The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayusodelivered a strong speech rejecting a tax reform project by the Pedro Sánchez government and comparing its policies with those of the Peronist governments in Argentina.
“It will lead us to ruin. Not the government of the majority, not that of real people, the government that first creates poverty and then creates dependence on the state. It is fiscal populism. They take people’s money and then, as the Peronists do, they distribute it in payments, aid, subsidies“expressed one of the figures of the conservative Popular Party (PP).
The Spanish government unveiled a draft budget for 2023 on Tuesday that includes record social spending, financed in part by a wealth tax, and revised downward economic growth.
This spending and the anti-inflationary measures adopted by the Executive will be financed by the creation, announced two weeks ago, of a temporary and exceptional tax for the richest taxpayers.
The call“solidarity tax on large assets”which comes into effect in 2023 and 2024, will affect people with net worth over € 3 million and is expected to raise € 1.5 billion over two years.
During a debate in the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly held this Thursday, Díaz Ayuso remarked that “small Spanish companies can no longer bear it and cannot afford so many production costs”.
“The profit margin is shrinking. They are going to kill companies and jobs,” he warned.
“I deny that Spain’s economic engine is installed in that political and economic decay that is ruining so many countries around the world. People here want to be free, have their own plans and make their own decisions,” concluded Díaz Ayuso.
In front of an attentive audience and before receiving the applause, he concluded: “The question is whether it is not by chance that where the PSOE governs everything always gets worse. Fortunately, in Spain, no one believes in Pedro Sánchez’s government anymore.”
Subsequently, he again referred to Peronism in a tweet that he shared along with the video of his speech. “I refuse that Peronism ruins Spain’s economic engine”was the message that accompanied the publication.
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Source: Clarin
