strong enough words to describe Depardieu's "desertion" while right-wing publications such as Le Figaro, slightly uneasy at the news, preferred to focus on President François Hollande's punishing taxes which allegedly drove throngs of millionaires to seek tax asylum in more fiscally lenient countries such as Belgium or Britain. Le Figaro stopped short of passing moral judgement though. Others like satirical weekly Charlie hebdo, preferred irony. Its cover featured a cartoon of the rather rotund-looking Depardieu in front of a Belgian flag with the headline: "Can Belgium take the world's entire load of cholesterol?" Ouch.

Quickly though, it became quite clear that Depardieu was not treated in the same way as other famous French tax exiles. French actor Alain Delon is a Swiss resident as is crooner-rocker Johnny Halliday, and many other French stars and sportsmen ensure they reside for under six months in France in order to escape being taxed here on their income and capital. Their move has hardly ever been commented on. And they certainly never had to suffer the same infamy.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/opinion/france-depardieu-poirier/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

So, those saying that raising taxes to extremity on the rich wont have an effect, just look here, as many have left France, not just Depardieu.
It only makes sense, when you lean on a certain type of person, lean too hard, and they find alternative ways of coping