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France has a massive welfare state and pension system (which is causing a crisis as they cant afford it in the long run). People probably are getting 28x more from the government than before those existed.



I'm pretty sure they're paying for it though.


Yes, but they are mostly letting younger people pay for it. Younger people who are unlikely to receive similar pensions at such an early age.


True, I have yet to witness a generation who get what they were promised.


Yes, everyone pays taxes into the system. But don't think for a moment that when musk et.al. are done with their purge that your tax rate will magicaly plummet to 2%. It's going to either stay the same or go up. Unless you are in the 1%. In which case, you can start your celebration now.




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