Fifteen members of the group Ecology Democracy Solidarity, whose co-president Matthieu Orphelin – ex-La République en Marche (LRM) -, ask, in a column published in Sunday Newspaper August 30, that the recovery plan, which will be unveiled Thursday by the government, is “Sustainable and united”.
While the government has already sketched the broad outlines of its future 100 billion euro stimulus plan, the “Nevertheless still appears too impregnated with a conservative liberalism satisfied with finding the public money which arises opportunely to save the economy, but without suffering any social, fiscal or ecological conditionality”, deplore these deputies, all former “walkers”, including Emilie Cariou, Aurélien Taché and Cédric Villani.
“If the health crisis affects all of our regions, it is in working-class neighborhoods that its effects are most disastrous. However, the recovery plan does not provide for anything to fight against discrimination and territorial inequalities ”, they deplore, while “Massive investments in social housing, access to employment and education in priority neighborhoods are necessary”.
“Give a political trajectory to this public money”
They ask that the aid paid to companies be “Accompanied by precise recruitment objectives in these neighborhoods, where weakened self-employed workers must be supported”.
“We cannot suppress “production taxes” without touching the tax optimization mechanisms which atomize the taxation of profits ”, continue these parliamentarians.
And “We cannot allocate investment aid which will be immediately diverted to feed the financialized payment of dividends to shareholders. We cannot leave the finance and insurance sectors, spared by the crisis, aside from the national effort ”, they complete.
According to these deputies who want to “Independent”, “There is an urgent need to revive the economy, but also to give a political trajectory to this public money”.
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