CALDEIRÃO DE BOLSA

Muffin Escreveu:Pata, aparentemente não é isso que dizem os números...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0 ... =Body&_r=0

E apesar disso, um link para o maravilloso pensamento desse grande estadista que governa a França, e que é comum a tantos caldeireiros...
http://fsaraceno.wordpress.com/2014/01/ ... -hollande/

The Fall of France

By Janine di Giovanni / January 03 2014 11:08 AM

Paris
Sky-high taxes and overprotective labor laws are driving out the country's best and brightest. REUTERS/Remy de la Mauviniere/Pool





It’s a stretch, but what is happening today in France is being compared to the revocation of 1685. In that year, Louis XIV, the Sun King who built the Palace of Versailles, revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had protected French Protestants – the Huguenots. Trying to unite his kingdom by a common religion, the king closed churches and persecuted the Huguenots. As a result, nearly 700,000 of them fled France, seeking asylum in England, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and other countries.

The Huguenots, nearly a million strong before 1685, were thought of as the worker bees of France. They left without money, but took with them their many and various skills. They left France with a noticeable brain drain.

Since the arrival of Socialist President François Hollande in 2012, income tax and social security contributions in France have skyrocketed. The top tax rate is 75 percent, and a great many pay in excess of 70 percent.

As a result, there has been a frantic bolt for the border by the very people who create economic growth – business leaders, innovators, creative thinkers, and top executives. They are all leaving France to develop their talents elsewhere.

And it’s a tragedy for such a historically rich country. As they say, the problem with the French is they have no word for entrepreneur. Where is the Richard Branson of France? Where is the Bill Gates?

“Do you see that man in the corner? I’m going to kill him. He’s ruined my life!”

This angry outburst came from a lawyer friend who is leaving France to move to Britain to escape the 70 percent tax he pays. He says he is working like a dog for nothing – to hand out money to the profligate state. The man he was pointing to, in a swanky Japanese restaurant in the Sixth Arrondissement, is Pierre Moscovici, the much-loathed minister of finance. Moscovici was looking very happy with himself. Does he realize Rome is burning?

Granted, there is much to be grateful for in France. An economy that boasts successful infrastructure such as its high-speed rail service, the TGV, and Airbus, as well as international businesses like the luxury goods conglomerate LMVH, all of which define French excellence. It has the best agricultural industry in Europe. Its tourism industry is one of the best in the world.

But the past two years have seen a steady, noticeable decline in France. There is a grayness that the heavy hand of socialism casts. It is increasingly difficult to start a small business when you cannot fire useless employees and hire fresh new talent. Like the Huguenots, young graduates see no future and plan their escape to London.

The official unemployment figure is more than 3 million; unofficially it’s more like 5 million. The cost of everyday living is astronomical. Paris now beats London as one of the world’s most expensive cities. A half liter of milk in Paris, for instance, costs nearly $4 – the price of a gallon in an American store.

Part of this is the fault of the suffocating nanny state. Ten years ago this week, I left my home in London for a new life in Paris. Having married a Frenchman and expecting our child, I was happily trading in my flat in Notting Hill for one on the Luxembourg Gardens.

At that time, prices were such that I could trade a gritty but charming single-girl London flat for a broken-down family apartment in the center of Paris. Then prices began to steadily climb. With the end of the reign of Gaullist (conservative) Nicolas Sarkozy (the French hated his flashy bling-bling approach) the French ushered in the rotund, staid Hollande.

Almost immediately, taxes began to rise.

I did not mind, initially, paying higher taxes than in Britain in exchange for excellent health care, and for masterful state-subsidized schools like the one my son attends (L’Ecole Alsacienne – founded by some of the few remaining Huguenots at the end of the 19th century).

As a new mother, I was surprised at the many state benefits to be had if you filled out all the forms: Diapers were free; nannies were tax-deductible; free nurseries existed in every neighborhood. State social workers arrived at my door to help me “organize my nursery.” My son’s school lunch consists of three courses, plus a cheese plate.

But some of it is pure waste. The French state also paid for all new mothers, including me, to see a physical therapist twice a week to get our stomachs toned again. Essentially it was seen as a baby-making opportunity (your husband is not going to touch you if you still have your baby fat – how very French!) after World War I, when so many young men were killed in the trenches.

When I began to look around, I saw people taking wild advantage of the system. I had friends who belonged to trade unions, which allowed them to take entire summers off and collect 55 percent unemployment pay. From the time he was an able-bodied 30-year-old, a cameraman friend worked five months a year and spent the remaining seven months collecting state subsidies from the comfort of his house in the south of France.

Another banker friend spent her three-month paid maternity leave sailing around Guadeloupe – as it is part of France, she continued to receive all the benefits.

Yet another banker friend got fired, then took off nearly three years to find a new job, because the state was paying her so long as she had no job. “Why not? I deserve it,” she said when I questioned her. “I paid my benefits into the system.” Hers is an attitude widely shared.

When you retire, you are well cared for. There are 36 special retirement regimes – which means, for example, a female hospital worker or a train driver can retire earlier than those in the private sector because of their “harsh working conditions,” even though they can never be fired.

But all this handing out of money left the state bankrupt.

Also, France, being a nation of navel-gazers à la Jean-Paul Sartre, refuses to look outward, toward the global village. Who cares about the BRICS – the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – when we have Paris? It is a tunnel-vision philosophy that will kill France.

At the World Economic Forum each year at Davos, France is always noticeably underrepresented. Last year, one junior minister, Fleur Pellegrin, came because, apparently, she is the only fluent English speaker in the government. “The French don’t like to speak English,” one of her aides admitted wearily. “So they don’t like to come to Davos.”

The most brilliant minds of France are escaping to London, Brussels, and New York rather than stultify at home. Walk down a street in South Kensington – the new Sixth Arrondissement of London – and try not to hear French spoken. The French lycee there has a long waiting list for French children whose families have emigrated.

I grimly listen to my French friends on this topic.

From a senior United Nations official who is now based in Africa: “The best thinkers in France have left the country. What is now left is mediocrity.”

From a chief legal counsel at a major French company: “France is dying a slow death. Socialism is killing it. It’s like a rich old family being unable to give up the servants. Think Downton Abbey.”

From a French publisher: “In the past 10 years, the global village has become a reality. The world economy has become so important that a nation-state can no longer play the role that it did 10 years ago. The French have not woken up to that.”

To wake up, France has to rid itself of the old guard, and reinvent itself.

François Hollande made his first trip to China only when he became head of state in 2012 – and he’s 58 years old. The government is so inward looking and the state fonctionnaires who run it are so divorced from reality that it has become a country in denial.

This is partly the fault of the education system, Les Grandes Ecoles – the essential training ground for elite civil servants. Graduates like Hollande; his ex-wife, Segolene Royal, who was the Socialist presidential candidate in 2007; former president Jacques Chirac; and almost all former prime ministers since 1958 still think of France as a superpower. The sad truth is, France is closer to Spain or Italy these days than to the U.K. or Germany.

There are some business visionaries, like Christophe de Margerie, the CEO of multinational oil and gas company Total, who speaks the Queen’s English and spends much of his time working on deals outside of France. But de Margerie is rare.

I love my adopted country. And I don’t want to leave. I want my son to finish his French education, and I don’t want him to run away to work on Wall Street or in the City of London (Britain’s financial district) but to stay and try to build a better France.

To do that, however, politicians like Hollande have to let the people breathe. Creativity and prosperity can only come about when citizens can build, create, and thrive.

François Hollande impõe taxa de 75% sobre salários superiores a um milhão de euros.

O presidente francês François Hollande recebeu finalmente luz verde do Tribunal Constitucional para taxar os ricos com uma taxa de 75% este ano e no próximo.

De acordo com a proposta, as empresas terão de pagar uma taxa de 50% nos salários superiores a um milhão de euros. Combinando esta taxa com outros impostos e contribuições sociais, a taxa chegará aos 75% dos salários, afirmou o tribunal, na decisão anunciada hoje.

“As empresas que pagarem remunerações acima de um milhão de euros serão chamadas a fazer uma contribuição de solidariedade nas remunerações pagas em 2013 e 2014”, pode ler-se numa nota publicada pelo Ministério da Economia citada pela Bloomberg.

A taxa de 75% sobre os ricos é uma batalha antiga de François Hollande que a anunciou em Fevereiro de 2012 durante a campanha eleitoral. Contudo, a primeira proposta foi chumbada pelo tribunal constitucional porque se aplicava sobre os indivíduos e não sobre o agregado familiar. O tribunal afirmou que qualquer taxa acima de 66% seria considerada confiscatória.

Hollande decidiu assim recuperar o plano este ano aplicando-o a salários e sendo pago pelos empregadores e não pelos contribuintes singulares.

Pata-Hari Escreveu:... e onde uma grande percentagem da população vive só e apenas com o objectivo de receber subsídios de desemprego entre outros subsídios.

Pata-Hari Escreveu:

Gérard Depardieu renuncia ao passaporte francês

"Todos aqueles que fugiram da França não foram insultados como eu fui", disse o ator francês, lamentando as críticas à sua decisão de ir para a Bélgica devido aos impostos.






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O ator já colocou à venda a sua histórica mansão em Paris

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O ator Gérard Depardieu afirmou sentir-se "insultado" com as críticas sobre a sua decisão de ir para a Bélgica por causa dos impostos em França e anunciou hoje que vai renunciar ao passaporte francês.

O ator, 63 anos, fez o anúncio numa carta aberta dirigida ao primeiro-ministro, Jean-Marc Ayrault, publicado pelo "Journal du dimanche": 'Não peço para ser aceite, peço pelo menos para ser respeitado!"

No início desta semana, o primeiro-ministro francês descreveu a decisão de Gérard Depardieu de deixar a França como "patética" e "pouco patriótica".

"Todos aqueles que fugiram da França não foram insultados como eu fui", replicou Depardieu, na mesma missiva, citada pela agência noticiosa francesa AFP.

Mansão em Paris à venda


Afirmando que sempre pagou os seus impostos, Depardieu deixou uma pergunta ao primeiro-ministro: "Quem é você para me julgar desta maneira?" "Vou devolver-lhe o meu passaporte e a segurança social que nunca usei.Não somos mais o mesmo país, sou um verdadeiro europeu, um cidadão do mundo, como o meu pai sempre me ensinou", concluiu Depardieu.

Agentes imobiliários indicaram na quinta-feira que o ator francês colocou à venda a sua histórica mansão em Paris, estimando-se que o tenha feito por uma verba de 50 milhões de euros.

Depardieu juntou-se a um grupo de franceses abastados que decidiu mudar-se para a Bélgica na sequência do aumento de impostos para os mais ricos em França, proposto pelo Presidente François Hollande.


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Gérard Depardieu renuncia ao passaporte francês

"Todos aqueles que fugiram da França não foram insultados como eu fui", disse o ator francês, lamentando as críticas à sua decisão de ir para a Bélgica devido aos impostos.


O ator já colocou à venda a sua histórica mansão em Paris

Reuters


O ator Gérard Depardieu afirmou sentir-se "insultado" com as críticas sobre a sua decisão de ir para a Bélgica por causa dos impostos em França e anunciou hoje que vai renunciar ao passaporte francês.

O ator, 63 anos, fez o anúncio numa carta aberta dirigida ao primeiro-ministro, Jean-Marc Ayrault, publicado pelo "Journal du dimanche": 'Não peço para ser aceite, peço pelo menos para ser respeitado!"

No início desta semana, o primeiro-ministro francês descreveu a decisão de Gérard Depardieu de deixar a França como "patética" e "pouco patriótica".

"Todos aqueles que fugiram da França não foram insultados como eu fui", replicou Depardieu, na mesma missiva, citada pela agência noticiosa francesa AFP.

Mansão em Paris à venda


Afirmando que sempre pagou os seus impostos, Depardieu deixou uma pergunta ao primeiro-ministro: "Quem é você para me julgar desta maneira?" "Vou devolver-lhe o meu passaporte e a segurança social que nunca usei.Não somos mais o mesmo país, sou um verdadeiro europeu, um cidadão do mundo, como o meu pai sempre me ensinou", concluiu Depardieu.

Agentes imobiliários indicaram na quinta-feira que o ator francês colocou à venda a sua histórica mansão em Paris, estimando-se que o tenha feito por uma verba de 50 milhões de euros.

Depardieu juntou-se a um grupo de franceses abastados que decidiu mudar-se para a Bélgica na sequência do aumento de impostos para os mais ricos em França, proposto pelo Presidente François Hollande.


Ler mais: http://expresso.sapo.pt/gerard-depardie ... z2FE9jjSr1

Socialists Denounce Gérard Depardieu for Leaving France
By SCOTT SAYARE
Published: December 12, 2012
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PARIS — Gérard Depardieu, one of France’s best-known actors, has been accused by the country’s Socialist government of lacking patriotism after he moved to Belgium apparently in a bid to avoid the taxes for which France is also renowned.

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Mr. Depardieu’s departure for Néchin, a village just over the border, has drawn mockery and outrage from politicians and the news media at a time of economic belt-tightening, stagnating growth and rising taxes. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault weighed in, calling Mr. Depardieu’s choice “rather pathetic.”

“He’s a great star, everyone loves him as an artist,” Mr. Ayrault told the France 2 television channel on Wednesday, but “to pay a tax is an act of solidarity, a patriotic act.”

Mr. Depardieu, 63, is among a handful of celebrities and wealthy business executives who have left France since the May election of President François Hollande, a Socialist.

To reduce the budget deficit and the country’s debt, Mr. Hollande has put in place a 75 percent marginal tax rate for incomes above 1 million euros, or $1.3 million — a largely symbolic measure that will affect only a few thousand individuals, he has said — and has announced additional taxes that are expected to raise 20 billion euros next year.

While Mr. Depardieu has not commented publicly about what led to his move, it is widely suspected that he was attracted more by the Belgian tax code than, say, the weather. (Belgium, wedged between France and the Netherlands, is less sunny and warm than soggy and gray.) Residents there pay no wealth tax and no capital gains tax on stock sales. In France, residents are required to pay a 0.25 percent wealth tax on assets valued at more than 1.3 million euros; those with more than 3 million euros in assets pay twice that.

Mr. Depardieu will by no means be the only Frenchman in Néchin, where he has reportedly bought a home.

Néchin’s mayor, Daniel Senesael, told the French news media that 27 percent of residents are French.

Bernard Arnault, the billionaire chief executive of the luxury group LVMH, was pilloried in the news media in September when it was revealed that he had requested Belgian citizenship.

Mr. Arnault said the request was not for tax purposes, but the left-leaning newspaper Libération featured a front-page headline that read, in polite translation, “Beat it, rich jerk!” (LVMH promptly pulled its advertising from the newspaper and Mr. Arnault filed a lawsuit charging the paper with public insult.)

On Tuesday, the newspaper featured Mr. Depardieu on its front page, along with an editorial deploring his “absence of moral sense” and insisting that the flight of the rich represents “a danger for democracy and solidarity.”

For months there have been reports of wealthy French people taking up residence outside the country, particularly in London, whose mayor, Boris Johnson, has called Mr. Hollande’s tax plan “tyranny.”

French celebrities have left the country for tax reasons for years, though, and it is not altogether clear how politicians and the news media select the ones they vilify, or how countries choose who among them is worthy of citizenship.

The singer Johnny Hallyday, a major French star whose popularity has lasted for decades, has been based in Switzerland for years and once requested Belgian citizenship. He still plays to sellout crowds in France. The actor Alain Delon lives in Switzerland as well, but serves in the nation of his birth as the head of the jury for the Miss France competition.

Appearing on a popular television talk show this week, Mr. Delon was asked for an assessment of Mr. Depardieu’s choice. He smiled and said, “Let’s be serious, I can’t allow myself to make a judgment.”

Everyone laughed.

Celsius Escreveu:De facto a França caminha a passos( ) largos para o abismo.

Aumento brutal da carga fiscal redundará em diminuição brutal da receita fiscal.

Celsius Escreveu:De facto a França caminha a passos( ) largos para o abismo.

Aumento brutal da carga fiscal redundará em diminuição brutal da receita fiscal.

Pata-Hari Escreveu:Patético idiota. Nunca ouviu a história da galinha dos ovos de ouro. Não entende que os maravilhosos benefícios sociais tornam estar-se desempregado mais interessante economicamente do que estar empregado. E não entendeu que obrigar o capital a pagar por quem não quer trabalhar, simplesmente faz o capital fugir.

Continuo a dizer que me choca que o mercado não esteja a ver o que se está a passar em França.