At a lively pace and in an educational approach, mixing analyses, expert testimonies and graphics, the documentary 3 billion: the secrets of a bankrupt State aims to explain to the French the debt cycle and how we have come to this. But also to push political leaders to act, as the situation is so serious.

CONTENTS

00: 00 Introduction
11:28 Chapter 1: Tax, elected officials, public service
24:47 Local authorities
37:35 Chapter 2: Expense control
53:46 State management
1:08:33 Chapter 3: The public expenditure matrix
1:18:46 The French health system
1:27:48 Chapter 4: Debt
1:36:58 The consequences of non-payment of debt

SPEAKERS

Jean-Marc Daniel - Economist and essayist - Professor at ESCP
Christian Saint-Etienne - Economist and essayist - Professor at CNAM
Marc Touati - Economist and essayist - ACEDFI Director
François Ecalle - Former general rapporteur of the Court of Auditors - President of FIPECO
Édouard Balladur – Former Prime Minister (1993-1995)
Benoît Perrin – Director of Taxpayers Associés
Virginie Pradel - Tax lawyer - President of the Vauban Institute
Olivier Babeau - Economist and essayist - President of the Sapiens Institute
Jean-Michel Fourgous - Mayor of Élancourt, former deputy
François Facchini – Professor of economics at Paris-Sorbonne University
François Lainée – Consultant, Data Expert
Jean-Baptiste Leon – Publications Director of Contribuables Associés
Benoîte Taffin - Former mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris
Paul-Antoine Martin – Engineer and essayist
Hervé Novelli - Former minister, deputy and mayor
Charles Prats - Former magistrate of the National Delegation for the fight against Fraud (DNLF)
Pr. Michaël Peyromaure - Head of the Urology department at Cochin hospital and essayist
Lisa Kamen-Hirsig – Teacher and essayist

Author-Director: Charles Thimon - Producer: Charles Guillemin