France is a notorious high-tax country. These statements of Le Maire just sound like desperate attemps
to paint the current and upcoming taxation of cryptocurrencies as an inevitable outcome.
People should be free to do whatever they want with their money and losing more than half of it
to the state, who uses it to fund questionable endeavours (e.g. intervening in Libya, which has now
turned to a real shithole) is outright theft.
I hope that France one day will implement a more friendly taxation environment for
crytocurrencies like several other European countries like Austria or Germany have already done.
I hate this socialist attitude pushed by France and cheered by most of the EU. Their tax policy is a total rip-off, but it wouldn't be that bad if the money were well spent. Unfortunately the money is being wasted on their stupid ideas like taking a bunch of muslim refugees and giving them allowances, which lead to terrorist attacks and protests, and those attacks and protests aren't something you can sweep under the rug. It requires a lot of money. Tax money.
In the aftermath France had to up security, put more police on the streets, which also costs money, and now they're in desperate need of even more money because suddenly France is no longer a popular tourist destination.
