What sauce are we going to be eaten with? Since we admitted to them the calamitous state of public finances and the urgent need to fill the coffers, the question has tormented the French. We understand them a little: experience has taught them that, in such circumstances, the story always ends the same way, with a fiscal thaw. Not long ago, we swore to them that this time they would escape. There is, it seems, a presidential red line prohibiting any tax increase. The Minister of Finance himself took up his pen to solemnly confirm this.
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Why, then, worry? Because, behind this weakened power without a majority, there is a noisy cacophony. Ignoring the official instructions, some of Emmanuel Macron's supporters consider that we will not solve the equation without new deductions. Gabriel Attal is not left out, he who has just set up a working group to think about the taxation of “rents”
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