Emotion is valid, but we could have done without these controversies, even if, these days, speaking without knowing what we’re talking about or criticizing decisions before they’re made has become a national sport.
To the cry, “the rich give and the poor pay”, the most exhausted did not refrain from criticizing the “billionaires” who announced substantial donations within the first hours following the Notre-Dame tragedy.
According to these new Robespierres, they were taking advantage of the opportunity to refurbish their image by heavily tax deducting their donations. Opportunists, of course!
What was missing was just a call for confiscation and then…
Luckily, Edouard Philippe’s Government announced the presentation “as early as next week” of a draft law to provide a “legal framework” for donations made for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris.
This text will include – according to the statement – in particular a special tax reduction of 75% for individual donations up to 1,000 euros, and 66% beyond that amount.
As for companies, they “will benefit from tax reductions, known as patronage, under the current conditions” (60% tax reduction).
So we’re back to square one, which shows that all these speculations had no basis.
The German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” (1921), explained well that language must have a logical meaning…
In other words, one is not obliged to speak, and when one doesn’t know, one must remain silent.
