"The French economy is slowly recovering," the Minister of Economy said on BFM-TV on Thursday, four days after the end of confinement to fight the coronavirus epidemic. "The restart is gradual ... I prefer a restart by stages than skipping the stages and risking the interruption", he added.
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In the same interview, the Minister of the Economy declared that the reinstatement of the wealth tax, abolished in 2018 by the government, would not be a "good choice" and that he considered that it would be effective in supporting the economy is "a pure lie, pure demagoguery".
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"It is very easy to restore the ISF. If I wanted to be popular, I would go to announce tomorrow (...) we will restore a 'tax on the rich' and France will be better. But it is not true, it's a pure lie, it's pure demagoguery: we did it for years, it didn't work, it didn't enrich France, it didn't improve prosperity ", a- he stressed.