Members of the government repeat it in unison: the way out of the crisis will not be through tax increases. Tired of weeks of confinement, worried about their health, pessimistic about the capacity of the executive to get out of this crisis, the French seem, it is true, little inclined to support a new turn of the fiscal screw.
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Restoring public accounts by increasing the levies would also not make economic sense, as the beginning of François Hollande's five-year term demonstrated. Higher taxes had dampened economic growth.
Preserving national unity
" Beware of false good solutions which, in the past, have contributed to increase unemployment and to destroy confidence ", thus pleaded Gérald Darmanin, in response to the request of the left to restore the ISF. " It is not taxes that will finance current spending but growth ," says Bruno Le Maire. Without being technically credible, the sentence demonstrates a clear political will. It's about
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