It is a little-known but established and above all hypocritical parliamentary practice. artificially increasing the price of a pack of cigarettes in order to take measures to reduce public resources, such as reducing VAT or extending tax credits.
When the annual budget of the state is examined, the deputies and senators cannot do anything. Finally on paper. The Constitution (Article 40) effectively prohibits them from reducing revenues or increasing expenditures to avoid pushing the public accounts a little further into the red. Therefore, it is necessary to compensate, which is politically difficult. Only here, strategies to circumvent these serious budgetary rules have been operating for years. And the exercise, after all, is not so difficult….
Specifically, when they present their many changes aimed at reducing financial resources during the examination of the first part, the most political. – the allocated budget…
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Source: Le Figaro
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