.. so to say he left because of it is wrong,
Oh please! While that’s a fair enough point it’s also a very sophistric one, in that there were various ideas being floated in late 2011 about increased tax rates and new taxes, of which Depp is clearly aware – and Hollande’s announcement was made in February 2012. The implication of your precision fact check is that a rate of 70% might have seen him stay.
As far as Mr Bruni is concerned I regarded him as not much less of a tax-grabbing statist than Hollande – just on the off-chance to that you might be coming at this from a partisan angle.
The overall point I was making – which I’m sure you’re well aware of – is that increased tax burdens, irrespective of the precise details, are making even good, little “socialists” like Mr Depp run away – thereby depressing tax revenue. Having said that I’ve no doubt he’ll join the Buffet brigade, just to complete the hypocrisy and incoherence.
