Algerian Muslims earned roughly one-thirtieth of European earnings yet paid proportionally heavier taxes.

Evidence

For a Muslim average earnings throughout Algeria were estimated at 16,000 francs a year — whereas the European equivalent was 450,000 francs, or nearly thirty times as high. At the same time, the taxes he paid on his meagre pittance seemed unfairly weighted. It was reckoned that the 100,000 most impoverished Algerian families might be milked of twelve per cent of their incomes; while at the other end of the scale the 14,000 best off (of whom 10,000 were European), with incomes five times higher than the average for French families, were called upon to pay only twenty-nine per cent of earnings vastly larger than those of the Muslims. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in colonial economic exploitation underlying the ‘Savage War of Peace’ concept. — connects to: Muslim Algerians earned thirty times less than Europeans yet bore heavier tax burdens; A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims; One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91

Related

• Muslim Algerians earned thirty times less than Europeans yet bore heavier tax burdens (similarity 0.95)
• Roughly three million Algerian Muslims faced serious underemployment by 1955 (similarity 0.83)
• A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled (similarity 0.81)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.80)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian workers in France lived in squalor while remitting vital billions home. (similarity 0.79)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria #corroborates (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91
• A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims #corroborates (0.60)