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We did that in Denmark this year, cutting a holiday.
It turns out the whole thing was a calculator mistake, and also, the same faulty calculator was wrong about needing it in the first place.
American here... this plan implies that corporations are well taxed right. Cause if people work on a holiday, thier pay doesn't change I assume. That means only the increased output that leads to corporate income generates leading to improved tax revenue counts.
If the corporate tax rate is low like in the US, this would be like trying to fill the bathtub through a straw while the drain is open.
No no no, you can't tax corporations silly. That would punish them for creating jobs and wealth, they will leave the country and take back their jobs and then where would we be? Better continually lower corp taxes and Unleash the Magic™️ that will somehow cause budgets to balance themselves and jobs to spring up in abundance.
Is that how france does it too? I know that is the concept here in the states.
Almost everywhere these days sadly. If there are exceptions, I'm not aware of them. Tax codes are globally under fire because companies see them as an impediment to profitability, and not the foundation for how society functions and thus allows business to function.
He's not a fucking centrist...
Yeah, let's not touch one cent of the 221 billion € each year given to large corporations, and instead stop celebrating the victory against Nazism.
Biggest public spending by far: gifts to private companies, going completely uncheck for decades, no one know what any of the 2000+ schemes are and why this money is given and for what and nothing is expected in return. But if we are missing 17 billions on healthcare budget, we are supposed to get screwed and shut up.
Sounds like royalty to me, we'll get the cure out of the storage and sharpened again
the annual interest, of €60bn, could soon become its biggest budget outlay.
public financial support for the corporate sector currently coats €100bn
Not only not a centrist, he can't even do math.
OR, and hear me out on this one, you could TAX THE RICH.
Does this cheese eating surrender monkey want the French to riot? because this is how you get the French to riot.
Read the article looking for his reasoning. Nada. Apparently he got a calculator out and thought, "We could be 0.54% more productive!"
For only two days, there is almost no productivity lost. People simply work a little harder to make up that time. There's also less work because no one else was working, but still, c'mon.
Or, just tax the rich.
Right? Why is it always "make life harder for the working class" and never "make billionaires pay their fucking share"???
Yes because all the recent evidence definitely doesn't suggest that productivity is increased with 4 day working weeks overall
Why? Because free time is good for people's mental and physical health. You know who's more productive than someone who doesn't have time or energy to improve their health? Someone who does!
Truly baffling stuff
MoArE dAyS pAyDe MoArE mOnEyE
Yeah, that’ll go down well with the populace I’ll bet. Cue rioting and fires.
Knowing what I know of French history, I would never be a politician in France.
And God bless the French, they will burn Paris to the fucking ground for this. Meanwhile, in the U.S., congress just decimated what little public healthcare we have, and guys with Gadsden flag profile pics and handles like, "1776patriot," actively cheered them on.
They’ll have his head for this
Easter Monday
France may not be very religious any more, but it looks like they do still have a lot of religious holidays:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_France
Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Assumption Day, All Saint's Day, Christmas Day, Saint Stephen's Day.
Good Friday and Stephens are only for a very small portion of metropolitan France (former occupied territories that still have a few oddities like these)