To say "tax" is an abuse of language, VAT is a tax and not a tax.
They considered the VAT unfair by taking the example of the bread that everyone (rich or poor) eats more or less in the same quantity.
On the example of bread (and food in general) VAT effectively represents a% more important for the poor than the rich ... BUT what they forgot to say is that we do not consume that bread and the rich, over a year, will have paid (contributed?) much more VAT on their various consumption than the poor.
Whoever does not buy, who does not consume, does not pay VAT.
However, food has long since become a minority share in household spending (even if it has been increasing for a few years), the majority of VAT is paid on things other than food: fuel and fuel, electricity, hifi, telephone subscription (which all the poor have ...) ... etc etc ...
In this sense, TVA is, in my opinion, a fairly fair tax. We could even consider it as an eco tax ... in a way.
The show may be available in Stream ... I'll get it.
Related topics:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/pour-ou-co ... 10130.html
https://www.econologie.com/forums/tva-sur-l- ... 10127.html
https://www.econologie.com/forums/l-inflatio ... t9980.html
ps: in the same broadcast we heard (to be checked) that the personal income tax (income tax) represented, in Belgium MORE THAN VAT (in France VAT is far above tax on income) ... and that there was unofficially 33% of the active population compensated by the unemployment organization ...
For 2010 in France according to wiki (in millions of euros):
Income tax 48
Value added tax 126 504
reps: I don't like to talk too much with the terms "rich" or "poor" (we are all rich in absolute terms) but for the demonstration it was easier.