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Global Financial Crisis: Please Tax Us, France's Super-Rich Tell Government

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First Posted: 08/23/11 12:13 PM ET Updated: 10/24/11 06:12 AM ET

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Some of France's richest people, including the billionaire heiress of L'Oreal SA and the head of oil major Total SA, urged the government to tax them more to help solve the country's financial problems.

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Some of France's richest people, including the billionaire heiress of L'Oreal SA and the head of oil major Total SA, urged the government to tax them more to help solve the country's financial problem...
Some of France's richest people, including the billionaire heiress of L'Oreal SA and the head of oil major Total SA, urged the government to tax them more to help solve the country's financial problem...
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12:16 PM on 08/23/2011
Because the global economy (free market, trickle down economics, supply side economics or whatever you call it) was put in place across the globe world wide in the mid-1980s it has caused the same impact everywhere.
What's so sad is that it has horrifically failed yet those who have benefited ... from the uber wealthy to Big Business want it to continue through austerity programs, cutting wages and benefits, social services and public sector workers.
Taxing the super rich is fine but that's not the problem. We need a whole new global economy. We need a Great Renewal.
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11:32 AM on 08/23/2011
The Patriotic French!
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