Somehow, they believe if they get an extra
From Reuters:
The package will recoup 30 billion euros ($39 billion) for the public purse with a goal of narrowing the deficit to 3.0 percent of national output next year from 4.5 percent this year - France's toughest single belt-tightening in 30 years.
But with record unemployment and a barrage of data pointing to economic stagnation, there are fears the deficit target will slip as France falls short of the modest 0.8 percent economic growth rate on which it is banking for next year. The budget disappointed pro-reform lobbyists by merely freezing France's high public spending rather than daring to attack ministerial budgets asSpain
"This is a fighting budget to get the country back on the rails," Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said, adding that the 0.8 percent growth target was "realistic and ambitious".
"It is a budget which aims to bring back confidence and to break this spiral of debt that gets bigger and bigger."
France's benchmark 3.0 percent 10-year bond was steady, yielding 2.18 percent after the announcement. The government said the budget was the first in a series of steps to bring its deficit down to 0.3 percent of GDP by 2017 - slightly missing an earlier target of a zero deficit by then.
"The ambitions that were flagged are very audacious," said Philippe Waechter at Natixis Asset Management. "I struggle to see how we'll find the growth needed in 2013 and afterwards."
Of the total 30 billion euros of savings, around 20 billion will come from tax increases on households and companies, with tax rises already approved this year to contribute some 4 billion euros to revenues in 2013. The freeze on spending will contribute around 10 billion euros.
"SICK" MODEL?
To the dismay of business leaders who fear an exodus of top talent, the government confirmed a temporary 75 percent super-tax rate for earnings over one million euros and a new 45 percent band for revenues over 150,000 euros.
Together, those two measures are predicted to bring in around half a billion euros. Higher tax rates on dividends and other investments, plus cuts to existing tax breaks are seen bringing in several billion more.
Business will be hit with measures including a cut in the amount of loan interest which is tax-deductible and the cutting of an existing tax break on capital gains from certain share sales - moves worth around four billion and two billion euros each.
"The government is impeding investment and so will block innovation," Entrepreneurs Club head Guillaume Cairou said of the preference for raising taxes rather than cutting spending.
"France is sick because of the model it has ... but is choosing to preserve it."
READ THIS QUOTE FROM SOWELL THE OTHER DAY:
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS GREED TO WANT TO KEEP WHAT YOU EARN, BUT NOT GREED TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO EARN."
FOR LEFTISTS, THERE IS PLEASURE IN THE TAKING.
AND PLEASURE IN PICKING WHO SHALL GET A SLIVER AS DOLE - IN REWARDING PEOPLE THEY LIKE.
THEY DON'T CARE THAT IT RETARDS PROSPERITY AND IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.
THEY DON'T CARE THAT IT RETARDS PROSPERITY AND IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.
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