Lucie Castets
It’s disastrous, quite simply — and it’s linked to one of the cultural battles that we need to win. That the government is proposing such drastic budget cuts is directly linked to the mistakes made by the president over the last seven years. We must stop thinking that the difficulties we find ourselves in come out of nowhere. They’re the result of political choices that weren’t the right ones, namely the enormous hole in revenues created by years of tax cuts.
The second point is that we’re in a situation where we’re going to intervene against what even standard economic theory would recommend. We’re hovering on the brink of a recession, and we’re going to continue to cut spending, which will further compress economic activity. Above all, this budget will further cut back public services, which are already in a deplorable state. We should be investing massively in public services. There are also many economic inefficiencies. For example, reducing reimbursements for medical services and checkups will further push people to pay for private plans. But we know that in the very long term, this will cost a lot more.
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Auteur: Lucie Castets
