Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister, announced this Wednesday that “regardless of what some people think, Spain will be a better country if it has more electric carsmoreover manufactured in Spain, more public buses and, consequently, more public transport and less Lamborghinis.
Likewise, the head of the Executive also announced that he would increase taxes “for those who already have in the bank enough money to live 100 lives“.
The reference to the vehicle, moreover, also attempts to be an attack on the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
“New actions to limit privileges”
Sánchez, who inaugurated the new political course at an event at the Cervantes Institute, said the government would launch “new actions aimed at limiting the disproportionate privileges that they have and that Some elites take advantage of it» of the country.
“We are going to tax those who already have enough money in the bank to live a hundred lives. We will do it, I insist, not to harm millionaires but to protect the middle and working classes from a system that continues to be extraordinarily unfair,” Sánchez reiterated, in the presence of almost his entire cabinet and the union leaders of CCOO and UGT, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, respectively.
Sánchez also indicated that this new measure does not aim to “harm millionairesbut to protect the middle and working classes from a system that continues to be extraordinarily unjust.
Sanchez’s new taxes
The Director General concluded by assuring that more progressive taxation This will be one of the three main axes that the Government will develop in economic matters in this new political direction, with taxes “that will increase the most for those who have the most”. The only one of these taxes that only affects the highest classes would be that of large fortunes, unless we seek to increase the number of tax rates.
Interterritorial compensation fund
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, also announced on Wednesday that he would promote the creation of an autonomous financing system. “fairer” and it is proposed to double the resources of “the main solidarity tool included in the Spanish Constitution”, which is the Interterritorial Compensation Fund.
“We will promote the creation of a fairer regional financing system, which reduces territorial differenceswhich takes into account the unique character of each of the territories and which guarantees the sufficiency of public spending,” announced the president during his opening speech of the political course.
This new system will require, as Sánchez has argued, the co-responsibility of regional governments. “We believe that decentralization, which is part of the Federal DNA and the autonomy of our composite State, is perfectly compatible with the guarantee of solidarity and equity between the territories,” he stressed.
This system will also be compatible with the warranty of the sufficiency of resources “provided that regional governments assume greater fiscal co-responsibility,” the president explained.
In fact, the head of the Executive has committed that, with the reform of the autonomous financing system that he is going to propose, “each of the autonomous communities of the country will receive more resources than they received while the Popular Party governed.”
This will be achieved thanks to Sánchez’s intention to double the resources of “the main solidarity tool included in the Spanish Constitution, which is the Interterritorial Compensation Fund.”
