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A comment on France's homegrown open source online office suite. Parent comment

Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by irishcoffee on Saturday February 07, 2026 @11:47AM (#46925246)
> taxes are the primary mechanism for converting money from rich people into services for everybody

Even California billionaires would rather leave the state than pay the 5% wealth tax. All to provide “services” that are generally superfluous or tied to corrupt kickbacks.

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Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite by etiennebausson on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:01PM (#46929186)
You seems to mistake a corruption/grift problem for a wealth redistribution scheme issue.

They do not need to be linked, they generally aren't, in the EU at least.

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