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Not Your Daddy's Drum Solo: Larnell Lewis, "The City Lights"

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Danack1/05/2019 7:03:29 am PST

re: #226 MsJ

Yellow vests like the losers in France

Hmm. The people who were protesting in France have quite a few legitimate things to be pissed off about. One of the reasons why those protests were quite widespread was there are many people in France who:

* Work hard, but don’t earn much money due to the general condition of the French economy.

* Bought a diesel car or van that they need to use to get to work, that they had hoped to use for the next ten years.

The changes to tax on diesel have completely screwed these people over. People who don’t live in cities in France have no choice but to use a car to get around, and France is a big sparsely populated country car journeys are quite long compared to England or the coastal regions of the US.

There’s a significant number of people who are really going to struggle to find an extra 400 Euros a year for diesel costs.

In addition these people are being told that they’ll need to get rid of their cars when they get phased out.

In addition, these tax increases on working people come right after some tax cuts for the wealthy.

It is not surprising a significant number of French people are seriously pissed off.