David Saforcada
Economy, budget and taxes
30 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 30
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Reshore strategic sectors and support participation linking capital, labour and the state.
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Assess every economic policy against ownership, financing, technological control, production location and endurance during supply disruption.
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Create a mainly operational National Economic Sovereignty Council under the prime minister; publish a map of vital capabilities, stocks, owners, suppliers and rebuilding times within six months and update it annually, with a protected annex where necessary.
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Target at least 15% manufacturing value added within ten years, trade balance excluding energy and over 3% of GDP in R&D; publish a dashboard of production, patents, purchases, dependencies, stocks and skilled jobs.
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Assign every strategic programme an owner, multi-year budget, duration, milestones and review; allow failed programmes to stop, successful ones to expand and the state to become the first customer for useful innovations.
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Coordinate Bpifrance, Caisse des dépôts, state holdings and sector funds through shared doctrine and an investment committee; use equity, guarantees and long loans for first factories, SME growth and strategic-business protection.
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Offer diversified French productive-investment products through life insurance, retirement savings and long-term funds with risk and duration disclosures; allow the Citizen Investment Account to contribute under its own rules, with guarantees and limits still to be detailed.
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Prioritise removing or reforming taxes on industrial assets before profits, for strategic sectors and new investment; require contractual commitments and proportional repayment after relocation, closure or sale breaching commitments.
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Retain effective research tax credits and aid, exclude artificial arrangements and aid without French assets; maintain a unified register of amounts, commitments and results, simple processes for small firms and additionality proof for large groups.
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Restore national currency, credit, exchange-rate policy and Banque de France powers; propose a common accounting and settlement currency among adjustable national currencies as part of EU refoundation submitted to a referendum.
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Within twelve months and before the referendum publish a currency plan covering payments, deposits, French-law contracts, Banque de France powers, initial parity and temporary controls on speculative flows; prepare every institutional scenario.
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Pass a ten-year economic programme with five-year stages and multi-year funding cancellable only by a reasoned decision; publish an annual parliamentary report with independently verified data.
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Favour long-term holdings and genuine French investment, strengthen support for capital increases and succession; give employees a voice on headquarters, assets and control without automatic veto, with graduated clawbacks on speculative resale except protected withdrawals.
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Never require personal savings in one’s employer; offer a low-cost diversified option, distinguish awarded shares from personal contributions, simplify PEE/PER plans and allow Citizen Account contributions under its rules without replacing pay-as-you-go pensions.
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Grade tax/social relief, guarantees and state-shareholder treatment by results-equity-decisions and French economic roots; use procurement criteria only where lawful and give no benefit for a one-off bonus without a lasting agreement.
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Cap and time-limit incentives, verify no wage substitution, coverage, equity, votes and investment; fraud or sham arrangements trigger repayment, surcharges and temporary exclusion.
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Remove CSG on wages up to €2,500 gross monthly, halve it between €2,500 and €4,000 and apply ordinary rules above; annual calculation and smoothing must prevent threshold crossings reducing net pay; social-insurance compensation remains to be specified.
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Act firmly against organised benefit and tax fraud, distinguish honest errors, lawfully share data and publish actual recoveries, without counting unrecovered debts as savings.
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Earmark a levy on foreign-made products for wage CSG reductions, outside general state revenue; its legal form remains contingent: VAT surcharge, import contribution, negotiated duty or border adjustment.
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Keep ordinary rates for French-made goods; add 2–6 percentage points to eligible foreign goods sold in France, illustrating total levies of 22%, 24% or 26% for goods normally taxed at 20%.
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Vary the levy by product, foreign value added, equivalent French supply, social/health/environmental production conditions and reciprocity; calculate it on only the foreign share of mixed products where possible.
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Allow exemption or reduced rates for essentials, necessary materials, critical components and goods without French production where a surcharge supports no domestic supply; revise the list as production returns.
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Monitor prices and margins, refund and sanction improper levies on French products; disclose ordinary rate, contribution and manufacturing country separately.
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Under the September feasibility scenario, reduce CSG by 50% on wages up to €2,500 gross monthly and by 25% on the €2,500–4,000 portion, with annual smoothing; this halves the initial August relief.
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Create a separate social-compensation account and fully compensate each CSG tranche when introduced; cover shortfalls through enacted permanent resources or phasing, never deficits/debt, without double counting or diversion.
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Resource customs, tax and social bodies to verify origin, imported value, payment and earmarking; prevent repackaging/transit artificially changing origin, with simpler procedures for good-faith small businesses.
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Publish annual gross/net revenue, prices, purchasing power, compensation, actual CSG relief, imports, jobs/reshoring and fraud; revise rates/exemptions where shortages or disproportionate social effects occur without production benefits.
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Record one consolidated CSG-earmarked line without artificially reducing economic-programme needs; the campaign provisionally estimates reduced-scenario cost at €76.5–88bn over five years, central €82.5bn, versus €165bn initially, subject to impact assessment.
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Commission a pre-legislation customs-tax-Insee-Treasury-social-body study of the actual foreign tax base, +2/+4/+6-point distribution, mixed products, net yield and price/trade effects; implement no permanent CSG tranche before funding certification, without anticipating growth or unobserved revenue.
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Trace costs, savings and redeployment in overall financing, count no savings before identification, scheduling and audit, without arbitrary job targets or hypothetical gains.
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