I gave you the numbers in my article as to how many jobs were created in 1997-2002. Do you deny this? All studies suggest that the 35-hour week directly created 400,000 jobs, and contributed to the generally more upbeat mood in France

Again as to personal misery, you point out to anectodal evidence - I pointed you to actual numbers on poverty, unemployment and the like. Do you have any actual macro numbers you'd like to point to? Anectodally, I can point you to just as many inverse cases, which prove just as little as your own anectodes.

As to the wealth tax, do you know how little 2 people per day are? That's 7,000 over 10 years, to be compared to almost 100 times that who have more than one million dollars in net assets in France. so that's like 1% of the rich that moved in 10 years, an insignificant number for people that are anyway on the move a lot (remember what "jet" means in "jet set"?). The wealth tax certainly does not cost more than it collects - unless you can point to actual numbers again, not the spin from politically- or personally- interested operatives. The little guy certainly does not pay for the wealth tax (unless, again, you have actual information to that respect, rather than soundbites and spin).

You want anectode? As a banker, I am paid more in Paris than in London, for the exact same job, after tax, housing and school costs.

and just for your info: France attracts educated foreigners from rich countries, whereas the UK actually exports them:

Give me facts, not anectode.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes