
The Executive has released heavy artillery in an attempt to close the debate. "I have not been elected to increase taxes", said yesterday Nicolas Sarkozy before the employees of Alstom, between in-person barred to the figures of the majority, such as Pierre Méhaignerie and Gérard Larcher, who wanted a development of the tax shield or an outstanding contribution of the richest in this period of crisis. "Me, I was elected to reconcile the France with the company and the plant", replied the head of State, obviously eager to put an end to discordant expressions giving grain milling unions on the eve of a new day of social mobilization. There were emergency. Even the very liberal Hervé Novelli, Secretary of State for trade and for SMEs, stated yesterday morning, on Radio Classique, "step of the opposite of an outstanding contribution" highest revenue, while refusing to interfere with the "golden rule" of the tax shield.
In addition to compliance with its commitments to campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy has put forward "" global competition and the risk of capital flight: "I don't want to enrich Monaco, me.". I do not want to add the Switzerland, I do not want to add the Austria. I want that people come to spend their money on France and invest in France. "The same arguments have been pounded yesterday by the Minister of Budget Eric Woerth, leader of Deputies UMP Jean-François Copé, General Secretary of the party Xavier Bertrand or even the President of the Assembly, Bernard Accoyer. In the camera of the meeting of the Group UMP, François Fillon added another, politically very heavy for the Executive: do not offer a symbolic victory to the left. "Our opponents want to use the crisis to make us back," said the Prime Minister. In fact, the Socialists Martine Aubry and Jean-Marc Ayrault, who launched a petition and have tabled a legislative proposal for the repeal of the "fiscal package" 2007, themselves are not deprived of mock on "the bad conscience of a number of members" UMP.

Neither Pierre Méhaignerie (which must today defend the establishment of an outstanding contribution on earnings at 300,000 euros per year) or René Couanau (seeking outright suspension of the tax shield) have received support yesterday in group meeting. And yet, they are not the only, in the majority, wish "more social justice". It is the case, including, in the districts particularly affected by the crisis. "I cannot cross people on the sidewalk without that asked me that there is more solidarity," says Michel rationale (Haute-Saône).
Faced with a dilemma
"To ease tensions and show that we are not ideologically blocked, it would be good to moderate or to suspend temporarily the tax shield", argues Pierre Cardo, MP for the Yvelines. "The effort of solidarity is not only advisable." "It is the duty," said Michel Piron (Maine-et-Loire), well, who would put revenues contribution from 150,000 euros.
Shared, the elected representatives of the majority are faced with a dilemma: what is the most devastating symbol Remain closed at the request of the French solidarity or back on the tax shield The issue divides even the small current villepiniste. While Hervé Mariton (Drôme) judge that "the fiscal stability is an element of trust", François Goulard (Morbihan) argues, him, to "send a signal", "it is a matter of principle, he said. "And the principles, it counts in politics".