2023-09-06 19:50:00
This Wednesday, September 6, Julien Bal received various guests around the set of the show “We must speak” of LN24. Among them the lawyer Dany Spreutels, the community leader and founder of “GIRLEEK” Julie Foulon, the economist at the Joseph Jacquemotte Foundation Xavier Dupret and the “conso” journalist at the Last hour / Les Sports Vincent Schmidt.
The subject of prices in supermarkets in Belgium triggered a heated exchange between Vincent Schmidt and Xavier Dupret. “We do not see in Belgium what we see today in France and which is reported by bosses, a collapse in food consumption. We do not see this in Belgium. The wage indexation mechanism is an excellent purchasing power protection mechanism,” says economist Xavier Dupret. “There are still people who have to deprive themselves of products, that’s a reality”, answers the consumer journalist of the DH / Les Sports Vincent Schmidt. The two speakers continued to exchange their views on this question of prices in mass distribution.
“money machine”
A little later in the program, Julien Bal broaches the subject of the vehicle registration tax. Vincent Schmidt did not fail to give his opinion by explaining his personal situation: “I will cite a very personal example, that of my wife. To live 15km from a hospital where she works, there is no public transport to go to work at 6.30 a.m. neither on Saturday nor on Sunday and there is no public transport to return in the evening. What does she do? She must take from her salary to pay for this tax to go home for being worked. Otherwise what does she do?” To which Xavier Dupret responds very calmly: “I’ll help you. In fact, she doesn’t need a Tesla to go 15km”. This sentence revived a lively exchange between the two men before Vincent Schmidt launched: “It’s a money machine once more, I’m sorry”.
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Still on this circulation tax, the lawyer Dany Spreutels denounces a society in which deprivations of liberty are increasing: “What strikes me a little is that we live more and more, and that’s a constant, in a deprivation of freedom. You work a lot, you want to give yourself something that your courage at work allows you to give yourself and you’re told ‘oh no, it’s out of the question that you buy a car of this type’. In reality you have to understand that there are more and more important interests at stake’ and we are moving more and more towards a reduction in freedoms. Now we are saying to you ‘oh no , no question of buying this vehicle, it is too heavy, buy a small car.
The show is to be rediscovered in full in the pinned video of the article.
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