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France’s government and business——Angry pigeons
法国政府和商业：愤怒的鸽子
An online revolt forces the government into an embarrassing tax climb down
在线的抗议活动迫使政府陷入税收让步的窘境
Usually it takes millions of demonstrators on the streets to force a French government to back down. This time it took just 65,000 supporters of a social media campaign. Calling themselves les pigeons, or “suckers”, French entrepreneurs mounted an online revolt last week against the government’s plan to double capital-gains tax to some 60%. In an embarrassing climb down just days later, Pierre Moscovici, the finance minister, announced he would think again.
在通常情况下，几百万的群众在大街上进行抗议游行才会迫使政府为此做出让步。但是这次只有65000名在社交网站上自称“鸽子”，意为“傻瓜”支持者就完成了此项壮举。那是由法国企业家所发起的一次网上抗议活动，用来反抗上周对资本利得税翻倍至升至60%的政府法案。几天后政府窘迫的做出了一个让步，社会党人——财政部长 Pierre Moscovici, 宣布，他将会就此作出讨论。
These indignés of the start-up generation, protesting not at capitalism but at the Socialist government’s plans to limit their ability to make lots of money, were inspired by a newspaper article by Jean-David Chamboredon, a venture capitalist, denouncing new rules in the 2013budget. In line with a campaign promise by Francois Hollande, the Socialist president, to tax “work and capital” equally, the budget tax...