Clergyman's

At the end of the current five-year presidential term and the “Trente-Six Dispendieuses” far-reaching public expenditure reforms will be required. These will be all the more painful as they are far too late.
- Éric Pichet

Thirty years of lax budget policy marked by soaring public spending in the 1980’s, the happy-go-lucky attitude of the 1990’s and finally, a policy of procrastination in the 2000’s characterised by the development of creative budgetary marketing strategies exclusively destined to delay the socially and politically painful moment of addressing the accounts.
- Éric Pichet

In developped countries, successive governments have always acted like firemen putting out fires instead of architects designing new buildings. The tax loopholes they have created are responses to emotions provoked by a given event, or an attempt to ease social tension caused by taxpayer exasperation . Any rational global management policy must satisfy two imperatives: simplicity; and stability.
- Éric Pichet