Will this be the end of the honeymoon between the Government and Medef? “Yes, maybe,” the president of the association, Patrick Martin, responded this Tuesday. Guest on BFM Business, the new “boss of bosses” expressed his concern about several “signals” sent by the 2024 budget that would call into question the supply policy applied for six years by Emmanuel Macron.
“It contributed to less degraded public finances”
But precisely the supply policy has contributed to public finances being less degraded,” continued the president of Medef.
“We are concerned because there is a form of contradiction between the very pro-business words, in favor of the supply policy, and the actions,” he added, pointing out the planned increase in the budget for Ile-de’s mobility payment. -French companies will finance public transport: “Companies already pay 8 billion euros a year for public transport, of which 5 billion in Ile-de-France. This goes against the pro-business discourse.
“It is a very French disease to create random taxes”
The president of Medef also denounced the establishment of a tax on transport infrastructure managers: “It is a questioning of the State’s word because these concessionaires have contracts. (…) It is a questioning of this supply policy,” he insisted .
According to him, “it is a very French disease to create taxes at random.” And deplore this “great problem of our country” of wanting to “regulate everything in the lives of people, companies and the public sphere.”
Patrick Martin thus called for more freedom to “create growth and jobs”, having “trust in private actors”. He before asking the Government to “face the heart of the problem, that is, the control and, if possible, the reduction of the current operating costs” of the State.
Source: BFM TV
