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2018-12-05 Europe

Macron retreats on fuel tax hikes in bid to calm French protests

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Posted by Fred 2018-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Get that choking feeling around the neck? Or did the generals balk at shooting their own citizens?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-05 06:47|| 2018-12-05 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Right. The taxes are "temporarily" rescinded. There are already bureaucrats calculating how much higher to raise them later on...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-05 07:44|| 2018-12-05 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm waiting for the tumbrils to start rolling.

Is Paris burning?

Posted by AlanC 2018-12-05 08:28|| 2018-12-05 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Aux Armes Citoyens.

Can we in Treason May's fiefdom borrow the tumbrils after France?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-05 09:23|| 2018-12-05 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 update; not temporarily; but permanently cancelled. according to Breitbart.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-12-05 18:50|| 2018-12-05 18:50|| Front Page Top

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