A subject of public utility!The Parliament, representing the People, establishes the tax rules by seeking the best possible compromise: How to ensure a fair distribution? What expenses should it finance? For whose benefit? How to make taxes less harmful to the economy? Is the system transparent? Is it understandable by taxpayers?The great merit of Mr. Ytier's thesis is to have overcome the initial demonstration based on the observation that "financial and fiscal decentralization adds to the de facto inequalities of the territories a fiscal inequality". In doing so, he succeeds in inscribing a subject, initially very theoretical in a very current perspective and at the heart of the preoccupations of the assembly of territories, that of demys...