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Agnès Verdier-Molinié: “To fill the public deficit, picking the pockets of the French and their businesses is no longer the solution”

2024-03-26T20:45:16.894Z

Highlights: Agnès Verdier-Molinié: “To fill the public deficit, picking the pockets of the French and their businesses is no longer the solution” The 2023 budget shows a deficit of 16 billion euros. “No one seems ready to take responsibility for the gigantic 154 billion public deficit. This is a serious matter that involves us all and could cost us dearly,” he says. The sequence is simply astonishing. We have the best technologists at Bercy, whether they are ministers or in our major departments, they went to the best schools, they would not have seen the iceberg of the 2023 deficit coming.


TRIBUNE - While the 2023 budget shows a deficit of 16 billion euros, wanting to clean up public finances by increasing taxes would be a serious error, believes the director of iFrap.


Agnès Verdier-Molinié

is director of the iFrap Foundation (liberal think tank).

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The sequence is simply astonishing.

We have the best technologists at Bercy, whether they are ministers or in our major departments, they went to the best schools, they know everything about everything and they would not have seen the iceberg of the 2023 deficit coming?

The biggest deficit outside the crisis that the Fifth Republic has carried?

Impossible to believe, especially since all the elements have been there since last July to suggest that public revenues would be lower and spending higher.

Surprisingly, no one seems ready to take responsibility for the gigantic 154 billion public deficit.

This is a serious matter that involves us all and could cost us dearly.

At the time when we should have reacted strongly, last summer, we were in the process of changing the Minister of Accounts...

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Source: lefigaro

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