2023-08-16 21:55:34
“Who are the despoiled? A report by the bank UBS placing France on the podium of the countries with the most millionaires provokes the indignation of several left-wing politicians, who denounce an explosion of inequalities and the policy of Emmanuel Macron. “French millionaires can say thank you to Macron’s tax gifts”, reacted on X (ex-Twitter) the leader of La France Insoumise in the European Parliament, Manon Aubry.
Le « Global Wealth Report », annual report of the Swiss bank UBS published on Tuesday, counts in 2022 more than 2.8 million people in France whose real estate and financial assets exceed one million dollars (around 915,000 euros). A figure slightly up on last year, with 25,000 additional millionaires, but which remains stable over two years, according to previous reports from Credit Suisse – recently acquired by UBS.
“300,000 homeless, 10 million poor”
“Meanwhile, there are 300,000 homeless people, 10 million poor people, one in two French people is forced to skip a meal,” indignantly rebellious deputy Thomas Portes.
Olivier Faure, he focuses on another data of the report: the 3,890 “ultra-rich”, who have a heritage of more than 50 million dollars. “Who are the despoiled? », pretends to wonder the first secretary of the Socialist Partywhich pits these millionaires against the nine million people below the poverty line.
While thousands of young people are queuing in front of the food bank, people are dying on the streets, French people are skipping meals and giving up treatment, a handful are stuffing themselves with money thanks to Macron. Not a President but an investment banker in commissioned service.
— Thomas Doors (@Doors_Thomas) August 16, 2023
others, like the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau, mock the image of “fiscal hell” regularly attached to France, to better point the finger at the economic and fiscal policy of the President of the Republic. “This is the Americanization of France imposed by forced march by Emmanuel Macron”.
“We need a better distribution of wealth”
The number of millionaires in the country is not the only angle of attack from the left, which denounces Emmanuel Macron as the “president of the rich” since the start of his mandate, and in particular the abolition of the wealth tax .
The fortune of personalities like Bernard Arnault, at the head of the LVMH group (owner of the “Parisian” – “Today in France”), who regularly disputes the title of the richest man in the world to Elon Musk, is also put forward as proof of inequalities. “The Arnault family has benefited this year from an additional 2.9 billion in dividends (…) We need a better distribution of wealth, so that we all live better,” said rebellious deputy Alexis Corbière on Europe 1. Only 400,000 in 2000, the French millionaires could be more than 4 million in 2027, according to the report published by UBS.
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