A small hole in the budget of a State agency? Let’s invent a new tax! Last week, Emmanuel Macron, has decided to create a new levy on airline tickets to finance the Agency funding of transport infrastructures of France (AFITF), which finances the development and maintenance of transport networks. His ministers, most environmentalists don’t want to do, the president has forced the hand. The eco-tax on the notes has two benefits: it will pay 182 million euros and allows you to fill in part the application of the “yellow vests” to more taxing aircraft.
This anecdote tax is telling. Failing to free up resources by making savings in addition, the executive succumbs to the ease it creates a tax. More generally, to see to the implementation of the majority, reduce the standard of living of the State or its scope seems to have become impossible. What we know of the draft budget for 2020 does not fight against this …
