The debate is tenacious.
He now places the two main members of the government, Élisabeth Borne and Bruno Le Maire, on divergent lines.
Narrowly dismissed by parliamentarians at the end of July, the idea of an exceptional tax on large corporate profits is no longer ruled out by the Prime Minister.
But she remains firmly rejected by her Minister of the Economy.
The first
"does not close the door"
to this proposal, she said on Saturday in an interview with Le
Parisien
, in the event that the companies concerned refuse to
"return purchasing power to the French"
.
According to her,
"No one would understand that companies are making exceptional profits even though the French may be worried about their purchasing power."
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The second persists:
"I don't know what a superprofit is"
, he repeated on Tuesday in front of the Medef entrepreneurs in Paris.
While Élisabeth Borne takes up the term on her own, Bruno Le Maire judges that it
“does not make sense”
–
“companies…
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