Gérard Depardieu leaves France to avoid Hollande's taxes

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He should be permanently banned from entering the country until he pays all taxes he's avoided by leading it. That's the sensible solution to this sort of problem.

Anti Globalism, anti freedom of movement nonsense.

I'd characterize it as anti-race to the bottom more than anything else, although it's admittedly not very sensible as policy.

Anyway, anybody who would flee their country just to avoid a change in tax policy that makes them slightly less fabulously rich is really no great loss.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

He should be permanently banned from entering the country until he pays all taxes he's avoided by leading it. That's the sensible solution to this sort of problem.

Anti Globalism, anti freedom of movement nonsense.

I'd characterize it as anti-race to the bottom more than anything else, although it's admittedly not very sensible as policy.

Anyway, anybody who would flee their country just to avoid a change in tax policy that makes them slightly less fabulously rich is really no great loss.

Because letting people keep more of their money is totally racing down to the bottom #slightlyplatitudinalonmypartbutstill

Not in and of itself, and there are arguments for lowering taxes in certain situations just as there are for raising them. 'Race to the bottom' is a term with a specific meaning that arguably encompasses situations like this, more the self-interested financial emigration aspect than the tax aspect. (Said meaning is admittedly loaded, in a direction that I more or less approve of and you probably would not.)

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20896894

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20896894

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Sort of. We've entered the hyperreality.

Clearly.

I mean, Russia?!

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Didn't this guy also used to (claim to) be some kind of leftist?