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When Taxes Expose Injustice

When Taxes Expose Injustice It all started with a few cents per liter of diesel. A measure presented as “environmentally friendly,” pushed by a government that portrays itself as a champion of the climate but which, in reality, is making the least well-off pay for the energy transition. Just one more injustice. But one injustice too many. Because the problem isn’t the tax itself. The problem is what it reveals: a deeply unequal tax system, where someone earning the minimum wage pays proportionally much more than a millionaire, where the sales tax hits everyone equally without regard to...

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Digital Identity, Widespread Surveillance: The End of Citizen Anonymity

Digital Identity, Widespread Surveillance: The End of Citizen Anonymity For centuries, privacy was a natural right. People could live their lives without the government knowing everything about them. They could move about without leaving a trace. Think without being watched. Those days are gone—and their end did not come about through a coup d’état, but through a series of small bureaucratic decisions, laws passed at midnight, and technologies deployed in silence. The 2015 Intelligence Act authorizes the government to conduct surveillance without a judge’s approval, based solely on...

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