When you earn a huge amount of money, you have to give an example. There are so many poor people in France that what we need is solidarity. Taxes have to be paid. In France if we have good hospitals, schools, good public services, trains that run on time and good roads, it is thanks to taxes that people pay.

Ségolène Royal,
tax scourge and "deservingly well-off-but-not-rich"
PS presidential candidate,
laying into tax exile Johnny Hallyday
December 23, 2006 (Sunday Herald)

I started my life with nothing, so this is the fruit of my labour after 30 years of professional life.

Ségolène Royal,
tax scourge and "deservingly well-off-but-not-rich"
PS presidential candidate,
defending what's hers
January 18, 2007 (Telegraph)

The Left has a plan for a better world. Your re-distributed wealth and property are part of that plan. Theirs are not.

ROYAL IS ACCUSED OF DODGING TAX ON HER WEALTH

PARIS January 18, 2007 (Telegraph) - Ségolène Royal, the doyenne of the French Left, suffered an embarrassing blow to her image as a presidential candidate yesterday when she was accused of tax dodging.

Faced with taunts about being a "gauche caviar", the Gallic equivalent of a champagne socialist, she denied being rich, instead claiming that she was just "well off".

Reluctantly admitting that they were liable for ISF, the couple confirmed that they owned a flat in the afluent Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, and houses on the Riviera, and in Miss Royal's constituency of Melle, in the Deux-Sèvres départment.

What, we ask, is the more ridiculous, Mlle. Royal's begging off being rich or her apparent embarrassment at being so?

Not only does she part-own three impressive homes with her boyfriend, François Hollande, the Socialist Party chairman, but the couple have set up a real estate company to manage the properties.

This has enabled them to reduce the amount they pay in l'impôt de solidarité sur la fortune (ISF), a notoriously high tax imposed on anyone with assets of more than £500,000.

Mind, Hollande-Royal have not broken any law, they have availed themselves of the law. A law in a body of law that they publicly protest is unjust.

The revelations, which originally emerged on internet sites critical of the hypocritical Left, are particularly embarrassing for Miss Royal because she recently launched a tirade against Johnny Hallyday, the rock star, for moving to Switzerland to avoid high French taxes.

Miss Royal has also pledged to overturn tax cuts imposed since 2002, blocking a law limiting them to 60 per cent of income.

* Rich + plenitude = richitude. For context, see here.

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Bonjour,

"Pave" ferait mieux d' expliquer aux Yanks comment l' administration yank compte financer les 2267 milliards de dollars US (estimation à ce jour de Joseph Stiglitz) de l' expédition coloniale US en Irak ...
Allez vous vendre votre pays aux maoïstes ?
C'est bien parti pour, remarquez…
2/3 du déficit budgétaire US (400 milliards de dollars US) sont actuellement financés par les maoïstes.
Mais à ce compte-là l'indépendance US n'existera plus.
Ah , le PC chinois dictant leur conduite économique aux USA !
Comique !
Mon petit Grouik , j'ai bien peur que vos super profits fondent comme neige au soleil dans des hausses d'impôt vertigineuses...
Et dire que tout cela s'achèvera inévitablement par une déroute ...