France’s ‘yellow vests’ want to have their cake and eat it too

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For the fourth straight weekend in a row, protesters donning their “gilets jaunes” in Paris continued their rioting, expanding the scope of their demands to the economically implausible.

President Emmanuel Macron correctly ended the much maligned and environmentally unnecessary gas tax that had initiated the riots, but the protesters still aren’t happy. Quite simply, the yellow vests want to have their cake and eat it too.

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