Yellow Means Caution: Why the Paris “Yellow Vest” Riots Indicate Legislators Should Be Cautious with Carbon Taxes
Vermont Law
MAY 3, 2019
By Andrew Dinwoodie. In November 2018, thousands of protestors donned with yellow vests stormed the streets of Paris, France with the intent of protesting French President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax increases. While demonstrators protested other policies, Macron’s carbon tax policies initially caused the yellow vest riots. [1]. These protests have forced the French government to deploy as many as 80,000 police officers at one time to quell the protests. [2].
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