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Making a budget is a war of trenches. That undertaken by the Government of François Fillon to stem the irresistible rise of the public expenditure, almost never ceased to increase since the V Republic, will be a historic breakthrough with the finance law for 2011. Limited it with vertiginous funding requirements of our Governments and our social protection, the stabilization in value the State spending enough so that it can put the words of austerity and rigour to the budget of the quinquennium of Nicolas Sarkozy. If it is not a simple announcement effect and a few metres are actually earned on the mount death man of fiscal laxity, will be talking about a small Verdun for our public finances.

Indeed, François Baroin, the Minister in charge of the purposes of the Home France months, had little choice. Between 2007 and the end of next year, the public debt will be dug close to EUR 500 billion, as if our economy was available in extra and credit equivalent to one year and a half of fiscal year. Brought to bear in 2011 a debt representing 86 of national wealth, the French State must restore emergency fiscal credibility if he wants, when take the Presidency of the G20, to continue to take its place on the international scene. As yet, we have seen during the crisis of the euro area, our different visions of the "large balances" makes not the Franco-German engine construction dialogue European: where we see a "German miracle", our neighbours diagnose rather French disease.

This time the determination of the patient to comply with the prescribed treatment is clearly asserted. The programming of the public finances until 2014, unveiled at the same time as the 2011 budget, provides back on this period the French deficit of almost 8 to 2 of GDP, with a first step to 6 next year. The very optimistic growth assumptions underlying this as virtuous as dramatic deceleration - unprecedented for half a century, stressed properly to Bercy - probably lend flank to multiple criticisms. This is despite the signs that the France finally committed in duration the essential effort to clean up its public accounts. This commitment projecting beyond 2012, presidential deadline overlooking already all the facts and actions of our Governments, it would take a much higher value if all of the political parties agreed to make their. Because you can diverge on the sharing of the sacrifices to consent, not on their need or importance.

Ungrateful, the battle for control of public expenditure less mobilizes headlines and less polarized debates as large tax switching. The "plane hit" on the "niches", that shy rest under martial statements of the Government, will sink more ink than the 32,000 new deletions of posts - with more than 150,000 in nine years the declining enrolment of public power. This extreme sensitivity to any challenge of the tax rules are easily explained in a country where samples absorb 10 more points of GDP than the average for the G7. It is also a warning to all those who think able to restore a sustainable balance of our public finances by the use of the tax. In the industrialized world, there is little now saving more redistributrice than the France. Even the "Nordic model" is reducing dependence famous redistribution. The share of their income that Swedes derive from social or State transfers is now below that of the French, 33, another of our records.

How surprising that a nation whose citizens need a third of their standard of living with vested rights is difficult to reform. System being more sustainable financially, the large budget site of the next five years will be the social policies largely free of any challenge by the Finance Act, with the notable exception of the pension reform. The length of the processions which proclaim their opposition to this last gives a measure of the difficulty.