In rhetoric, it is often said that what comes before the “but” in a sentence has little weight. And, at a time when the public accounts lights are turning bright red, the formula that precedes the
“but”
in the mouth of the executive is
“there will be no tax increase”
.
"We have always said that we would not increase taxes"
, insisted for example Gabriel Attal on TF1's "20 Heures", Wednesday evening, swearing that he was keen not to tax more
"the middle classes"
- who do not are not all taxpayers - nor
"businesses"
.
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But… the Prime Minister also indicated that he had
“no dogma”
on the idea of a tax on the richest, as recently proposed by the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. It must be said that even within his government, the idea of a debate on the issue is far from being rejected outright.
“At some point, we will have to get through it,”
confides a ministerial source.
We can't keep dissecting the spending for every little million on one side and looking...
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