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Old 05-06-2012, 06:20 PM   #6
GunMaster357
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Originally Posted by Sundae View Post
On the radio today there was an interview with a French woman (sorry - I missed the start; presumably a journalist) suggesting that the rich French right wing might move to Britain. She actually laughed. She said that conditions would have to be far more favourable to make a French person give up his country.
Don't be sure of that... Here's a nice incentive.

François Hollande (the new president) has a project to tax heavily the rich.

If you manage to win more than a million euros par annum...

it'll be taxed at 75%...

I recently worked in a company making software for the real estate business.

We heard about French realtors who were asked to find big nice properties in Belgium, Luxembourg, etc.
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