Demonstration against austerity and for the sharing of wealth

Between 500 and 600 persons demontrated today against the austerity measures decided by the French government. Several trade unions, but not all, had launched an appeal to their supporters to join the demonstration which gathered on Ralliement square, then walked throughout streets of Angers down town. The main demands of the demonstrators are a stop of the austerity policy and another sharing of wealthnesses among people.

(A former demonstration in 2010)

The leaders of the event have denounced the increase of the value added tax which is the same for the low and high income households while "it should be proportional to those incomes". Some criticized the "gifts" to private companies "without economic and social duties". Others claimed that the present capitalist model does not fit to workers and constitutes something the government has imposed to citizens.

If the austerity measures are already tough, and will probably become tougher in the months to come, the demonstrators content themselves with the sharing of wealthnesses among people and do not not worry about the ways the wealthnesses have beeen created and how to increase them. It's also original to consider that competitiveness measures are "gifts". It's widely considered that France, as well as many others countries, has lived beyond its means with deficitary budgets while others didn't have the minimum ressources to finance basic needs.