Attacked by the oppositions, the executive puts forward his balance sheet to show that the five-year fifth has benefited the whole population, and not only to the easiest.
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Clear the image of “President of the rich”. Show that the quinquennate has not only benefited from the wealthiest, but all the French, including the most modest. The rise in prices and the purchasing power imposing among the major concerns at this end of the crisis, the executive does not hear the oppositions occupy the ground. And seizes the chance of the 2022 budget, examined in the Committee on Finance of the Assembly, Tuesday 5 and Wednesday, 6 October, to recall the measures taken in favor of the purchasing power of households for five years.
At the same time, while the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced, Thursday, September 30, the establishment of a “tariff shield” to smooth the increases in the price of gas and electricity, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno The Mayor, was sent to open a new front in Brussels to “Based on the background the functioning of the single electricity market”, judged “aberrant”.
Monday, the Elysee teams thus required to introduce the economic, social and financial report, a regular budget document published by Bercy. This indicates that, despite the CVIV-19 crisis, purchasing power has progressed “twice as fast between 2017 and 2022 than in the previous two five-year-old”, ie 8% after taking into account Inflation, compared to 4% under François Hollande and 3.5% under Nicolas Sarkozy.
In particular, it stresses that the measures adopted since 2017 for households (decline in income tax, abolition of the housing tax, revaluation of the employment premium and various social benefits …), which total about 24 billion euros, “lead to a standard of standard of living ranging from about 2% for households located in most tenth levels of living, up to 4% for the most modest tenth households “.
Paradox
This analysis contrasts with those achieved before the crisis by independent bodies, such as the French Observatory of Economic Consumption (OFCE) and the Institute of Public Policy, that affluent households had benefited from tax and social measures. in place between 2017 and 2020. According to the Treasury calculations, a single paid at the SMIC earns 170 euros over month than at the beginning of the five-year, a caregiver 244 euros per month, while a person in situation Disability has seen its allowance increase by 13% … “The government seems to have considered tobacco and energy tax increases have changed a lot of behaviors, which reduces the negative effects on the first deciles”, Nuance Mathieu Plane , of OFCE.
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