Commentary : France already has a tax burden of the highest in developed countries. With Mélenchon, it would exceed 50% to a record.
With French federal tax revs at 42% of GDP, they would already be considered a socialist country by Ottawa's standards.
And the Euro could fail at some point in the future. Neoliberal ideology for borrowing money to service debt is a fool's errand. Shrinking economies by austerity will only exacerbate the problem for debt-driven loans issued by wreckless bank lenders to their wreckless bank borrowers. It's economic warfare.
If Mélenchon really wants a socialist economy in France, then he should be proposing some percentage of government-created money and to hell with Euro banksters and their friends on Wall Street.