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Keynes serait horrifié de voir le niveau de réflexion sur la politique économique et sociale de la France depuis la loi sur les 35 heures en 2000 , les hausses d'impôt massives de la dernière année de Sarkozy en 2011, et la politique soi-disant anti-riches de Hollande, Mélenchon et sbires qui cible en réalité les entrepreneurs et innovateurs.

La gauche française se sert du mot "Keynésianisme" pour donner l'impression que son "on va s'endetter pour distribuer des cadeaux aux ménage" est basé sur une théorie économique sérieuse. Mais elle n'a jamais réellement voulu faire du Keynesianisme (ce qui impliquerais par ex de faire des excédents budgétaires les années de croissance), et je doute que Mélenchon, Faure ou Tondelier aient jamais ouvert un bouquin de Keynes (ou d'un autre économiste qui ne soit ni Marx, Duflot ou Piketty)

Quand on change pas le nombre de logements et le nombre de gens à loger, on change rien à l'équilibre offre/demande et aux prix : y'aura autant de logements en plus à vendre qu'il y aura d'acheteurs en plus qui veulent acheter (ceux qui ne peuvent plus louer)

A côté de ça on construira moins, ce qui, avec le temps augmentera le déséquilibre et les prix.

C'est pas le soucis. Le problème c'est que si c'est plus rentable de faire du locatif, le marché va encore continuer à se réduire pour les locataires. Tout le monde n'a pas forcément ou les moyens ou l'envie d'acheter.

Except the US tax rate is much lower. Paying the sky high French taxes while getting zero in public services in return (unlike actual French tax residents) is basically robbery.

Also just because the US does it means it's good.

The problem is the "left government" has adopted the most radical component's entire program (except on nuclear energy and some foreign topics).

If a different minister passes the same "we will tax all french abroad and raises marginal tax to 90%" law, doesn't really changes anything to the bottom line.

Sure but if you don't have a majority and need to ally with someone else you have to water down your plans, there's no other way around it. Neither sides want to partner, but the center is probably more comfortable having no real government and keeping the status quo for the next two years than the left is.

The left didn't increase its score from past election (about 25-30% of votes). The difference is they went united.

But technically the far right got the most votes and only cross party agreements with the centre and right avoided a far right dominated parliament.

The left also doesn't want to work with his party. Both Mélenchon and Castes have made it clear it would be their program and only their program and that they would not ally with the presidential party which they blame for everything wrong.

Comme toujours en politique : moins on agit plus on est populaire. C'est quand on commence à prendre des décisions que ça fâche des gens.

She actively plotted and traveled to get revenge and clearly didn't act in self defense. While it's easy to be sympathetic to her story, her guilt seems difficult to deny.

The issue with housing is that the supply is limited. If you increase demand and not supply you just increase prices. Giving buyers $25k extra to spend means every home owner is now gonna jack up their selling price by $25k. This is, in the end, a subsidy for existing home-owners. Who already are doing pretty well, thank you very much.

Denying the existence of supply and demand always lead to policy failure. The way to address housing cost is to lower the cost of housing, not make housing more expensive by helping people outbid each others.

Tips should definitely be taxed. Otherwise you'll end up with businesses shifting entire income of their staff to tipping which IMHO is horrible (on top of depriving the government of income)