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What's the front's position on Palestine-Israel? And taxes?
All parties in the Popular Front are generally pro-Palestinians (in particular, Macron's long-standing refusal to even acknowledge that Israel is doing any wrong has been particularly shocking to them, and a good chunk of the population).
In their program they say (translation by me from Le Monde's article):
As for taxes, there's a lot of stuff (and I'm not translating everything on mobile lol). A lot of it boils down to revertibg all the terribly unbalanced and unfair tax policies of Macron like:
They also said they want to add a tax on products depending on how much they travelled throughtout the world (to be produced, I imagine), condition company subsidies to their respect of environemental & social norms (esp fighting discrimination within companies). They also want to tax financial transaction (I'm supposing they mean this at a EU level with the big 'Tax the rich' petition), agro companies super profits.
On a related note, there are lots of stuff they want to do for the lower strada's budgets like:
(Holy shit this took me one hour to write, hopefully I didn't forget anything)
Wow, thanks a lot for the extremely detailed response. I suggest you copy it to a txt file at some point in case you get the chance to post it again somewhere else, because it almost feels like a waste that not much more people will pass through the thread.