by relying on all decision support softwareTake for example the rain nitrogen content9 billion about 35 billion Citigroup and non5Even a mundane plant pot can become a GMOIt would not set limits to Saddam HusseinThe unions are for the time being hostileJust as a one man cannot replace an orchestra3 billion has some similarities with EurotunnelThe acquisition of Tele2 France by SFR was confirmed yesterdayYou have closed your year end tax of AprilThe 2007 social security budget deficit of the general scheme reduced to EUR 8 billion. Should it not have been to go faster to balance
The Bill marks a very strong step in the reconciliation of accounts. Medicare deficit is four times less that what he would have been without the reform of the family branch is divided by two. As the insurance old age degradation is linked to the effect of the Granddad boom, the anticipated departures made possible by the law of 2003 and raise mechanism which encouraged enough to the extension of activity. But, if the deficit occurs earlier, it does not increase in the medium term financing needs. The effects of the pension reform are before us.
How will the social security fund debts knowing that transfers to the Cades are more possible
The need for funding will be provided by discovered authorization, with the prospect of a return to the balance of the disease branches and family by 2009. But it of course the question of funding. We spend a lot of efforts to control expenditure, to ensure that every euro spent is rightly. This essential control should be redeployment of certain revenues, because the aging of the population creates new needs. Social security cannot cope without new resources.
Where can they come Will it increase the CSG
Non. Should ensure that the needs are covered without increasing the rate of taxation. I am satisfied that in the future State should and will reduce its expenses, to transfer funds to social security. Look at the major posts in the public expenditure today. The interests of debt, first of all: we must reduce it to reduce the amounts spent. The means devoted to the defence then which, after a necessary remedial effort, should stabilize. Education expenses, which can be redeployed to high schools, universities, research. Finally, expenditure of unemployment benefits and those related to employment policies, which will decrease due to the decrease in the number of unemployed and demography. However, it will be imperative to cover the inevitable increase in social protection needs. In the next five years, the most dynamic revenue should be used to finance the most dynamic spending. I think VAT.
Are you willing to 'Social VAT', i.e. a replacement of the current contributions by a recovery of VAT
Our German neighbors will partly implement this substitution. The need to measure the economic impact, which could improve the competitiveness of German products to our detriment. But this model is not necessarily transposable: our VAT rate is already high and French growth is strongly drawn by consumption, which is not the case of the Germany. This is why I think more further committed effort reduction of expenditures of the State, and the re-allocation to the social part of the savings schemes. Financing, solidarity, a high level of social protection to which the French are very attached must be the subject of a true debate on the presidential campaign.
You call the State to rescue social security...
Non. In 2007, the French will have to find a true Covenant of social and public finance for the next five years. We must stop to raise public spending and social spending. It is written nowhere that the border be intangible. There has been massive loads over social security, in particular transfers between 1998 and 2002. Without this, the deficit of the general scheme was 6.5 billion 11.6 billion in 2005. The debt of the State priority must be to repay debts accumulated to social security.
