" Remember when you claimed censorship under Biden, or grift, or weaponization, and couldn't find any?"
Clear examples of all of those things. You just claim that things that happened didn't actually happen.
More specifically, from the article, this is what I was referring to:
" France's third problem is a government expected to provide for and handle practically everything. French government spending as a percent of GDP is a whopping 57% (versus only 37% in the U.S.).
All that government has bought abysmal growth and stagnant incomes. In the 1980s, France's per capita GDP was roughly 93% of America's. Today it is only 72%, and the median American has about 50% more disposable income than the median Frenchman, after taxes, cash benefits, and differences in purchasing power.
When the government is the largest allocator of resources, people focus their productive energy on persuading it to allocate in their favor. The wealthy and connected do their persuading with lobbyists (or bribes). Everyone else does it in the street. Hence the French pattern: farmers, rail workers, and students always seem to be protesting something.
In a freer economy, people get ahead by focusing their productive energy on providing goods and services that others want. When the state allocates less, there is less to gain by setting buses on fire.
Want to be like France? You know how to vote
Three policies are driving France's slow-motion collapse:
Punitive minimum wage laws that price the young out of work.
Unchecked immigration that ignores cultural compatibility and assimilation.
An overgrown, suffocating state that crushes economic dynamism.
Curiously, these happen to be the crown jewels of the American progressive left. Roughly 90% of all Democrats support doubling the minimum wage. More than 70% of "strong liberals" support removing ALL immigration restrictions. And 79% of Democrats want bigger government, a share that has climbed steeply for 30 years."
It's chess, kid, not checkers. Check back in strategic time.