The rapporteur of the general budget of the National Assembly, Philippe Juvin (LR), indicated that he is not hostile to a reduction of the general social contribution (CSG) in the next budget bill, although he insisted on Saturday on the need to reduce spending in an interview with the Tribune.
For the rapporteur of the general budget, however, “our room for maneuver is focused more on expenses than on income”, in a France “world champion in taxes and fees.”
The parliamentarian evokes the example of the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, who managed to restore his country’s public finances in the 1990s by carrying out a general review of state spending, while recognizing that “we will not be able to have such an ambition this autumn.”
“A mistake” rules out 49-3
The planned reduction in state spending of 6 billion euros seems “insufficient” and mentions other ways of saving, such as state medical aid (AME) or public services.
“We are too indifferent to the debt problem,” according to Juvin, for whom the goal of returning to a deficit below 3% in 2029 must absolutely be met. A variation of 0.1 points of GDP, “is an allocation of 3,000 million euros,” he recalls.
The deputy also proclaims his hostility to the abandonment of the pension reform: “How could France’s word remain credible before the markets and our European partners if we suspended one of the only real structuring reforms of recent years? It would be a serious mistake to make such a decision,” he stated.
Furthermore, “it is a mistake to immediately rule out the possibility of using article 49-3,” because “it is depriving ourselves of a constitutional instrument that has allowed budgets to be approved in recent years,” warns Juvin.
Source: BFM TV
