When I used to live in France, I paid between 70% and 75% taxes as a middle class employee. And you keep wondering, where does all the money go?
- Statistics do not look good ? Forbid the statistics - Champion's league final, French/British/Spanish families have been threatened, attacked, stolen by hordes. Let's pretend it was because of the British fans, because a diplomatic crisis with them is a lot easier than weeks of chaos with the people living in Saint-Denis.
The economy looks bad, the idea of having one currency to accommodate countries with vastly different needs is a stupid idea.
Every time a country does not follow order, it gets threatened until it does.
Oh, and of course, the last time we ask the French (for example) in 2005, whether they agreed about the EU Constitution they voted "NO". But somehow, someone decided that it must have been "YES".