France, Taxes and Gérard Depardieu...

Okay, I'll make that story short. The famous French movie actor who urinate in commercial airplane main cabin, doesn't want to pay the astronomic tax rate (75%) President Hollande want to extract from his super-rich constituents, so he says that he'll move to Belgium to avoid being fleeced by his country of origin.

Enters Jean-Marc Ayrault, the socialist prime minister into the debate, who qualifies Depardieu's flight for tax shelter as being “pathetic,” and we have a French revolution.

Here's my take on this:

First Hollande and his government are a bunch of idiots; you don't scare off people who have money and can create wealth; you just tax them fairly, not at the senseless rate they're brandishing. Then, Ayrault, could have – perhaps – avoided name-calling, even though “pathetic” would, in many instances, fit Depardieu.

Finally, Depardieu who, like other artist-expatriate, such as Charles Aznavour, Yannick Noah, Johnny Hallyday, to name just a few are... “pathetic” too, because they make their living from the French public and should be boycotted by their audience if it were a tiny bit more thoughtful...