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France tried to increase tax on gasoline, and this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_mov
by sampo 8y ago
France tried to increase tax on gasoline, and this happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement
I'd also guess that if any government in the US would increase gasoline taxes to European levels (more than doubling the gas prices), they would be quickly voted out in the next elections.
- netsharc 8y agoAh, yeah, true, I guess rich Norway's government has its population's support. Tragically, Merkel's policy of Austerity Uber Alles across the whole of EU has made the EU a hated institution from the left as well as from the right, and my feeling is this is also why the French government is hated by its population.