What best symbolizes France’s statist political culture?
Is it bloated public sector that consumes more than half of the economy’s output?- Is it a tax system that is so onerous that households sometimes pay more than 100 percent of their income to government?
- Is it cossetted bureaucrats with cars and drivers who nonetheless still rack up giant taxi expenses?
Those are good examples, to be sure, but I’ve actually already shared an everything-you-need-to-know story dealing with lavish perks for France’s protected bureaucrat class.
But there’s no rule that says I can’t have multiple everything-you-need-to-know anecdotes.
Here’s a story that reveals why France is in trouble. The Wall Street Journalreports that a French presidential candidate is arguing people shouldn’t get upset that he used taxpayer money to give his wife a no-show job because a big chunk of the money then went back to the government because of…
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