| > ... or to the benefit their friends owning private companies. Yup this one in France is really a big problem. The public sector spendings officially represents something like 58.1% of the french GDP (official "Insee" numbers from 2023, for 2022)... France is not far from a planned economy and, unsurprisingly, it's a particularly harsh environment for real small private SMEs (i.e. those without friends at the state) and for entrepreneurs, for they're getting trounced by taxes. And that gigantic state (percentage wise of the GDP, not on the world stage) still cannot prevent days of riots and drug-dealers from ruling the streets (like in the city of Marseille). A deeply corrupt state where public servants are planted so that taxes can grow and, in return, the people don't even get safe streets. But all is fine and well for these corrupt politicians because soon they'll be able to prevent comments such as yours or mine from being read by anyone. |
Marseille's worst neighborhoods are really chill compared to the bad parts of any American city.
The streets are pretty safe.
Your comment is kinda ridiculous, stop watching TV.
Yeah there are lot of taxes, but those taxes come in handy when you can get 2 years of unemployment benefits when starting a company. Or when you know, get a cancer that would cost a few millions to treat.