Antoine Armand and Francois Durovray in Le Havre, November 7, 2024. (AFP / LOU BENOIST)
“My political family carries a message: it is not by bludgeoning businesses and increasing the cost of labor that we create jobs and growth,” said the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand (Renaissance ) at Le Parisien Wednesday November 20.
Saying your disagreements, “I think we have to do it
within the family and we should not necessarily express it outside.”
This Thursday, November 21, in the morning on
RMC,
the Minister for Transport François Durovray (LR) stepped up to the plate, in an interview given the day before by the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand on employer contributions in particular.
“Be careful of excess tax!”
said Wednesday in an interview with
Parisian
the tenant of Bercy, after the reduction by the Senate of reductions in employer contributions in the Social Security budget. “My political family carries a message: it is not by bludgeoning businesses and increasing the cost of labor that we create employment and growth,” added Minister Renaissance. “We come from different political families and
it's normal for everyone to express their sensitivity”,
retorted this Thursday the Minister for Transport, revealing
disagreements over taxation
within the government.
“Everyone will be judge. But caught in contrary winds,
the Prime Minister maintains his course and does not fall into sterile controversies”,
subsequently assured Matignon, joined by
The Parisian.
“If there is a tax that is useful to businesses, it is this one”
According to François Durovray, Antoine Armand speaks of
mobility payment,
an employer contribution paid by all companies with at least 11 employees “for a very long time” to finance public transport – and which has long been criticized by employers.
“If there is a tax that is useful to businesses, it is this one,”
estimated François Durovray. “Business leaders know very well that they have difficulty hiring because their employees are unable to come and work in the company” and that “when we allow employees to abandon the car which costs very expensive for the benefit of public transport, it is the
best measure of purchasing power”,
defended the Minister for Transport. He evokes a
“collective responsibility”
on the subject of public transport which makes it possible to “divide (the) cost of mobility by ten”.
Gabriel Attal, president of the deputies Ensemble pour la République (EPR, which includes the Renaissance elected officials), judged
“fair and responsible”
the position of the Minister of the Economy, welcomed by his political family. The elimination of reductions in charges, even reduced to 3 billion euros by the Senate on Tuesday evening – compared to 4 billion in the initial text of the draft Social Security budget (PLFSS) – displeases businesses and the Macronist camp, because they seem
go against the policy of supply
sustained almost flawlessly since 2017.
