“French billionaires have earned 236 billion euros in 19 months, that is to say 12 billion per month”, notably underlined, during a meeting on Sunday, the candidate of La France insoumise for the presidential election.
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“I am told caricatural, yes, because the situation is caricatural”. Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced inequalities and “crisis profiteers”Sunday, February 13, in front of some 8,000 supporters in Montpellier (Hérault).
“They governed by goods, we are going to govern by needs”proclaimed the one who is for now at the head of a scattered left in the polls but several points away from voting intentions in the second round. “Them”Those are “the helper class” what, according to him, are “French capitalists”: “The state deficit is 140 billion euros. It is equal to the sums we have given to capital this year” via the research tax credit (CICE), the abolition of the ISF and other gestures towards companies, he said.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has described at length, often with irony and jubilation, what he calls the “crisis profiteers”the holders of great fortunes. “French billionaires have earned in 19 months 236 billion euros, that is to say 12 billion per month, 414 million per day, 17 million per hour, 287,000 euros per minute, 4,790 per second”. On the contrary, he gave the example of the salaries among the lowest: “home help/housekeeper, on average 680 euros per month, cleaner 766 euros per month, cashier 859 euros per month…”
He presented his solutions, in particular the creation of one million public jobs, 100% taxation of the part of an inheritance exceeding 12 million euros, a young student allowance of 1,065 euros or the investment of 200 billion euros in the “ecological bifurcation”.