The decision of the PP to support Carlos Mazón, despite his unsustainable defense, and place all the blame for the DANA tragedy on Moncloa and Minister Ribera has triggered a indecent political battle that is clouding and ignoring other fights in the parliamentary arena of enormous significance for situations like the one that Valencians experience today. I mean the tax reform what the Government intends.
A piece of information, which was offered yesterday on the cover 20 minutesshould remind us as a mere example: there are already 1,500 ERTEs caused by the catastrophe and that, as during the pandemic, will allow the workers of these companies to maintain their jobs and be paid each month until they can return to their activity. Everything, at the expense of the State.
The enormous amount of resources and public aid that have been put in place totals tens of billions. And they will fall short of the magnitude of the reconstruction needed. Nobody doubts that that’s what administrations are forbut few like to add that for that, too, there are the taxes that they collect.
The harsh discourse of ‘fiscal hell’ with which Genoa and all the regional governments chaired by the PP discredit the tax policy of the current coalition Government is not only not true, since the Spanish tax pressure continues significantly below the average of the EU, but encourages a dangerous citizen disaffection with the tax administration falsely identifying it with the greedy pockets of Pedro Sánchez and his ministers.
This Monday the Government has once again tried to move forward in the Congressional Finance Commission the maintenance of the extraordinary banking tax along with other new ones to tourist apartments and certain luxury goods although excluding energy. The ideological disparity of its parliamentary partners has prevented this and It will be necessary to see if in Thursday’s plenary session the socialists manage to square a sudoku of impossible votes…The PP, meanwhile, applauded with delight.
The tributes to the big Ibex or the Budgets for next year, with the millions more that the autonomies would have at their disposal if they could be approved, do not seem to enter into the equation that Feijóo manages against the Government, once he decided to take on Mazón to the back.
The accounts, however, always They are crucial and even more so in disasters like the one in Valencia. Rendering them, making them, making sure they fit and ensuring there is enough for everyone is the job of the political class. Collect them, as they do, from all citizens with their votes.
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