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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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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: FRANCE: PERFECT
Date: 07/09/24 3:48 PM
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dailymail.co.uk - France faces immediate financial crisis weeks Olympics Macrons disastrous election minister warns victorious h

Le grand escape! Panicking French elite bombard wealth managers with enquiries about moving to Italy and Switzerland amid growing fury over victorious hard-left's plans for 90% tax on rich and huge spending increases

Yup!
If I'm Giorgia Meloni, I'm building huge billboards right across the border in Italy aimed at wealthy French: Move here and we won't mess with you!

The hard-left alliance plans a huge spending spree that would deliver a major boost to minimum wage and public sector pay, reduce the pension age from 64 to 60 and freeze prices of essential goods - measures it claims will cost some 150 billion over three years.

But Macron's camp warned it could cost as much as 300 billion and will entail the scrapping of tax breaks and credits for companies as well as soaring income tax.

Ministers have also warned against such a spending spree given that France is already grappling with a budget deficit of 5.5% of GDP.

They won't listen, and they won't learn.
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