| You forgot jet flights because, you understand, there were no business class seat available on commercial flights at the right time. I thought it was an isolated incident (the random undersecretary who otherwise couldn’t have made it on time for the government’s school book picture), but it appears to not be so isolated [1] [2]. On some random weird "missions" [3] paid €9.000 a month, or life-long supposed "postings", granted at the discretion of the government, such as our dear ambassador to the penguins [4] [5] (lovingly called "ambassador to the poles", although the previous one, "Michel Rocard", a life-long politician, was apparently also known as "Rocky the Penguin"). And that’s just off the top of my head. If we were to focus less on the rather questionable spending, and more on the doubtfully useful, we could cite the public health system, where it seems that more than a third of the money goes to the administrative side, and not actual healthcare workers [6], with a significantly bigger share of bureaucratic employees than most European countries. And I’m pretty sure starving the state of revenue will not curb any of this. It’s not like they’ve shown they were sensible, or acting in good faith. [1] https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2010/03/29/806733-ministre-... [2]: https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/vol-350000-euros-autres-gouve... [3]: https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/06/09/boutin-c... [4]: https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/frais-d-ambassadrice-des-p... [5]: https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/09/18/est-il-vrai-q... [6]: https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/sante-et-pharmacie/a-l-... |