Just before the high-risk legislative elections for Macron, the French Left wants to spend more even though French public finances are exhausted. The "common program of the Left," Mélenchon-style, is astounding. The "new Popular Front wants to immediately dismantle Emmanuel Macron's reform, raising the retirement age to 64." But there is even more delusion; without setting a date, they reaffirm the goal of retirement at 60.

The unified Left, having shed all political shame, also proposes "a salary increase by raising the minimum wage to 1,600 euros net! And then, indexing salaries to inflation, and a 10% increase in the salary point" for civil servants....!! It's dizzying!! Who pays for it?

How will SMEs implement this increase overnight? What impact will it have on the entire company's salary scale? What impact on price increases? But that's not all! The Left, dominated by LFI and its political purges, wants to "Sovietize" the French economy by imposing a "price freeze on essential goods, such as food!" Sylvain BERSINGER, chief economist at Asterès, analyzed this economic madness in three points: "The price freeze risks causing shortages unless it is financed by the State, in which case it would be very expensive for public finances. The Macronist state has burned through the cash! The price freeze reduces incentives to increase production, thus failing to address the root causes of price increases. Wealthy households benefit more from price freezes than modest households, as they spend more than the latter. This complete program would cost around 250 to 300 billion euros! That's about the size of Portugal's GDP!

And then there are the Macronists who sing the song of purchasing power, like "we'll shave for free!" Attal promises to increase pensions by the amount of inflation; the Prime Minister wants to reduce electricity bills by 15%; Mutual insurance for "one euro per day." Exemptions from notary fees for first-time middle-class buyers; the amount of the so-called "Macron bonus," paid by companies to their employees, up to 10,000 euros instead of the current 6,000, "without charges or taxes." Who pays for it? How much will it cost? The State has no more money left!! "The real difference between us and the opposition is that our program is credible and funded," says the precarious tenant of Matignon! And the Renaissance President of the National Assembly, who claims on Europe1 that the majority she belongs to is "the one with budgetary seriousness!" Delirium? Panic? Denial? All at the same time!

Let's just recall, Madam Yaël Braun-Pivet, that France will have to present at least 25 billion euros in savings by 2025 if it wants to stay within the bounds of its Brussels budgetary commitments. This is your budget record!

Many French people have problems with purchasing power, that's obvious... But this electoral race is indecent on all sides. Stop taking the French for fools! And if, come the start of the school year, or in 2025, instead of all this, taxes were to rise again? What would be the reaction of the French?