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The government reluctant to focus the recovery on consumption

2021-05-19T16:40:07.641Z


In 2020, the average purchasing power of the French was maintained thanks to massive support from the public authorities.


At a time of questions about the need to strengthen the recovery plan, the government remains very reluctant to support avenues for consumption.

Among the devices that could benefit from a possible extension next September, Bruno Le Maire thus mentioned in priority investment programs in sectors of the future such as hydrogen.

On the demand side, the only measure that still seems in the air remains that proposed by the Minister of the Economy for a relaxation of the taxation of donations, a device however criticized in the majority because it focuses on wealthy households.

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No trace, on the other hand, of consumer vouchers - whether or not targeted at ecological transition -, the principle of which is nevertheless defended by many experts and economists such as the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), attached to Matignon, the think- progressive tank Terra Nova, its liberal equivalent the Institut Montaigne, and even the Citizen's Convention for the Climate.

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Source: lefigaro

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