{"id":32464,"date":"2012-12-19T06:26:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32464"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:20:50","slug":"qui-est-jean-galt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32464","title":{"rendered":"Qui Est Jean Galt<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer? “G\u00e9rard Depardieu est Jean Galt<\/a>!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Few Frenchmen are more recognizable at home and abroad than the movie star Gerard Depardieu. Last week, Depardieu caused a great controversy in his native land by moving to Belgium \u2013 partly to avoid the 75 percent income tax on the wealthy that was introduced by the socialist President of France,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What was it that Gandhi said? “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then you win?”<\/p>\n

Well, the Frogs ignored the facts; punitive taxation causes capital flight. \u00a0Now they’ve switched to mockery:<\/p>\n

Francois Hollande. Depardieu\u2019s move was condemned by the French political establishment, including the Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault who called the actor\u2019s action \u201cpathetic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I really love the response:<\/p>\n

Depardieu shot back and, in an open letter to Monsieur Ayrault, wrote, \u201cI\u2019m leaving because you think success, creation, talent and anything different should be punished. I am sending you back my passport and social security, which I have never used.\u201d The French actor claims to have \u201cpaid 85 percent taxes on his revenues this year [2012] and estimated that he had paid \u20ac145m ($189m) in total since he started work as a printer at the age of 14.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to looooove watching France crash and burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer? “G\u00e9rard Depardieu est Jean Galt!” Few Frenchmen are more recognizable at home and abroad than the movie star Gerard Depardieu. Last week, Depardieu caused a great controversy in his native land by moving to Belgium \u2013 partly to avoid the 75 percent income tax on the wealthy that was introduced by the socialist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,123],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-32464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-taxes","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32464"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33668,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464\/revisions\/33668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}