Newspeak for taxing the rich at 85% – “Solidarity Tax On Fortunes”. Because bending over and taking one from the government is patriotic…
After stating that it was impossible for any one taxpayer to have to pay 85% of his income or fortune in taxes, as (the departing) Gérard Depardieu was claiming (i.e., suggesting that the movie star was lying), a government minister has had to admit that the members of the government were, or at least that he himself was, wrong and did not know the nation’s tax figures.
