The Plaque at the foot of the Statue has nothing to do with the original Statue,and is a collectivist affront,and a total contradiction to the Values enshrined in the US Constitution!
I'm French and I'm astonished by the misrepresentation of the yellow vest movement by American commentators. Yes the movement started against a tax, but it is not an anti-tax-as-such movement at all. This is what pro-liberty activist would like to believe, but unfortunately it's not true. Check the list of what the yellow vest demands. They want less taxes for the poor, AND much more taxes for the rich, AND much more State. This movement is totally a "good-intentions movement", or even worst. Let me translate you some of their demands:
- Zero homeless - Increased Income Taxes (more slices) - Raise the minimum wage - Favor small businesses in villages and city centers. Stop the construction of large commercial areas around major cities that kill the small business) + free parking in city centers. - Large Housing Isolation Plan - The BIG (McDonald's, Google, Amazon ...) must pay LOT and the smalls (small businesses ...) pay small - Same social security system for all - Socialized pension system (no pensions in point) - end of the fuel tax increasing - All elected representatives must be paid according to the median salary of French - Salaries and pensions of all French must be indexed to inflation - Protecting French industry: make relocation illegal (thus protect our knowledge and our jobs.) - End of detached work - limit the number of fixed-term contracts for large companies More permanent contract. - Creating jobs for unemployed - No salary higher than 15 000€ - Increasing money for the disabled - Control the price of rents - nationalization of gas and electricity etc, etc, etc, etc. I can't translate everything
If you want to understand the yellow vest movement, just read an article by Frédéric Bastiat, written in 1848, called "The State" (quite short and easy to find on the Internet in english) where he explains the contradiction of French people asking for more State and less taxes.
Referendums in the United Kingdom are very occasionally held at a national, regional or local level. National referendums can be permitted by an Act of Parliament and regulated through the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, but they are by tradition extremely rare due to the principle of parliamentary sovereignty meaning that they cannot be constitutionally binding on either the Government or Parliament, although they usually have a persuasive political effect. WIKI
seems someone sold the People a phony Bill of Sale!
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RE: French move closer to revolution
You poor little Shipdit!