France

“Between the year 2000 and the year 2016, 25% of millionaire households emigrated out of France during this period. And the amount of tax revenue that was lost during that period of time Was greater than the new revenue generated from the wealth tax that was in…”

“Now it's reported that Starlink is faster than the fixed broadband average in Belgium, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, New Zealand, and France.”

“France, which is, you know, sort of coming undone under this populist fight is probably a canary in the coal mine for how this stuff could play out in other places.”

“It's actually more permissive than any European country. But nobody knows that. France actually only allows abortion up to 14 weeks. Germany is like 16. So we're 20 here, so we're more liberal than Europe.”

“So for the UK and France, the gap is ten million a year that you have to fund out of pocket.”

“Argentina at this time was wealthier than France or Germany. Twice as wealthy as Spain and had one of the top 10 highest GDP per capita of any nation on earth in 1913.”

“So what's going to happen is you're just going to have basically a log jam.”

“Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Great Britain, every great world power has buckled under the weight of a government that hands out the largesse, right, that, that everyone's got their hand in the pot, and they buckle, and that's how they lose their place in the w…”

“Like, the two best math cultures in the world are Russia and France, and like, we hire ad nauseum from France.”

“84,000 politically motivated communications crimes in Germany, 6000 defined hate crimes based on speech in France.”

“In France in 1988, 1989, they passed this millionaire tax. Anyone with 1.3 million euro or greater net worth had to pay a tax of like one percent a year, one and a half percent a year of their total assets. And it raised four to five billion euro a year in new…”

“You can look at the UK and you can look at Germany and you can look at France and you have to ask yourself is the cultural deviation from where they were, has it been better? Or worse for those countries. And I think in general, it has been worse.”

“The cost to produce a gigawatt of nuclear power in the US today is like fifteen billion dollars. The cost in France is four, and the cost in China is one.”