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The executive stands firm on its refusal to increase taxes on the wealthiest and corporate superprofits, despite the poor state of public finances. Within the majority, voices are pleading to lift the presidential taboo.
“Dogma, nm: Opinion expressed as a certainty, an indisputable truth.” The definition of Petit Robert corresponds to this principle of macronie, repeated over and over for years, with Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance, as the first speaker. This dogma consists not only of not increasing taxes – this would be, according to him, a “dead end [car] we have the highest rate of compulsory deductions in the European Union [à 48 % du PIB en 2022, ndlr]», but also to continue to lower them. Whatever the circumstances.
The more public finances go off the rails, as is the case at the moment with a public deficit significantly higher in 2023 than anticipated by the government; the more wealth becomes concentrated, with 42 French billionaires who have become richer by a combined $230 billion over the last three years, according to calculations by the NGO Oxfam; the more large French companies break records for redistributing dividends to their shareholders; and less this “truth” stay “indisputable”. But the President of the Republic does not budge. In front of the v