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I'm left-leaning, but I'm not quite that far left. I hope this is a bargaining strategy, where you ask for something very extreme to give you negotiating room so that when a compromise is reached, it's closer to what you actually want.
Centrists are simply not going to be able to swallow that, and delivering some form of results to the French voters will be important in maintaining their confidence for voting for the left.
I think 50-75% might be closer to something centrists can stomach, if they get something good in return.
Idk about you, but nobody I personally know makes over $400k per year. (I know it's €, but I'm in the US and the euro and dollar are similar enough in value). I'm in a very wealthy and expensive area of the US, so I know plenty of people who make over $200k. My plant manager probably makes about $300k. Even then, still not over $400k.
Do you or people you know work to earn anywhere close to €400k? If not, (which I strongly suspect,) then I'm not sure why you would balk at that tax rate. Isn't €400k plenty for getting through a year? Can't the rich fucks budget a little better and maybe prepare their own breakfast instead of throwing money away on coffee shop lattes and pastries? I mean, that's roughly the advice they've been giving us poors for 20 years... Doesn't it work?
If somebody is in the position of making over €400k per year, they should be happy to give back to the system and structures that made that possible so that everybody can benefit. There shouldn't be unhoused people freezing to death or hungry people starving to death in the same country that sees salaries that high. Full stop. I say go further. 100% tax over €400k until all people are humanely housed, clothed, and fed, then relieve that back to 90%. It can come down to 80% once 80% of workers has a €50k salary, and again to down to 70% once 70% of workers has a €100k salary. Incentivize these greedy fucks to help themselves by helping others first.
One person, no, but I know families that make about that when both salaries are combined (in the Bay area)
Bay Area has insanely low local purchase power though.