"Cui bono", Public Transfers in France

Social Groups Reliance on Direct and Indirect Public Transfers (France)

Source of base image I added red iso-benefit lines to make apples-to-apples comparisons easier

France
Recent data from Insee suggest that the heavy reliance on direct transfers by certain social groups, particularly pensioners, combined with their growing electoral heft, may be a key constraint

This chart is unique to France and cannot be directly applied to any other country.

What is notable

Contrary to what the Communists claim, Business Owners, Self-Employed and Managers have the very lowest level of public transfers.

The loonie-Left screams at the top of their lungs about businesses benefiting from public roads and the internet, but those roads also benefit the employees who work in those factories and the customers who order from on-line businesses.

Green dots are family structure. The red lines are on 10% increments

Couples with one-or-two children are the least subsidized. Families that are single-parent, single-adult or couples without children receive about 25% more transfers than couples with one-or-two children.

The "Couple without children" transfers are puzzling until you consider than many of those couples are pensioners and might more accurately be described as "Couples whose children moved out".

The families with three or more children are more likely to be migrant-families who qualify for transfers not related to the number of children they have at home. 

"Single adult, no children" households are also likely to have an over-representation of migrant, working-age men.

The outliers in the other direct have a lot of overlap or "confounding"

Nearly every pensioner is over-65. Also, nearly all younger people have the equivalent of an UPPER secondary diploma. Ergo, most people with Lower-secondary (9th grade) diploma or lower are also over-65.