Agnès Verdier-Moliné’s rant

Director of the iFrap Foundation, Agnes Verdier-Moliny, published “ Where does our money go? ? » (The Observatory, 2023).

The French sold their cars because they were told it was not clean to own a car; They no longer need to take a plane to go on vacation because they are told it pollutes the planet. So they booked a train ticket to go on vacation and… the train got cancelled. Welcome to France! SNCF tells us that choosing a train means acting for the planet. The French are happy, they have paid their ticket, in a broad sense the state still paid more than 20 billion in subsidies last year, but they will not leave. Thirteen French academies are affected, in the middle of the school holidays.

They are told in the media that they will receive text messages or emails, but they receive nothing. They find out about the cancellation on the app. At 3635, it is difficult to reach an advisor before waiting twenty minutes. They have been told that they will be…