History Proves It: Lessons Learned Part 34

There is great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the election of the new French leader (who may actually BE a socialist, unlike the current PotUS) and his call to tax the richest French citizens 75% of their income. There is an assurance that everybody in France who is rich will surely simply stop making money, having lost all interest in being rich.

I think the Beatles proved this in 1966 when they discovered that the Crown would be taking 95% of their earnings (one for you, nineteen for me) and they simply stopped working, and the world never saw another Beatles album again as JPG&R lived on the dole like the wacky students in The Young Ones.