Lhe debates on the reduction of public deficits in France, which should amount, in 2024, to more than 5% of the annual gross domestic product (GDP), or around 150 billion euros, systematically concern increases in taxes and/or reductions in public spending.
Without refraining from studying more aggressive taxation on income considered speculative – for example superprofits not serving investment -, or a reduction in social expenditure considered non-productive – for example reimbursements for medicines at the questionable therapeutic effectiveness – it is clear that decisions in this area lead to an impasse.
On the one hand, in fact, France is already one of the developed countries with the highest compulsory taxes in the world (48% of GDP). Did this prevent public deficits? Obviously, no.
On the other hand, reductions in social spending would have an immediate effect on consumption, and therefore on the mutilation of our already very weak growth, not to mention the populist reactions that they secrete and which turn out to be a real democratic poison. A preferable way out of the impasse would ask political leaders to look more carefully at how GDP is produced, from which public budgets derive most of their resources, through taxes.
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