National priority, taxes on excess profits and share buybacks: two deputies from the National Rally detailed on Thursday the savings options recommended by the far-right party to fill the public deficit and one of them is for the less surprising: the deletion of regions.
We must tackle the “great taboos of Bercy”, said the deputy president of the RN group in the Assembly, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, at the microphone of RMC. The MP notably called for an end to “the mismanagement in the administrative mille-feuille”. He defended the removal of “the political level of the greater region”. “We need to get the departments to collaborate with each other, that will be more than enough,” he said, recalling his proposal to create “a single mandate” for these two levels: “the territorial advisor”.
“The mayors of small towns no longer know who to talk to”
Jean-Philippe Tanguy also proposed to “significantly reduce” the number of intercommunities, “too big or too expensive, with a lot of support function expenses”. “We removed the country guard to put communications directors everywhere in France,” he lamented. According to the far-right elected official, “the mayors of small towns no longer know who to talk to”.
The Somme MP also cited a marker of the far-right party, “the national priority for non-contributory social assistance”, such as the RSA, which according to him would save “at least 16 billion euros”.
A proposed temporary tax on superprofits
Questioned on RTL, RN deputy Sébastien Chenu, for his part, defended the temporary taxation of excess profits, for profits not relating to "business strategy" but linked to "governmental decisions", such as "large distribution" during the Covid-19 period.
He also advocated taxing “stock buybacks.” We must “encourage companies to reinvest their profits and not simply to circulate money between them,” he argued.