Who will suffer from the 10 billion euros in budget savings announced last week by the government?
Bruno Le Maire took great care to minimize the painful, which nonetheless represents 0.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP), of the annual resources of the country, individuals, its businesses and administrations.
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“We asked the state to tighten its belt. And we have made the choice not to touch the Social Security budget or not to touch the budget of local authorities,”
insisted the Minister of the Economy and Finance.
Emphasizing loud and clear that
“there will be no tax increase”
– the mantra of the macronie – the master of Bercy specified that half of the budget cuts, 5 billion euros, will be made in
“the operating budget of all ministries.
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This presentation tends to make the State an entity above ground which would be distinct from the real country and its population.
“The State is me”
would have said Louis XIV, according to the formula…
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