Successive French governments have attempted to buy social peace through ever increasing social spending. The level of state expenditures has now reached 57 percent of gross domestic product; social spending is the highest among major developed nations at 31 percent of GDP. The spending spree has been financed by debt, now around 100 percent of GDP and by heavily taxing labor. The French one-earner family is now the most heavily taxed among developed countries.
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