"Electoral bonus",
"alms"
of 100 euros or
"effective, simple and rapid measure"
: the National Assembly gave Wednesday a first discharge to the "inflation allowance" of the government, by adopting the second budget bill corrigendum (PLFR) for 2021.
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Flagship measure of this PLFR known as
"end of management"
, "the inflation allowance" amounts to 100 euros and will be paid to 38 million French people,
"employees, self-employed, retirees, unemployed, beneficiaries of minimum social benefits, scholarship students , receiving less than 2,000 euros net monthly ”
, recalled the Minister of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt. Its cost to public finances is estimated at 3.8 billion euros.
"This measure will be effective because it is quick and easy to implement,"
praised the minister.
Announced by the Prime Minister in October, it is a new brick in the wall that the government is trying to build to stem the rise in prices, in particular the soaring energy bill, and thus prevent purchasing power from cracking. Emmanuel Macron's assessment a few months before the presidential election in April 2022. Other measures grouped together in “a tariff shield” are discussed in parallel as part of the examination in Parliament of the 2022 draft budget.
"The community's effort is considerable"
, added the general rapporteur LREM of the budget Laurent Saint-Martin, quantifying it at 8 billion euros, between lower revenues and costs.
Eric Coquerel (LFI) denounced
"one-off measures unlike gifts given to the rich"
, launching:
"If Macron does not like peasants, he fears them"
.
Charles de Courson (Liberties and Territories) points out the risks of fraud or windfall, and compares the compensation to an
“electoral bonus”
.
"Spending fever"
Accusation of electoralism resumed on the right, where the deputy LR Véronique Louwagie castigated an
"alms"
of 100 euros, defending rather a
"lower taxes much more just and much simpler"
than said allowance. The elected representative of the Orne also criticized
“the spending fever”
and the
“checkbook policy”
.
“Debt is the last of the government's priorities
,
”
lamented Véronique Louwagie, echoing the concerns of the Chairman of the Finance Committee Eric Woerth who estimates the increase in current spending - excluding the crisis - at 100 billion between 2017 and 2022:
"We continue to live beyond our means"
.
The PLFR transcribes the new economic forecasts for the end of the crisis, with a public deficit reduced to 8.2% of GDP and a public debt of 115.3% of GDP at the end of 2021.
