Two months after having been frozen by Emmanuel Macron in response to the crisis of the “yellow vests”, the increase of the carbon tax resurfaced. In a column published in Le Figaro , 86 deputies led by ex-LREM Matthew Orphan’s call to resume the upward component of the carbon tax on fuel.
“For us, the taxation of carbon is not a dogma, not more than a political marker”
“For us, the taxation of carbon is not a dogma, not more than a political marker, think. It is, among others, an effective tool” that he should not give up. Among the signatories are mostly members LREM, including the vice-presidents of the Assembly Hugues renson explained and Sylvain Waserman, the rapporteur of the budget Joël Giraud, the head of the majority group to the finance committee Bénédicte Peyrol, or the mathematician Cédric Villani. They were joined by elected officials and MoDem IDU – whose president Jean-Christophe Lagarde – and four New left (ex-PS).
The publication of this column occurs while the statements in favour of a new …
