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Re:ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50% by umanwizard on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @11:46AM (#10939347)
France spent a third of its budget on bombing Syria? Seriously?
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Re:ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50% by seren on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:20PM (#10939624)
The income tax is a tiny part of France budget. Most of its revenue is a combination of VAT, energy tax, corporate taxes, etc.
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Re:ISIS cuts its fighters' salaries by 50% by umanwizard on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:20PM (#10940133)
So what does it mean to say that the EUR 800 came from income tax? Doesn't everything (mostly) just go into one general fund?
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