Public debt: Dominique Seux takes us for fools

Dominique Seux, deputy editor-in-chief of Les Échos, Bernard Arnault's newspaper, who gives us his economics lesson every morning on France Inter (public radio), had it all figured out in his Monday editorial. How did we get to this point?

Let's get back to the essentials, he writes, "the government will fall because demagogues are telling stories to the French: it would be enough to take money from immigrants (for the RN) or from the rich (on the left), for everything to be better." And yet, "we think we're dreaming," he writes, and "this political nonsense has an economic cost."

In other words, cynically exploiting immigration for political ends and considering taxing at 2% the fortunes of 1,800 taxpayers with assets of more than 100 million euros , including the 500 richest people in France with a combined total of 1,128 billion, is just the same. Dominique Seux really takes us, and his readers, for fools, which is not very smart. Or he really thinks what he writes and then, what can we say?