Jacques Attali, economist and writer, estimated this Monday night on BFMTV that it was necessary to “end as soon as possible” with the debate on the pension reform.
“In the short time that the President of the Republic has to act, it was not the priority,” he said.
He, who had proposed retirement by points in 2008, now considers that “true priorities come before pensions.” “Our education is going very badly, our health system is catastrophic, the climatic deadlines are enormous, public services are going very badly, we have to reform the institutions,” he explained.
Tax the richest?
Jacques Attali then mentioned the 13,000 million euros that, according to the Government, would be missing from the pension system in 2030 if the reform does not come into force as soon as possible.
“I prefer a thousand times to put 13,000 million in education than in a hypothetical pension deficit,” pleaded the writer, who in any case admitted that it was necessary “perhaps to do something about pensions.”
These potential deficit billions, Jacques Attali would have gone “to look for them in the taxes on the richest”, although he does not believe in the taxation of super profits.
Whatever happens, the 79-year-old economist deplored the government’s approach to recoup this sum through the pension system. “When we easily find 500 billion for many things without much difficulty, we could have found some for pensions,” he suggested.
Source: BFM TV
