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litlewombat t1_je4fmd8 wrote

I'm for the reform, France's social security budget is starched to its Breaking point.

But France is a democracy, and if the people don't want this reform than is shouldn't be past.

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Hamlenain t1_je4hdfw wrote

Funding for the reform requires the same amount of money that a tax on the rich removed by the current gouvernment previously generated.

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litlewombat t1_je4u2au wrote

I agree that those tax cuts were unessasary. But those tax cuts were temporary for 2021-2023.

Moving forward France needs a way to make sure that senior's get enough money from their pension to live a good life.

And with the amount of seniors increaseing every year and the amount of working people decreasing, there needs to be measures to make sure their is enough money in the founds.

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Hamlenain t1_je4wkgr wrote

There are 40 to 120 billion euros to be found in tax evasion in incomes superior to 28k euros per annum per head. The funding for recuperation of that fraud is inferior to that invested in health insurance fraud, which represents only a 200 million euro possible recuperation.

Even a 1% success rate would on former would represent twice as much gouvernment income as a 100% success rate on the later, which is receiving more funding. A 10% success rate would solve the problem for half the anticipated deficit...

This seems like a very obviously sound financial investment, which has been proposed as an alternative by every major french labour union, yet disregarded completely as no discussion or negociation has been allowed by the, arguably bad faith, use of political tools currently available to the gouvernment.

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