“The real savings are elsewhere”: the necessary cuts to state operators must not eclipse the root causes of the deficit

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DECRYPTION - Organizations responsible for public service missions are involved in the budgetary effort. But their share in the public deficit is tiny compared to health and retirement spending.

According to certain political speeches, the entities in the public sphere qualified as “agencies and operators of the State”, and the numerous existing committees and consultative bodies would be a major cause of our public deficit. “There are today, for example, many Théodule agencies and committees which are devitalizing political power and which, in the process, are costing a fortune,” points out Marine Le Pen. A way of showing, for the candidate of the National Rally, who spoke on October 22 in front of entrepreneurs in Paris, that “the problem of pensions is insignificant compared to the amount of deficits and all the unnecessary expenditure”. However, the public deficit, of more than 150 billion euros, is precisely due, 44%, to social spending (pensions and health), or around 70 billion euros, according to the calculation for 2027 of the rapporteur (LR) of the finance committee of the National Assembly, Philippe Juvin, and his colleague...

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Machine-translated from French