2023-05-17 10:30:21
The middle classes are subject to “taxation” of their income “too great” and which “is accelerating too quickly”, according to the head of state, eager to turn the tide. Seventyfour / stock.adobe.com
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, has placed this variable-geometry social category at the heart of the policy of his second five-year term.
The middle class is back on the political scene. The executive, starting with the Head of State, uses and abuses this socio-economic concept, placing these French people “who are too rich to be helped and not rich enough to live well” – in the words of Emmanuel Macron – at the heart of the next four years of his five-year term. To flesh out the concept, the presidential majority bases its definition on the notion of work. The middle class refers tothese French people who work and want to make a better living from their job“Commented the government spokesperson at the end of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, using the words of the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, who recently opposed “working middle class” To “those who can to accommodate ministerswith pans.
Before this association of ideas with political overtones, the middle class was first of all an old sociological observation. The capitalist economy has seen the emergence…
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