US Edition'On the Zucman Tax, France Is Mired in a Hysterical Debate'
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Because of the fact that it is time to impose the most wealthy, especially with the Zucman tax, other ideas invite in the debate and not just to the left... like the return of the ISF.
The Zucman tax, the most successful expression of the preference for the tax, will not solve the 168 billion deficit of the state. But it will carry the blow thanks to an exsangue economy.
'On the Zucman tax, France is mired in a hysterical debate'
COLUMN. The right pretends not to see that the ultra-rich are not paying their fair share. The left, meanwhile, is blindly accepting an idea that is solely academic in nature, writes Le Monde columnist Stéphane Lauer.
Zucman or not Zucman, the political debate focuses on this binary alternative, as we like them in France and which would be to be for or against the rich. We must be glad that an economic debate is entering the political sphere and we asked Alain Trannoy, economist at Aix-Marseille School [...]
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