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Date Posted: 14:45:03 10/11/02 Fri
Author: BP
Subject: I knew I hated the French. Maybe if their bitches shaved their pits, they wouldn't hate porn.

France to Slap 93 Pct 'Supertax' on Porn Films
Fri Oct 11, 8:53 AM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will hike taxes on profits from sexually explicit films to 93 percent as part of an anti-pornography drive by ruling conservatives.

This was one of several proposals to fight pornography to emerge from the center-right majority elected in June. Several deputies want to ban X-rated films from television, but others in the conservative ranks oppose this as censorship.

"Our aim is to make this sector financially unattractive," right-wing parliament deputy Charles de Courson told Le Figaro daily on Friday after parliament's finance committee agreed his initiative would be applied from January 1 next year.

Courson said the measure would raise to 60 percent from 33 percent a special tax already levied on profits from the production, distribution or showing of any French-made film deemed pornographic or an incitement to violence.

Once added to France's standard 33 percent tax on all corporate profits, French porn film-makers will be left with a mere seven percent of their profits net of tax.

"We want to destroy their profitability to discourage further investments," Courson said.

Imported porn will not be spared either. If a separate measure is agreed in negotiations continuing this week for the 2003 budget, full-length foreign productions will face a tax of 91,470 euros ($90,390), with half that for short films.

Emboldened by their landslide victory in June elections, many conservatives believe the time is ripe to take aim at France's tradition of cultural permissiveness.

France's TV watchdog CSA, headed by right-winger Dominique Baudis, has called for the government to ban the X-rated films that have been shown on late-night subscription television channels for years. A decision is expected from next week.

The Interior Ministry is also studying a possible ban on the new novel "Rose Bonbon," which has gained notoriety for its graphic portrait of a pedophile murderer.

Human rights groups and bastions of France's liberal tradition such as the influential Le Monde daily have cried foul, saying ruling conservatives under President Jacques Chirac are on a repressive moral crusade.

But Courson noted the new porn film "supertax" gained the backing of opposition left-wingers in a vote at an overnight sitting which ended early Thursday.

"Both right and left are in agreement. The left's position on this issue has changed a lot," he added. ($1=1.012 Euro)

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[> I think the French conservatives are making the correct move here. Porn should be outlawed in France. The French don't deserve porn. -- Homeskillet, 16:45:31 10/11/02 Fri

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[> Shouldn't the tax be for the films that do not meet quality control? -- SM, 15:27:20 10/19/02 Sat

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[> Poor guys -- Tontine, 08:43:53 05/23/03 Fri

You hate the French, but me, I hate the americains that are stupid and naive enough to follow GW Bush when :

- no WMD has been founded in Irak : all Bush rethorics used in order to justify the war were lies, but all americans swallowed what said the dominant media and waved their flags

- Bagdad has been looted. What did the US army ? Protect the oil minister and let all the looters rob the museums. All Bush rethorics about America's "grandeur", america's values : freedom, liberty, democraty ... were lies. What was just important for your was oil.

- you believe Bush when he says that he wants to bring democracy and destitute a terrible dictator. Let me laugh ... You, America, you have brought to power many dictators : the shah in Iran, Pinochet in Chilia, you have sold guns and weapons to the talibans ... You are so pure, so that you can give us lessons !!!!

- you defend values like the right against the evil, liberty, freedom ..... but you refuse to sign for the international penal court, you refuse that such an organization could have a look on the behavior of your soldiers. Sorry, your soldiers are so pures that they can only be above all this

- pollution, natural resources waste, global atmosphere warming are a real danger for the future of our planet , but Bush and the America refuse to sign the Kyoto protocol, America just refuse to restrain itself when it's the biggest polluter on the planet.

Have a look to yourselves, you americans.

You are all so fat,
You are the biggest polluters on the planet,
You are flowding us with your so-called culture, your hollywood films, your mcdonalds food, your genetically modified seeds, your wild deregulation.

have a look at you !

The country of so-called freedom, where nobody can disagree with the war in Irak (see the dixie chicks).

So, STOP GIVING UP LESSONS !
Stop thinking that you are better than us.

Look at yourselves !!!!
Maybe you'll not like what you'll see.

Me, I do not like what I see.
And I am not the only one on earth.

We were millions to demonstrate in Europe the 15th of February, againt your imperialism.
If you go on like this, all the planet will hate you.
Is it really what you want ?

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[> [> What a fucking freak. -- Roscoe, 16:06:23 05/24/03 Sat

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[> [> [> Well Howdy doo Roscoe! It sure is right as rain to here from you! Where in the wide, wide world of sports have you been. -- Xavier Xealot, 16:00:54 10/16/03 Thu

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