Tag: tax protests

Yellow Vests demonstration (Gilets Jaunes) protesters against fuel tax, government, and French President Macron at Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe

“Yellow Vest” Protests Are a Good Excuse to Look Past Tax Burdens

MarketWatch Blog by Alicia H. Munnell

January 2, 2019

I was trying to figure out what made French workers put on their yellow vests. The action-forcing event appears to have been a proposed hike in gasoline and diesel taxes. Are the French overburdened with taxes? Figure 1 presents the ranking of countries by total taxes as a percentage of GDP. These data, from t…

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