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| Nicolas Sarkozy |
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22 | 62.86% |
| Ségolène Royal |
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13 | 37.14% |
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?
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Sinon si Mme Royale ne prétend pas augmenter le nombre de fonctionnaires, elle ne prétend pas non plus le diminuer. Quote:
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?
A good video on how Sarkozy's platform is better for those who already are well off and not that good for those who already have little ...
Video Sarko et les riches - anti-sarko, anti, Sarko, antisarko, bayrou - Dailymotion Share Your Videos Remettre la France au travail ? He wants to put the French back to work ? But to inherit, you need to do nothing. Just wait for your parents to die. It's an excellent video, sorry, only in French.
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?
I would like to add that I find the "bouclier fiscal" at 50% OK - because, true those who are paid well also work for it and should be rewarded. I don't agree with Mme Royal on this point.
On all other points, and although I don't like the terminology used in the video "les riches"/ "les pauvres", I agree with most of the points. Somebody who says that everybody should become the owner of his/her house does not know what it means to live with the SMIC. People with so little money can't save one sinle penny !!!
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?
No sorry.
The measures are the following (the ones I can remember) : - Suppression of the inheritance tax on houses - but that's only 20% of the French who are concerned since 80% do not pay inheritance taxes in the first place ... - Higher VAT in order to finance social costs (VAT as an indirect tax weights proportionally more on lower incomes than on higher ones.) - Lower "bouclier fiscal" - at 50% instead of 60% at the moment. - Introduction of a flat rate for health care Again one of these measures which weights relatively more on lower than on higher incomes - Lower interests rates for mortgage That's nice if you have the capital to buy a house in the first place. By the way renting has some advantages, it's a personal choice which may correspond to a way of life - but it's only worthwhile if the rents are low/ accessible.
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I think that borrowing for 30+ years in kinda absurd. Of course you'll get a property (at the end of your life), but after paying 3 times the price of the house, is it worthy ? In France you can borrow on very long periods, until 40 years, and propably 50 years soon. I think it's a nonsense. |
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The video mentions it again. VAT is economy neutral - i.e. it does not affect companies since they can recover it. It is really just a consumer tax, simply it goes unnoticed whereas higher direct income or social taxes would be very unpopular. Somehow, NS needs to finance his platform, doesn't he ? In Germany, the VAT went up from 16% to 19% as of 01. January 2007. In France, it's already at 19,6% - quite high. Should it go up to the level of Scaninavian countries (25% ?). Quote:
Somehow, the house was later donated to my aunt. (This is why I really do not understand Sarkozy's plans - there are ways to give your property to the next generation if you do it during your life time ...) On the other hand, my sister is getting a divorce at the moment and I can say that the house is the reason - because to live only to pay the mortgage is not a life. My last comment on this is that property in France is comparatively to other European countries, most specially in Northern Europe but also in Italy, very affordable. The real problem IMO are the high rents in large towns, not just in Paris. To make everybody a "propriétaire" is only a way to escape the problem. But who cares anyway. Tomorrow France will have a new president and this Preisdent will be Nicolas Sarkozy. ![]()
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Regarding the VAT increase, I never heard about it and it has not been mentionned during the debate. 19.6% is enough. It used to be 18.6%, than 20.6% when Chirac became president |
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?
Une remarque générale: je trouve extrèmement fatigant et même pénible ce genre de débat partisan. Si j'avais su que cette discussion se déroulerait ainsi je ne l'aurais même pas commencée. Je ne participe pas à ce forum pour faire de la propagande pour un camp ou l'autre, mais pour participer à des débats d'idées.
Ce qu'on a ici n'est pas un débat d'idée, c'est (à l'image du débat sur France 2 de mercredi) une joute rhétorique. Quote:
Pour ce qui est de la moyenne nationale, je t'ai déjà expliqué que ce n'était, encore une fois, pas un critère suffisant. Je t'ai même donné la formule qui permettrait de calculer de façon plus précise quels départements ont préféré quel candidat. Je conçois parfaitement que tu ne veuilles pas faire les calculs (c'est long et chiant). De toute façon, l'argument selon lequel on ne sait répondre à un problème que lorsqu'on y est directement confronté est en soi démagogique. Les athéniens l'avaient bien compris, qui n'autorisaient pas ceux qui habitaient en dehors des murs de la cité à se prononcer sur les questions militaires: en effet, ceux qui n'étaient pas protégés par l'enceinte avaient plus de raison de craindre pour leur propriété, et donc de voter de façon interessée et déraisonnable. Quote:
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De plus, il devrait être clair a présent que la réalité electorale de l'UDF n'a rien à voir aujourd'hui avec ce qu'elle a été il y a quelques années. D'où la création d'un nouveau mouvement.
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?
Well, even in Sydney, Australia, there is a high interest in the French elections. As I hold dual Australian and French citizenship, I can vote in Presidential elections. When the first round took place a couple of weeks ago, the queue outside the building where the French Consulate is located in Sydney was very long, stretching the whole street and round the corner, and it took two hours before it was our turn to go up to the 26th floor of the building and vote. Tomorrow we go to vote in the second round. So I will vote for Segolene Royal because her general platform is the closest to my own views. Some may think it is wrong or odd that someone living in Australia should have a say in the French elections. The way I see things, who becomes the President of a nation has an impact in the sphere of international affairs. So I might as well make my vote count.
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Your vote will be as reasonable and as relevant as any vote in France. Here in Germany, the newspapers and the broadcasters have run daily, and I say daily, at least during the two rounds, a story on the French elections. French politics is like a show in a way with two interesting candidates. But mainly the interest is due to the fact that the problems the French have - be it the adaptation to a globalized world, the place in an enlarged EU, immigration, payment of pensions, cost of adequate health care, "une société juste"/ "Was ist Gerechtigkeit ?" - are very similar here. France is so much different and so much the same. It is a good way to see yourself in a mirror. I will vote for Ségolène Royal tomorrow. She was not my candidate, and I regret that my candidate did not make it to the second round, yet I am convinced that she can bring as much of the necessary change to France as Sarko, but in a smoother way. Le dialogue social est nécessaire, surtout si on veut changer les choses. I do not trust Sarkozy and his simple solutions to complex issues.
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non je déconne. Tu avances tes idées moi les miennes, c'est tout, si le sujet te parait quelque peu ennuyeux par sa forme et son contenu je peux le comprendre, mais comment parler de politique autrement ? honnetement, c'est pas parce que je vote Sarkozy que je suis bouché Quote:
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Et voici pour conclure une étude complète faite par IPSO. Tu verras par toi même que ton argument n'est pas le bon Etude Ispos C'est en bas de la page. Tu y verras que hormis chez les retraites la différence n'est pas suffisament net pour conclure que les riches sont du côté de Sarkozy. De plus les professions à hauts revenus n'ont pas voté pour lui.... moi aussi ca m'etonne mais pourtant c'est comme ca, comme quoi, les riches sont généreux dans le pays. ![]() ![]() et maintenant les ouvriers : le sacre de Le Pen ![]() Donc, encore une fois, non, ton raisonnement ne tiens pas, ou alors c'est que je ne le suis pas bien.... Quote:
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En ce qui concerne les termes qui les unissent, ils ne devaient pas être en si mauvais termes que ca puisque la majorité des élus UDF se sont tournés vers Sarkozy. Par contre, oui, Bayrou lui ne supportait plus l'UMP ca c'est clair, et ca n'a jamais été démenti, depuis le début Bayrou était hostile à l'UMP.Quote:
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