Since the first steps of the pension reform, the deputies of the majority scour the television sets to defend the decisions of the government.

According to them, shifting the retirement age to 64 would be fairer for the population as a whole.

Conversely, lowering the retirement age to 60, as part of Nupes wishes, would create many inequalities.

At the microphone of BFMTV, the deputy Renaissance Mathieu Lefèvre mentioned the alternatives to this reform.

“When I hear that I am being offered retirement at 60, it costs 90 billion euros per year and that means that we will double the income tax of the people who pay it”.

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90 billion euros, here is a nice sum whose source necessarily questions.

According to deputy Mathieu Lefèvre, the calculation comes from the figures produced by the Institut Montaigne during the previous presidential election.

Regarding the program of the rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Montaigne Institute had explained that restoring retirement to 60 years after 40 years of contribution generated an expenditure of 85.8 billion euros.

However, during its calculations, the Institut Montaigne puts forward several scenarios.

A median scenario with “a return to all age measurements since 1993” and “rules for calculating the pension paid over the 10 best years”.

It is this scenario which is valued at 85.8 billion euros.

The high scenario with the revaluation of all pensions is estimated at 112.8 billion against 36 billion for the low scenario.

A figure also put forward by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt on the set of Cnews, on January 23.

"When I see placards springing up, initiated in particular by rebellious France, and more broadly by part of the left, calling for retirement at 60, French women and men must be reminded that retiring at 60 today, it's 85 billion euros per year, it's just not possible”.

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For the economist Michaël Zemmour, the figures are not good at Renaissance.

According to the COR simulator [which is currently under maintenance], lowering the retirement age would actually cost 1.7 points of France's GDP.

A figure that would be closer to 45 billion euros.

But the comparison becomes a bit more far-fetched when the hon. member mentions income tax.

According to Michaël Zemmour, “income tax is not the most natural tax for financing pensions”.

Indeed, pensions are based more on social security contributions.

“A priori, there is no link between income tax and pensions, which means that the quotation is doubly offset, both in terms of the amount and the method of financing”, continues the economist.

55 billion according to the Insoumis

On Monday, the deputies of rebellious France presented their counter-reform of pensions at a press conference.

They pleaded once again for a minimum pension of 1,600 euros net for full careers and a minimum old-age pension of 1,128 euros.

According to insubordinate France, their reform would be largely fundable and would constitute an alternative to the government's proposal.

According to them, the cost linked to a legal age reduced to 60 years and to the revaluation of pensions and the minimum old age would be 55 billion euros, including 27 billion which would be used to finance the reduction.

Half would be effectively financed by the increase in contributions.

To save money, the rebellious party provides for the reduction of certain "social niches", and in particular "the reduction of contributions on salaries above 2.5 Smic".

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