https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2013/10/30/frances-comedy-of-taxational-errors-continues-as-french-revolt-against-eco-tax/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 15:07:32 -0400<![CDATA[Seeing as how they elected an honest-to-goodness Socialist parliamentary majority and president last year, I&#8217;m not exactly sure what it is that France thought they were in for &#8212; but these days, it isn&#8217;t merely French soccer teams publicly displaying their displeasure with the ultra-high tax policies of Francois Hollande and his ministers. Hollande is deeply, historically unpopular, and the government needs to still more cash in their coffers to have any hope of meeting their deficit-reduction targets &#8212; but the new taxes they&#8217;ve been cooking up recently combined with other scheduled tax increases are not going over well.]]>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:41:06 -0400<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2013/10/30/frances-comedy-of-taxational-errors-continues-as-french-revolt-against-eco-tax-n185473