80 Percent of French Back Yellow Vest Citizen Referendum Initiative Proposal | Defend Democracy Press

According to the Yellow Vest movement, the RIC would not be limited to just proposing new laws but would have several other functions including repealing existing laws and referendums on amendments to the French constitution.

8 thoughts on “80 Percent of French Back Yellow Vest Citizen Referendum Initiative Proposal | Defend Democracy Press

  1. I have read some of what the ‘yellow vests’ are protesting over and one of the things they want is for France to stop demanding that African countries continue to pay ‘slave’ taxes to France. Of course, France tries to ‘pretty’ it up by calling it a ‘colonial’ tax’. What I don’t get is why those African countries would continue to pay France for ‘colonizing’ them. That is beyond ludicrous! As poor as many African countries are depicted, and not to mention, their serious lack of medical facilities, medicine, food and decent infrastructure, why would they put paying France, a colonial tax first over setting to rights, the absolute wrongs that go on on a daily basis in those countries? Have those leaders over there no sense at all?

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        • Because without it they would not have support for their currency and would not be able to trade with other nations. They would also be such a small currency that they would be open to currency speculation to an extent that would make life intolerable for their citizens. Finally French banks have been safe for 200 years so it’s not a bad place to put foreign reserves.

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    • A lot of what happens in Africa is a real mystery to me, Shelby. A big problem, according to several documentaries I have seen, is that the resource-rich African countries have no effective tax structure. The men who set themselves up as leaders sell the resources to Western countries dirt-cheap but still make enough to run a bare bones government and build themselves a few palaces. The slave tax they pay to France gives them the right to call on the French military to maintain order. The leaders reckon if they don’t charge taxes they have no accountability to the people they rule – but it’s common for their subjects to think differently and become a bit restive at times.

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      • Mostly correct. Wrong that France army can be called upon. And yes a low tax base is true but it is same for all low developed countries where there is not a traditional cash/banking culture. Most of these countries have economies structured similarly to European nations in the 17th century and they have similar tax and inequality structures as “we” had back then. Actually most are better than we were at the same stage of development.

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