2023-05-24 17:23:33
The former architect of Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 program suggests “an exceptional flat-rate levy of 5%, within a thirty-year window», for the 10% of the wealthiest households. Ludovic MARIN/AFP / stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – The proposal put forward by the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry in the report submitted to Elisabeth Borne on Monday is debating.
Pushed initially by Greenpeace and environmental activists, then by several left-wing presidential candidates in 2022, the idea of a “Climate ISFis making a comeback in the public debate. And this by a more unexpected voice: that of the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry, one of the architects of Emmanuel Macron’s economic program in 2017. In a report commissioned by Élisabeth Borne and published Monday by France Stratégie, the professor at Sciences Po Paris proposes to finance the ecological transition via, in part, “a dedicated levy, explicitly temporary (…), based on the financial assets of the wealthiest households».
Among economists, this proposal is far from unanimous…
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