DECRYPTION – The executive wants to better distribute the bill between the State and individuals but will protect the most modest.
A few weeks before the presentation of the draft budget for 2023, calculators are heating up at Bercy. And for good reason! With rising gas and electricity prices expected to continue next year, the government is facing a real headache. “Depending on the rise in prices, there will be more or less aid, with the idea of focusing it on the most modest”we insist in the government.
During his July 14 interview, Emmanuel Macron had already tried to get the message across. “Can we take all the increases? No. We will gradually have to have an accountability mechanism. I’m just saying that today the taxpayer pays instead of the consumer, so the one who pays in the end is all of us through our taxes.had warned the president.
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It is a reality: with an exploding public debt, still at more than 110% of GDP, the executive knows full well that it will not be able to continue to subsidize energy at all costs…
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