Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The Yellow Vest anti-government movement (#YellowVests, #GiletsJaunes) began in France on November 17, 2018, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel. President Emmanuel Macron claimed the French were leading the world in the battle against climate change. The Yellow Vest protests evolved rapidly into an all-out general anti-government movement that was supported by 70% of the French population.
When Macron was forced to back out of the tax, the first thing he did was look for something else to tax to make up the difference. Then the French government had to ask Brussels for an exemption from austerity. This all proved one thing — the fuel tax was really about just raising taxes.
Now, the Yellow Vest Movement has gone worldwide, spreading at first to Belgium, where Brussels riot cops had to deal with them for week after week of protests blocking an oil depot. Then on December 8, 2018, the Belgians attempted to breach a riot barricade while calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Charles Michel, resulting in around 100 arrests. So in both France and in Belgium there are demands for the heads of government to resign.
What is conspicuously absent from the list below is the United States. Trump has rejected the climate taxes and lowered tax rates, moving directly opposite of all the other countries on the list. Nevertheless, the future for the United States is looking very bleak. The budget will force a rise in taxation as more and more government workers retire, thereby dramatically increasing the cost of government.
The New Democratic Socialist Party, headed by Schumer and Pelosi, is advocating dramatic increases in taxation following the same course as the other countries on the list below. Our model shows that the Trump Tax Cuts were merely a reaction within a broader bull market trend. That means we should be looking for the next peak in tax rates in 2026. We should begin to see the Yellow Vest emerge in the USA in 2020.
Countries seeking climate taxes:
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Egypt
- Finland
- Germany
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Serbia
- Taiwan
- Tunisia
- United Kingdom
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My wife and I both have them. Just waiting. But be careful, as EVERY movement to increase freedom and liberty gets co-opted by the big-government/oppression crowd. Just look at Dick Army and his takeover of the Tea Party movement that Ron Paul started. People are truly pissed off, but there are generally NO common threads, and certainly NO principles.
I think it will be somewhat different as we’re armed. More along the lines of V is for Vendetta when the statist says “someone will do something stupid”. Probably something involving a child. Like those Coventry Catholic kids. If that boy had of been killed, being a pre Vat II Catholic, I might have jumped.
Maybe when third world disease like typhus reappear in major cities?
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/rats-public-defecation-and-open-drug-use-our-major-western-cities-are-becoming-uninhabitable-hellholes
Oh, right.
NEON VESTS FOR ALL OF U.S. 2 WEEKS AGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFuuKWLy-Eg
ORGANIZING A NATIONAL MOVEMENT 1 WEEK AGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzycFl8Jt5I
NEON VESTS REDUX 3 DAYS AGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86aGHWbq3XY
Thanks for this reminder. Very important to keep monitoring as this movement goes.
Speaking of election fraud:
http://wwwtheworldandeverythinginit.blogspot.com/2019/02/election-fraud-states-with-more.html
Registered voters>adult population
Taras 77,
He is obviously just trying to ignite a spark and feels this tactic may be our last chance to stop the slow motion implosion and in my mind Civil War 2. Civil War 2 is my words not his.
I sent an e-mail to:
[email protected]
Gave my state and Congressional District and said: “Here I am, my vest will be red, white and blue.”
Methinks we should try some sort of orangey reddish color. The illuminated dot on tactical scopes and red dot sights won’t be visible on them.
First off, they’re not anti-government. They’re anti-bad-government.
This too is false. He only lowered taxes on the very wealthy. Anyone else may have gotten a crumb of a percentage point, totally meaningless in other words. Ironically this is one reason why we need a yellow vest movement in the U.S.
The only ones that experienced a bull market was the Fat Cats on Wall Street. Everyone else is struggling to pay their light bill.
Yeah right, some rich cocksucker crybabies are going to put on yellow vest and protest in the streets of of the District Of Criminals because their taxes went up to where they were before Trump gave them a free meal ticket and threw his constituents under the bus by pretending to fight for a border wall, letting more turd world low wage brown skinned turds to undercut their pay.
Ned – you post some of the stupidest shit ever seen on TBP and that is saying somthing.
You do not understand four basic things: 1) the “rich”, however you want to define them, pay almost all the taxes, and the top 10% pay about 80% of all taxes. So how much more than essentially all do you want them to pay. 2) Half the people pay zero net fed tax at all. 3) It is an expenditure issue, not a tax ad revenue issue, but all you and the left seem to focus on is wanting to milk the rich, whoever the hell they are. And 4) tax is theft, especially and moreso when the point of i is to take money from those that are productive and give it to those that are not.
Wise the fuck up. The US does not need more taxes, the US does not need to tax anyone more, and takin less tax from any segment is a good thing, and certainly does not constitute throwing anyone under the bus.
Instead, what say this is done instead: slash spending on defence by 50 to 70 percent get rid of SNAP cards, get rid of all welfare for illegals, get rid of the parasites who are rorting disability, reduce the government workforce by half, etc. Those things would balance the budget. And no additional theft by way of tax would be needed.
Horse shit. The rich pay the bulk of the taxes however it is typically a lower rate due to the capital gains percentage difference . Average wage earners pay 50% in direct and indirect taxation . That’s not including additional tax loopholes that existed before their tax cuts and still do. For example even before the tax cuts 27 top American corporations paid no federal income tax. I already burned your ass in the last propaganda comment you made the other day. Get your facts straight before you make an ass out of yourself again.
See above asshole.
Agree that the U.S. government has a out of control spending problem. I’m not a leftist, I voted for Trump in 2016. However I am a “realist”, something your not and probably never will be. The left vs. right paradigm already proved itself to be fraudulent about three administrations ago. You’re slow to catch on ain’t you? The rich have been milking the middle class not the other way around. The rich want no wall on the southern border, gee I wonder why? Are you too stupid to figure that one out? The rich offshored the middle class jobs and at the same time took advantage (and still do) of cheap illegal and H1B visa workers. Again, you make an ass out of yourself by thinking that everybody will just read your comment and upvote you without thinking first what you wrote.
That’s exactly right! We need to get billionaires off of welfare! I’m a middle class (if there is such a thing) person that’s tired of the REAL Free Shit Army, the corporate subsidies, bailouts, on top of discounted tax rates and loopholes afforded to them which the middle class and poor have to make up for because the Orange Jesus has increased the budget deficit and thus the national debt. If Obama doubled the national debt, Trump will at least match what Obama did. And that is contrary 180 degrees to campaign promises. Promises unleashed, bend over boy!
Agree on all of the above in the last paragraph, except you left one thing out. Again I repeat, GET BILLIONAIRES OFF OF WELFARE TOO WHILE YOUR AT IT.
And while your at it, drop the cognitive dissonance act, forget the bullshit left vs. right divide and conquer tactic they successfully brainwashed you into and get the big orange dick out of you ass.
“Average wage earners pay 50% in direct and indirect taxation” Ned the moron says. Moron, then explain how that the lower half pay zero net. Please, give us some actual sources for that bullshit.
Then you crap in about companies paying no taxes. How is that possible? Two ways generally – previous losses, and profits of the company made overseas. Your bullshit MSM snapshot does not tell you that, though, moron.
Corporate subsidies? If you are middle class, then you are likely not paying net fed taxes yourself. Not paying tax is not a fucking subsidy, shithead. That is leftist bullshit. And look at the fed budget and get back to me in who is sucking up the actual tax money. And it sure as hell is not corporations.
Again billionaires are not in welfare. Not paying tax is not welfare, get your fucking head in straight. That is leftist bullshit. And riddle me this, dickhead, why should the entities that employ people,pay any tax? It is counter-productive. Charge tax at the full rate when dividends are taken. Corp tax total is $300 billion a year – a veritable drop in the ocean. Get rid of it.
You say you are not a lefty. Bullshit. You are an envious welfare parasite.
Say’s the orange cocksucker that gave not one source at all for your lame shit comments.
Thanks for letting everyone know that you have reached “peak retard”. In the previous sentence you criticize me for not sourcing any information to back up my claims, then when I do, you call it it bullshit, whilst you provide ZERO source for your bullshit.
Corporate subsidies born by the rest of us that have to actually work for a living, are not the result of profits or losses, or overseas operations. But you do make a nice strawman argument. NOT.
You are confusing two different things in a one-upsmanship lame ass attempt to merge them together, corporate subsidies + not paying a net tax. Since you didn’t pay attention in the previous lesson I gave you, I’ll spell it out for you again.
1. Corporate subsidies = Taxpayer (that’s working people, not corporate CEO’s and shareholders) funded subsidies. ‘Corporate welfare’ is another term for ‘corporate subsidies’, which is often used to describe a government’s bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment for corporations. This is the equivalent of welfare for the already rich. The definition of corporate welfare is sometimes restricted to direct government subsidies of major corporations, excluding tax loopholes and all manner of regulatory and trade decisions, which in practice could be worth much more than any direct subsidies. Then there’s ‘corporate inversions’.
2. Net fed taxes paid by workers is the result of their adjusted gross incomes. Notice this group does not receive any welfare, individual or otherwise benefits paid by other taxpayers, whereas corporations do. Now that there is a downward 40% tax cut for the rich, which the middle class and poor did not receive, this groups tax footprint is larger than corporations.
Again, you’re confusing Right VS. Left with Right VS. Wrong. It’s over your head because you got your head in your ass instead of where it belongs. You’re a true snowflake. You are so embroiled in ‘identity politics’, that I can’t tell the difference between you and the leftist crybabies. It’s a shame that stupid people like you vote and that your vote counts just as much as the informed.
Again what? Another retarded attempt at an epic failed strawman argument. I never said not paying taxes is not billionaire welfare, I said middle class and poor paying taxes to fund corporate wealth is corporate welfare. But if it’s corporate taxes your leaning on, they do get tax breaks and more of them that individuals do. Is that fair?
I’m not on welfare you dumb dick. Instead I’m paying for billionaires to be on welfare. Get it straight, Dildo.
Nod says he has posted facts. What subsidies I ask? He says tax breaks. Agin he is too dumb for words. Not paying taxes is not a fucking subsidy. Not paying taxes does not cost anyone a single dime.
Again, what welfare are corps receiving? Tesla, yes. Farmers, yes. But what do corps receive from the fed budget. Point it out on the fed budget.
Nod is too stupid to understand that if a company is not paying taxes on its profits it generally means 1) carry forward of losses, or 2) the money was made overseas. He wants proof? That is because he has zero financial knowledge of corp taxes, balance sheets, income tax laws.
For instance, how would Nod feel, if Nod was not a welfare parasite, and actually had money to buy a house, if he bought said house for $100k, and then the market crashed, and the house became worth only $50k. The next year the market recovers, and the house regains value to $100k again. The IRS then jumps in and says “Pay me tax on the $50k profit you just made!” Well, Nod would be very unhappy, as he would figure he really has not made a profit at all.
But Nod, the imbecile, thinks that corporations should not be allowed to recover their losses. The fact that they maybe lost billions in the previous years, which is shareholder money that was already taxed, should not be alllowed to be recover before tax kicks in. Nope, the money lost cannot be used to offset this years gains, according to old Nod. They made a profit this year – tax them! Shreik!
And old Nod has not addressed how that given the top 10% pay 80% of the tax, just how much does he want them to pay? All of it maybe? They are not paying their fair share! Shreik! And he comes up with the bullshit that they are paying a lesser tax rate than the average Joe. That is a bullshit fairy-tale. The numbers are there if old Nod had brains enough to look. Especially given average joe pays no tax, and essentially the top 20% pay it all.
He screeches that the poor and middle class did not get a tax break. Nod does not seem to understand that you actually have to pay taxes to get a tax break, and that group does not pay taxes. Doh! What he really means is that if the “rch get to pay less tax, then he and the other parasites should get some more free shit to balance it out.
He screeches again about corporate welfare. Just what fucking welfare is that, I repeat.
He says that the poor and middle class are paying tax to fund corporate wealth is corporate welfare. What the fuck does that mean? The poor and middle class do not pay fed tax, for a start. And again, what wealth are they funding? That is gibberish. The only folks that gibber like that are welfare parasites.
Nod, you have zero idea about taxes, profit and loss, budgets, financing. You screech about corporate welfare, but cannot actually name any, best I can tell.
Nod, keep claiming you are not a welfare parasite. You stink of it. It taints you. It is who you are.
I just did some research on some of Nod’s claims.
The Average Joe pays 6% fed tax if married, 10% if single. Hmm. That is less than the billionaires.
He says that Average Joe got no income tax breaks. My research shows Average Joe got a 25% reduction in his taxes in the latest rounds of tax cuts.
That compares to single Richie Rich on $250k that got a 1.7% tax break, and those on $2,000,000 a year got effectively nothing.
Nod is not only stupider than an earthworm, he is incapable of telling the truth.
In New York, the top 1% have 31% of all income and pay 48% of all taxes. Envy will kill you. Try making your own instead of fretting some guy somewhere has more.
Harrington – they whine and cry because they do not want to work, and are incapable of making their own. They want the “rich” to pay more, even though they pay almost all already.
The top 1% pay almost half the taxes, but still that is not enough, and they do not deserve any tax reductions. You cannot make this shit up.
I think maybe Nod is a Socialist paid troll. He sounds like he is supporting the Green New Deal.
What. The. Bloody. Fuck. Is. Going. On?!!
“This all proved one thing — the fuel tax was really about just raising taxes”.
Which reminds me of all the justifications for how red light cameras were all about “safety enhancement” and not about revenue from the fines. Any wonder why, at each location where the cameras were installed, accident report summaries started showing large increases in rear end collisions?
Even deplorables can guess the winners and the losers in that fiasco.
About 20 years ago my state enacted a fee-not a tax, mind you-for the disposal of worn out tires. The revenues were supposed to support operation and maintenance of tire disposal sites. The environment, you know? A couple years into the program a talented newspaper reporter discovered that 100% of those revenues went into the state’s general fund and not into anything even remotely earmarked for tire disposal sites. Coincidentally the state employee pension plan was in distress. Hmmmmm. Oh yeah, the tire fee has gone up several times-a quarter or two each time-the bastards don’t even have the decency to nickle and dime us anymore.
Sooner or later people will realize that enough is enough.
Won’t be pretty.
Here in Minnesota we have a paint disposal fee – on every quart / gallon of paint sold. Doesn’t matter if you use all the paint – you still have to pay the tax – I mean ‘fee’.
Laws in eight PaintCare States and the District of Columbia require retailers to add a stewardship
assessment to architectural paint products and make sure they are not selling unregistered brands of
architectural paint.
https://www.paintcare.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/xx-factsheet-retailer-fee.pdf
fornigator,
i’m glad you brought up redlight cameras–
here in florida,the libertyfirstnetwork.com is pushing hard to get rid of redlight cameras,with lots of pushback from govt & vendors–if you’re in florida or know people here,please read,act,and forward–
https://libertyfirstnetwork.com/legislative-ticker/?cat=9
Waiting for the reactions on this one (false hope dying a long and painful death):
https://www.sott.net/article/407131-Unraveling-The-QAnon-Hoax
Some of the Q devotees are going to lose their shit, It won’t be pretty.
Another issue some of us were frantically clutching at some level.
To have a “yellow vest” movement in the US we need to all find more common ground,the powers that want to be keep us fighting over racism/sexuality ect.,we get beyond that we might realize we need to work together we want positive change.I would also say as another poster pointed out we need to keep out those that would try and divide such a movement.
I would say working on ideas for what “change” we want also a good idea,while protesting things that are wrong a good start having goals even better to work for.
We are also armed to the teeth and thus feel need to do this but carefully,could get very bloody/ugly very quickly and things go very wrong(but perhaps needed).You want a vest,start with 3a but have pockets for plates and read this article over @WRSA for what NOT to do!
Article: https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/psa-use-this-material-to-ensure-that-your-home-is-safe/ ,enjoy your day!
Thanks James!
Your Welcome,will say though Mark a poster here who shall remain annon wised me up to the TM31-210 awhile back,just like to see it make the rounds and hopefully keep us all safe!
My vest will be Tiger Stripe Kevlar.
What country you posting in that “going tiger”would be good camo?
I suppose protesting at the zoo among the large cats are would make this a workable pattern.
Guess you came along after the Vietnam conflict.
Ginger,a kid during the Vietnam conflict.That said,really do not see the yellow vest movement in Asian forests a thing for the posters here though suppose a few could be from Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos ect.,any posters gonna fess up to their Asian locations?
a post about the yellow vest movement is a good place to put an article about service dogs,toxic masculinity,shooting,and a great american–
https://www.shootingwire.com/features/15416169-b4bc-4300-b947-e22f8146e9a9
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA?
(imagine proper lithp)
Ugh, .. Neveeer! Yellow is so 2018!
And vests! Don’t get me started on vests!
And what is that material? … plastic? So tacky!
What we need is like a Camel Coat movement. Or, maybe scarves … ooh, I know, ASCOTS! Green Ascots. Green is vogue this year.
The Green Ascot Movement. I looove it.