Pécresse disputes the inflation allowance, an “unfair” measure, according to her

Valérie Pécresse finds “unfair” the government’s choice to compensate for the rise in energy and fuel prices with “inflation compensation”, explained the candidate for the nomination of the Republicans for the presidential election on Sunday.

“On gasoline, we can see that the check that was written is a check that is unfair, because if you are a single woman, as we say in a single-parent family, with children, and you earn 2,100 euros, you are not rich, and on the other hand a certain number of students who will touch it do not have a car ”, she pleaded during the Radio J.

“I would have also put the package on the health personnel”

Instead, defended the president of the Ile-de-France region, “I would have put the package on people who work and I would have allowed companies to be able to tax tax exemption for people who work. and I would also have put the package on the health personnel, the nurses, the doctors who come home to also give them help because they come for us ”.

An “inflation allowance” of 100 euros to cope with the rise in energy and fuel prices will be paid automatically to each French person who earns less than 2,000 euros net per month from December. It will be paid automatically to 38 million people in total. President Emmanuel Macron defended this measure on Friday as “fairer and better targeted” than a reduction in taxes.

The need to review the VAT on gasoline …

“The price of gasoline and the price of electricity are taxes, and VAT on taxes is tax squared. It must be questioned, it must be removed, ”continued Valérie Pécresse.

And “to lower this VAT on gasoline, it is necessary to make savings in the public sphere, on public expenditure. (…) There is no reduction in taxes without reduction in spending, ”insisted the former Budget Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.