The PP will present an amendment to the entire budget of Castilla-La Mancha for 2025 because “they will bring more debt, more deficit, more taxes, less investment and the forgetting of major projects and commitments for our municipalities”, explained this Friday Santiago Serrano, deputy spokesperson for the PP in the regional courts, where the PSOE has an absolute majority.
The main opposition party believes that aid for the recent DANA disaster should be included, “as well as the immediate provision, as we have requested, of the Contingency Fund for this year.” “This also happens at a time when we continue to address the new regional financing model, to which no reference is made in the economic-financial report,” Serrano added.
“These are budgets that will represent more taxes for the inhabitants of Castile-La Mancha”, since the collection planned for 2025 increases compared to the previous year by almost 300 million, or 14.88% more. Concretely, specifies the PP, the collection of direct taxes increases by 13.53% and that of indirect taxes by 30%.
“On the other hand, there are 16 million less in tax benefits and we have the new star tax on the water fee with which Page demonstrates his desire to collect revenue” and with which, with the tax on the use of landfills, “the Community Council “It will make money at the expense of the Town Halls.” Concerning investments, “from 370 million in 2023, they increase to 301 in this budget”.
By area, the PP explains that the budget of the Health Service of Castile-La Mancha (Sescam) decreases by almost 70 million and “neither the possibility nor the financial provision to launch the professional career is included. “There is also no intention to modernize primary care or take action to reduce long waiting lists.”
Meanwhile, in the area of education, “we see once again how the government’s commitment to free early childhood education from zero to three years, announced with great fanfare by Page in July 2023, is conspicuous by its absence”.
Finally, there are “zero kilometers of highways and no investment in logistics”, as well as the absence of the increased rate for self-employed workers, more than 10 million promised by Page in July 2023 “who do not reappear anywhere”.
