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The media won’t tell you, but it’s the middle-class rioting in France

9 January 2019

6:51 PM

9 January 2019

6:51 PM

One less-reported fact about the Paris ‘yellow vest’ riots is that they have sparked by small business traders, petit bourgeois, not the usual public sector workers, disaffected students or the left.

Macron’s government was distilled socialism, blanketing France with yet another layer of taxes aimed at those who were already paying taxes.

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