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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: My moves in France
Date: 07/18/26 10:04 PM
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I asked the net sifter if Macron was a supply sider:

Yes, French President Emmanuel Macron is widely considered a supply-sider.


I don't know who is represented by "widely". Not every decision to change economic and tax policies can be considered in isolation. It's much more complex than that. France has long had policies that strongly favor "proles", extensive protections for employees, making it impossible to fire or lay off anyone. Generous rules for work hours, time off, sick leave etc. Universal health care. On the tax side it's been quite confiscatory. The result has been widely (there goes notorious "widely" again :-) seen as the reason for a stagnant economy. Sometimes you have to make changes because you've over reached in one direction or the other.

As an example of confiscatory tax policy, I have a cousin who inherited two apartments in Paris from his mother. She had practically no other assets. The inheritance tax was so high that he had to sell one of the two apartments to pay the tax.
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