It’s more or less the same story every time: tax the wealthy, stop wasting ever more money on subsidies to large companies, stop attacking social security nets, spend money on public services (education, justice, health, etc), etc
It’s also a show of support for the highschool and student protests, and against far-right sentiments
Well, there’s always a trade-off, and rarely a free lunch.
Reducing subsidies from large companies makes them less competitive against foreign companies, although I’m sure you can find at least some subsidies to cut.
Putting money to social services is often financed with debt, as the amounts needed cannot certainly be taken from corporate subsidies. The problem is, France is already deep in debt and the rates are high. Having France default would really hurt everyone in the EU and could cause a domino effect. I know this is not something Lemmy wants to hear, but maybe you need to.
against far-right sentiments
I hope they also show this in the presidential election. A fascist France would also be a terrible outcome for Europe.
I don’t know the French political scene enough to comment on this, but yes, sounds like politicians everywhere.
But even then there’s a problem. Imagine a politician cuts half their salary. If that story doesn’t make it to news, or people forget about it after 2 weeks, they lost half their salary for absolutely no gain. Leading by example can be difficult, if you don’t have the attention of the people.
It’s more or less the same story every time: tax the wealthy, stop wasting ever more money on subsidies to large companies, stop attacking social security nets, spend money on public services (education, justice, health, etc), etc
It’s also a show of support for the highschool and student protests, and against far-right sentiments
Well, there’s always a trade-off, and rarely a free lunch.
Reducing subsidies from large companies makes them less competitive against foreign companies, although I’m sure you can find at least some subsidies to cut.
Putting money to social services is often financed with debt, as the amounts needed cannot certainly be taken from corporate subsidies. The problem is, France is already deep in debt and the rates are high. Having France default would really hurt everyone in the EU and could cause a domino effect. I know this is not something Lemmy wants to hear, but maybe you need to.
I hope they also show this in the presidential election. A fascist France would also be a terrible outcome for Europe.
And an other problem is that they won’t think of showing the exemple.
All the effort for us, while they won’t consider cutting off one cent to thier own salaries or advantages.
I don’t know the French political scene enough to comment on this, but yes, sounds like politicians everywhere.
But even then there’s a problem. Imagine a politician cuts half their salary. If that story doesn’t make it to news, or people forget about it after 2 weeks, they lost half their salary for absolutely no gain. Leading by example can be difficult, if you don’t have the attention of the people.