XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: abelard3@abelard.org   
      
   On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:23:19 +0000, DVH  wrote:   
      
   >On 30/01/2014 08:03, abelard wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:11:45 +0000, DVH  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Foreign direct investment in France plunged by 77% in 2013, following a   
   >>> plummet of 35% the year before.   
   >>>   
   >>> Gone are the days when France was a magnet for foreign firms thanks to a   
   >>> welcoming tax structure. In 2006, it attracted 88 billion euros and was   
   >>> fourth in the world. Now, companies are steering clear, with disastrous   
   >>> results for employment and R&D.   
   >>>   
   >>> Thanks to Hollande's hatred of business, the country has tumbled out of   
   >>> the top 20 destinations for overseas business, with investments   
   >>> nose-diving to 5 billion euros.   
   >>   
   >> he doesn't hate business...he just wants to bankrupt it so's   
   >>      he can take it over and run it properly   
   >   
   >Properly means fairly.   
   >   
   >Workers are at a disadvantage to those who own capital. The state must   
   >intervene by cutting the legs off the latter.   
   >   
   >"Thomas Piketty’s   
      
   an appropriate name   
      
   > new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,”   
   >described by one French newspaper as a “a political and theoretical   
   >bulldozer,” defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening   
   >inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism.   
      
   it is...if there is no constraint or regulation...   
      
   >Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, does not stop   
   >there. He contends that capitalism’s inherent dynamic propels powerful   
   >forces that threaten democratic societies.   
   >   
   >Capitalism, according to Piketty, confronts both modern and modernizing   
   >countries with a dilemma: entrepreneurs become increasingly dominant   
   >over those who own only their own labor. In Piketty’s view, while   
   >emerging economies can defeat this logic in the near term, in the long   
   >run, “when pay setters set their own pay, there’s no limit,” unless   
   >“confiscatory tax rates” are imposed.   
      
   it is essential that 'modern societies' come to terms with   
       redistribution and stop confusing it with the mad cult of   
       socialism...   
   a citizen's wage is the only way forward i can see...   
      
   probably allied with franchise by examination...   
      
   you have a growing class of supposed adults by age who   
      in reality remain as psychological children...   
   the crazy structure of 'benefits' have left very bad incentives   
      to grow that class   
      
   >>> The result of Hollande's left-wing detruction of French business can be   
   >>> seen and heard on the streets of London and is summed up in one amazing   
   >>> fact: you're statistically more likely to overhear somebody talking   
   >>> about snails than jellied eels.   
   >>>   
   >>> 400,000 French have quit the high-tax hell of France and are living in   
   >>> London. An artefact of globalisation? Hardly: only 39,000 Brits have   
   >>> travelled in the opposite direction.   
   >>   
   >> the red eds will finish what bliar and the clown started, and fix it   
   >>      so's britain will pay the bill for it...ever closer unions   
   >>   
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