http://news.yahoo.com/french-budget-adds-7-billion-euros-taxes-rich-100603279--business.html

France slaps 7 billion euros in taxes on rich, big firms
By Daniel Flynn | Reuters – 2 hrs 6 mins ago

PARIS (Reuters) - France's new Socialist government announced a raft of tax rises worth 7.2 billions euros on Wednesday, including heavy one-off levies on wealthy households and big corporations, to plug a revenue shortfall this year from feeble economic growth.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Tuesday slashed this year's official growth forecast to 0.3 percent of GDP from a previous estimate of 0.7 percent, and to 1.2 percent in 2013 from 1.75 percent previously.
By eliminating a tax exemption on overtime introduced by Sarkozy, the Socialists aim to raise 980 million euros this year.
Repealing a law which shifted labour charges onto a rise in VAT sales tax will also have a net positive effect for 800 million euros, and a doubling of a tax on financial transactions to 0.2 percent will bring in 170 million euros.
Other tax measures in the budget include a 3 percent tax to be paid by companies on dividends distributed to shareholders, in an effort to encourage firms to use their cash flow for investment as France seeks to overturn a widening competitiveness gap with industrial powerhouse Germany.

Taxing the wealthy....good idea.
Returning to txing overtime, not going to be popular with workers, but many took advantage of overtime employment rules to up their incomes becuase of this.
Levying more taxes on businesses....not very smart. French companies are already looking at other options. Airbus is building new plant in US. Others have opened Asian plants. What needs to be done is reform of emplyment laws in Europe, especially France, that tie the hands of many companies and cost the Government billions each year in payouts.

industrialization can only go so far before society demands that water/food/housing/heating be free....because THERE'S ONLY SO
MUCH SH!T WE CAN BUILD, that allows us to pay for the sh!t we would normally do for ourselves on our own homesteads...

taxes replace the self reliant farm work we used to do.....

industrialization is 'easier' but cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

not to mention the keeping of equality based on the plebs desires of equality/envy/jealousy/perceived un-fairness etc etc.......

and the crumbs called 'at least'

I want it all free so someone else can be the chump for a change