{"id":42650,"date":"2019-01-12T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42650"},"modified":"2019-01-12T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:06:36","slug":"macron-no-taxation-without-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42650","title":{"rendered":"Macron \u2013 No taxation without representation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Macron \u2013 No taxation without representation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown without being represented in the British Parliament by their own elected deputies. The slogan of the founding fathers of American democracy at the time was \u201cNo taxation without representation\u201d<\/i>. Nowadays it could be inscribed on the flags of the Yellow Vests, the movement that opposes additional taxation by Macron\u2019s government.<\/strong> The government represents the interests of the Brussels technocrats, i.e. bankers and large corporations, and not those of the French people. Brussels does not allow holes in the state budget, does not tolerate anyone who does not abide by its fiscal guidelines. The French were persuaded that they retained sovereignty, although for years the princes from Brussels (commissioners of the revolution against sovereignty of states \u2013 Timmermans, Juncker and others) have been setting the course for France. Although the French deputies allegedly represent their people in the European Parliament, they are not proposed directly by the people, but by the parties. Most voters have swallowed the bait for years that the parties act in their interests, but even the dimmest dummy gets wise over the years. Voters in the 21st<\/sup> century must not be treated as they were in the 19th<\/sup>: the first cracks in the beautiful image of the handsome president, whom the German media describe as \u201cvisionary\u201d<\/i>, appeared when he reduced property tax on real estate. French citizens could not swallow it. Though the move was supposed to keep money in the country, Macron was denounced by low earners as the \u201cpresident of the rich\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Macron \u2013 No taxation without representation The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95,15342,283,333,6974,379,5377,1257,23287],"class_list":["post-42650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brussels","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-european-parliament","tag-france","tag-gefira","tag-government","tag-representation","tag-taxation","tag-yellow-vest-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42651,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42650\/revisions\/42651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}