Will it happen here.. pigs and flying....! price rise and rubbing hands more like!

PARIS (AFX) - French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy told the
National
Assembly the government may bring forward plans to use surplus receipts
generated from high oil prices to reduce the tax on petrol to Dec 1 2004
from
Jan 1 2005.
Sarkozy yesterday said the government intends to use the receipts to
reduce
the TIPP domestic tax on fuel from Jan 1.
He told parliament yesterday it would be "quite odd for the government
to
benefit from increases in receipts from VAT or the TIPP, and not
redistribute
those to the French people."
paris@afxnews.com
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little woman,

I disagree, it would not go very far at all.

It would help a tiny, tiny bit.

The problem is so much bigger than that even though it is a substantial amount.

It is insignificant compared to the size of the pension shortfall.