Sarkozy wants to pledge tax cuts by expenditure savings – Le Figaro

President of the Republicans comes back, in an interview published Thursday morning by Les Echos , on his economic proposals, which he wants to make the highlight of her performance in the show the words and deeds .

for Nicolas Sarkozy, lower tax burden is an essential condition for restarting French economy. He writes in his book La France for life , and on Thursday reiterated in an interview with Voices : “A tax cut program and social charges at least 25 billion euros will be voted on as early as summer 2017 “. Asked about the energy savings in return for this “against shock tax”, it suggests that a temporary increase in the deficit would be possible, as part of an “effort to reduce expenses of 100 billion euros over the entire five-year period. ” “It will also depend on the growth and status of accounts that we leave Francois Hollande, he said. This has never been done in France, is to simultaneously vote down the measures of compulsory levies, the savings measures of public spending and reforming the labor market. “According to him,” it is this simultaneity that counts, because it means that the tax cuts will be collateralized by future expenditure savings. ”

Meanwhile, Nicolas Sarkozy said he was “favorable” to “a privatization program and disposals of shareholdings held by the State in a number of companies, whose revenue will be allocated to reducing French public debt. ” “I’m not sure that the presence of the state at the current level in the capital of Air France, Renault, EDF or the Post is still justified, he slips. Changing the ownership percentages is necessary. “

Alain Juppé and François Fillon consider, them, we can not promise to cut taxes without reducing drastically the first expenses. “I am wary of political shocks: also take care impact of deficits and debt impact,” said the mayor of Bordeaux in the Le Figaro Magazine January 30, 2015. “What we closer is probably stronger than what separates us, “assures yet Nicolas Sarkozy, adding:” The opposite would be surprising because we have governed together. This does not prohibit the nuances. “

Among the nuances in question, the postponement of retirement. François Fillon intends bringing a “progressively to 65″ by 2022 if elected. “I have the experience of a successful reform of pensions, that is to say, which brings a lot of savings, quickly, without blocking France, the former president replied without naming it. It is the one of 2010. I take from this reform idea that what matters is not to show a very ambitious objective age, and lose the performance of the reform by multiplying concessions to acceptance and avoid stalling. As of summer 2017, there will be a retirement bill to push back the legal age to 63 by 2020 and 64 by 2025. “