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Erwan Le Noan: “Not all inequality is injustice”

2022-08-19T17:48:36.381Z


TRIBUNE - The economic decline of the country, and therefore the risk of impoverishment of our fellow citizens, can only worsen if we do not dare to break with the French egalitarian obsession, argues the essayist.


Strategy consultant, member of the scientific council of the Foundation for Political Innovation (liberal think-tank) and lecturer at Sciences Po. Author of

La France des opportunites

(Les Belles Lettres, 2017).

Parliament has just adopted the "purchasing power" law, the essence of which consists in increasing the redistribution effort, already among the highest in the OECD (the share of social expenditure is the highest there). high in European countries, representing a little over a third of GDP and a little over 12,000 euros per inhabitant in 2020, making it possible to considerably reduce inequalities after income).

Insufficient, claimed politicians of all persuasions, considering that it would not be illegitimate to tax a few large companies making “surplus profits”, in the name of “social justice”.

The proposals to increase taxation, yet also one of the most important (the rate of compulsory levies was 47.5% of GDP in 2020 and that of…

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Source: lefigaro

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