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Jean-Pierre Robin: "The ecological transition will require an overall reform of our taxation"

2021-10-24T15:31:19.801Z


CHRONICLE - Offsetting the carbon tax by helping the poorest will not be enough. The rift that appeared in November 2018, at the birth of the “yellow vests” movement, between those who fear “the end of the month and“ the end of the world ”for others, is back. Will we one day be able to reconcile the fight against global warming, which implies whether we like it or not high energy prices to save it, and the defense of the purchasing power of the most modest penalized by multipl


The rift that appeared in November 2018, at the birth of the “yellow vests” movement, between those who fear “the end of the month and“ the end of the world ”for others, is back.

Will we one day be able to reconcile the fight against global warming, which implies whether we like it or not high energy prices to save it, and the defense of the purchasing power of the most modest penalized by multiple ways by the high cost of energy?

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Beyond the short-term tinkering proposed by the political spectrum - from the ecologist Yannick Jadot, supporter of energy checks to Marine Le Pen who asks the State to

"give the money back to the French"

by lowering taxes - everything however, the world more or less agrees: the green transition will be socially fair or it will not.

Three years ago the carbon tax frozen sine die by the government of Édouard Philippe was the expiatory victim of the popular revolt.

Since then the socio-economic problem has been identified

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Source: lefigaro

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