The Republicans will propose “many more savings” than the 16 billion expected in the 2024 budget project, their leader in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, stated this Wednesday, who wants to “put the State in trouble.”
“16 billion savings are nothing” because they are mainly based on stopping “exceptional measures” such as the energy shield, Bruno Retailleau told Europe 1/CNews.
“We are going against the wall”
“Most ministries will see their expenses increase,” he estimated. “We are going against the wall, we have more than 3 billion euros of debt (…) Interest rates are skyrocketing and one day we will have a serious problem,” she warned. For Bruno Retailleau, this situation will last “as long as the State does not get to work to guarantee what corresponds to it, its sovereign missions in terms of security and the restoration of public services.”
“How can we explain that we are the country that collects the most taxes in the world, that we have the highest public spending in the world and yet we have a collapse of public services throughout France?” he asked.
“Tax loopholes deserve reconsideration”
For his part, the president of the centrist Union group in the Senate, Hervé Marseille, also considered that “16 billion savings are not enough” because “the debt burden is becoming monstrous.”
“The difference with our Republican partners is that we want savings but also fiscal leverage, therefore measures that allow us to recover income margins,” he declared in the Public Senate. “There are tax loopholes that deserve to be reconsidered,” he considered in particular.
Source: BFM TV
