The budget of French Polynesia will be discussed next month in the Assembly but yesterday the budget session was an opportunity to recall that with more than 50 billion cfp (51 billion cfp to be exact), the country's coffers are full as they are have never been…For him, it is not due to “the good management of the Country”.
Last night in our news, Nuihau Laurey, unlabelled representative to the Polynesian assembly, stressed that this is the first time that the country's coffers are so full, more than 50 billion cfp which are first “intended for investment to enable the development of economic activity”. He regretted that“there are very few projects launched by the Country…which poses big problems”. And to add that“the Country is not a bank”.
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“This amount is historically high, this is not due to good management of the country, [mais] rather to inflation, to prices which have increasedand most taxes are price-based. So it is normal that the country collects more and more money… And it's time to lower taxes. Because a lot of money in the country's coffers means a lot of money in the pockets of citizens.”remarked the former Minister of the Economy.
Listen to this extract from the representative of A here ia Porinetia:
