2023-10-17 20:17:22
The title is not misleading. The Republicans (LR) presented their counter-budget on Tuesday October 17. 34 pages thick, the document constitutes a charge “against” a government accused by Olivier Marleix of having made France “the dunce of the European Union” in terms of debt. Always inspired when it comes to charging the Macron camp, the boss of LR deputies mocks “the politics of the dog dying over water” of the executive in terms of budgetary vision. According to the right, the majority is sailing by sight, while France risks being the last European country to bring its public deficit below 3% of GDP in 2027.
The Republicans claim to be the only opposition party to propose an alternative budget. The exercise is very political and resembles a right of response to these members of the majority – often from the ranks of LR – who are very critical of a right judged to have no compass in terms of spending control. This is the case of Eric Woerth. “I am not asking them to take their card from Renaissance but to be consistent if they are a government party concerned with controlling public spending,” confided the Renaissance MP for Oise at the end of September, when his former comrades were preparing to vote against the public finance programming bill.
For Eric Ciotti, on the contrary, it is the government which is not going far enough with its objective of 16 billion euros in savings in its 2024 budget. The president of LR brandishes the figure of 25 billion in savings and the comes with a tax cut of 10 billion for households and businesses. “In the absence of having won the Rugby World Cup, we are European champions of compulsory deductions, quips the MP for Alpes-Maritimes. The objective of this counter-budget is to bring about a reduction in these levies (…) serving the competitiveness and purchasing power of the French. »
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Reduction in inheritance and gift taxes
To be the “party of lower taxes and higher wages”, LR, for example, proposes reducing the contribution on the added value of businesses by one billion euros. Motorists are not forgotten, with a reduction in the tax on the liter of fuel – the domestic consumption tax on energy products – for an amount equivalent to 5 billion euros. Another classic of the right, Eric Ciotti proposes a reduction of two billion euros in inheritance and gift taxes; to perhaps tackle, later, their suppression.
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