Behind France’s Yellow Vest Protest.

It’s not just about the fuel tax; it’s about anger at ever-increasing burdens on the working class.

21世紀法國大革命,法國老百姓,要麵包,要石油與天然氣,要工作,低稅捐怎麼辦?

法國總統馬克龍微調了柴油價僅僅0.065歐元，約合人民幣5毛錢，就這麼一點不夠買一瓶水的錢，就引發了席捲全國、以打砸搶燒為特徵的黃馬甲運動，真的令人感嘆西方社會不服就鬧的精神。事件的始料未及不僅影響法國造成社會混亂抗爭暴動也向歐洲其他國家漫延比利時荷蘭等被感染到這種民眾革命的氣息.

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法國已經掉入美國所設計的陷井中無法自拔.

據情報顯示出馬克龍曾經密電美國總統川普求助因為總總跡象顯示暴動將逐漸擴大漫延至整個法國甚至於比利時荷蘭等國家川普裝聾作啞視而不見.

川普無奈的表示那是你們法國的家務事與我們美國無關?

誰叫你不聽從追隨美國的政策,多買美國武器,加強對俄羅斯的經濟制裁,不要購買他們的石油與天然氣.

美國總統特朗普上台後，一再要求北約各國提高軍費預算。201703月特朗普在布魯塞爾的北約各國防長會議上，要求各國提高軍費至GDP的2％。再加上馬克龍本來就是一個大刀闊斧的改革家，國家預算費用節節攀升，便打起了增收燃油稅的主意。正是由於法國等北約國家常年在軍事上追隨美國，比如在伊拉克、阿富汗,利比亞以及敘利亞進行軍事干預甚至展開戰爭，才導致產生數以百萬計的難民逃離家園湧入歐洲避難僅是德國便收容將近120萬民敘利亞難民左右相較法國不足3萬人.

。比如當今法國，非裔黑人已經占據了很大比例，搶占了法國原住民的社會福利，還引起失業率高漲不下，社會治安每況愈下。法國人對該問題的不滿情緒日益高漲.

法國老百姓他們要的僅僅是高福利、高工資、低物價和低稅務，肚子填飽比較實際。香謝大道與凱旋門附近建築物與商店,銀行,奢侈品專賣店,均已遭受破壞,搶劫,燒毀就是另類法國大革命.

What’s Really Behind France’s Yellow Vest Protest?

It’s not just about the fuel tax; it’s about anger at ever-increasing burdens on the working class. French President Emmanuel Macron isn’t a fan of protests. He has mocked union demonstrators in the past for being “lazy” and “cynical” and criticized his predecessors in the Elysée Palace for too easily succumbing to the demands of their critics. This presidency, Macron assured, would stick to its business-friendly reform agenda—even when unpopular. As the former investment banker and economy minister put it bluntly last fall, “democracy is not in the street.”

This is what makes the French government’s decision to cancel an increase in the fuel tax next year all the more extraordinary. After three weeks of protests that have grown increasingly violent—resulting thus far in three deaths, more than 800 injuries, and more than 1,600 arrests, as well as riots in some of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Paris—it has finally conceded to the central demand of the so-called gilets jaunes, or Yellow Vest, movement.

The rich receive a very different sort of treatment: Overseeing his very first budget as president, Macron rushed to repeal France’s wealth tax, which had applied only to those with over €1.3 million in assets. This is why the notion of justice fiscale, or “tax justice,” figures so prominently among Yellow Vest sympathizers: Why should ordinary people, they ask, be forced to fork over another couple hundred euros each month while the super-rich are rewarded simply for being super-rich? Likewise, as outlandish as it may sound, many protesters are calling on the president to resign. 

 Through both his policies that disproportionately benefit the rich and his tendency to ignore his critics, Macron exemplifies the state’s abdication of responsibility toward the least well-off.