The initial proposal, which targeted the self-employed in the lowest brackets of the income table in particular, has been lowered to 2.5%.
The obligatory question is what can lead a government to attack the already most punished economic sector in Spain with a new swordsuffocated as it is by the quarterly VAT and the self-employed quota, labor costs, dwindling billing and the scarcity of its social benefits.
The fixation of social democracy with the three and a half million self-employed, who build a good part of the productive fabric of our economy, is part of the more general impoverishment of the middle classes. In the governmental obstruction of the ordinary citizen who strives to make his way with his business between the collusion braided between the parasitic groups privileged by the State and the anabolic multinational corporations.
The pretext given by the Executive for the increase (equating the retirement of the self-employed to that of employees) reveals that the tax increases are directed by default to feeding the chimerical “piggy bank” of pensions that capture almost half of total public spending.
The maneuver offers a reliable sign of the economic racket on which the political model of the PSOE is based.: to sustain the clientelistic monopodium established between the State and the most populous cohort of the electorate (current and aspiring pensioners), it is necessary to immolate the insatiable Moloch of Social Security to the active middle classes as a sacrifice.
Such is the logic of operation of senile welfare states, which, imprisoned in the boomertrapcan only be maintained at the cost of multiplying public spending and debt. A geronto-populism under which the unproductive electoral majority (pensioners, civil servants and a large part of immigrants) it condemns the active minority to finance their subsidized status.
This regressive fiscal policy is explained because It is in the interest of the Government that citizens in a situation of dependence on the State multiply. As witnessed by the fact that the Minister of Social Security herself congratulated herself a few months ago on the dramatic figure of two million people who already receive the Minimum Living Income.
And that captive electoral reservoir It becomes wealthy at the expense of impoverishing the workers who pay for it, and chronicling the unproductivity of a Spanish economy increasingly addicted to subsidies.
The problem for this loyalty strategy is that more and more citizens are warning that The language of social rights is nothing more than a disguise for the confiscatory voracity of the State.
They perceive that the treasury’s record collection does not translate into an improvement in public services, but, on the contrary, everything is working worse and worse.
That they are beginning to question the meaning of revaluing the pensions automatically and constantly when salaries do not.
And faced with this breakdown of the social democratic consensus on taxation, the custodians of public orthodoxy react by reaffirming the redistributive catechism that the PSOE has burned into the common sense of the Spanish people.
That’s why, the left has now undertaken its own cultural battle in favor of “the public.”
The Government launches institutional campaigns selling the rubbish that “what you give comes back”, lest angry citizens forget that if they pay so much in taxes it is to have excellent roads in exchange.
The vertical unions, allied with the Government against the working class, declare themselves “radically opposed to lower taxes.”
And media socialism, through headlines such as The Country o La Sexta, deploys special coverage and debate programs to warn about the “anti-tax fury” that is dangerously spreading among young people.
It’s very simple: Virtually all of the spending increases in the last two decades have gone to social transfers and healthcare. Of these, 80% have gone to pensions.
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It is about perpetuating the sanctification of taxes and public spendingso that people blindly bless the increase in contributions by a State that in recent decades has been losing all sense of fiscal discipline.
The left has mainly contributed to this indulgence towards embezzlement with its discourse on the fetishism of taxation. That has turned what was an expression of natural common sense (a healthy suspicion towards the increase in public spending) into an ideological issue, according to which being critical of tax swelling is a right-wing thing.
The opposition, which has at times been cajoled by the “social” surname with which the Government rinses its caciquil system of purchasing willsmust be clearly distanced from socialist economic policy. And raise the flag of the struggle of the middle classes, who are the main victims of the current economic system, and the leading political actor today in the West.
The task ahead is to reformulate the inherited political cartography and show the non-fanatical that the Government’s “social” policy, far from putting the State at the service of economic development, uses it as a dispenser of a ruinous welfare system that penalizes the most disadvantaged.
A scheme according to which the well-being of the leisure classes is the responsibility of the workers of this third-world Spain with meager and stagnant salaries, and of the families gripped by the hydra of inflation and the skyrocketing cost of housing.
And all Spaniards should know, taking the Freudian expression of Oscar Puente, what The progressive government survives at the expense of the “fachapobres.”