[lbo-talk] the right wing in france

[SA]

A quote from ex-prime minister Alain Juppe yesterday, who's usually 
described as one of the French Right's more free-market oriented leading 
politicians. He was the one who tried to push the austerity measures 
that were defeated by the massive 1995 strikes. The "bouclier fiscal" - 
tax shield - was promoted by Sarkozy when he came into office as part of 
his reward-wealth, encourage-entrepreneurship schtick. It's a tax cut 
for the rich that sets a ceiling on an individual's total tax rate. 
Juppe's comments reflect a widespread revolt currently brewing among the 
UMP rank-and-file against this signature Sarkozy policy since the defeat 
in the regional elections.

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/le-bouclier-fiscal-de-plus-en-plus-critique-a-l-ump_859207.html?xtor=RSS-186


> "I think we must ask ourselves some questions about what's called le 
> bouclier fiscal, because things have changed, the [economic] crisis is 
> here," declared the former prime minister on France Info. "Today, 
> there is a small minority of the very rich who keep getting richer," 
> the UMP mayor of Bordeaux said. "It would not shock me if we were to 
> ask the very rich to make an additional effort of solidarity vis-a-vis 
> those who are suffering."