The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has made a passionate defense of her fiscal policy, and by extension of her party, against that of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, and has accused the president of wanting to amass a "political piggy bank ” based on maintaining the current collection levels in order to be able to spend part of that collection on advertisements and measures that would be announced in the next electoral campaign.
"Collecting is not governing and Sánchez is amassing the largest political piggy bank in democracy and is saving it for the campaign," the Madrid president warned in a forum for the newspaper 'El Mundo'.
Ayuso believes that the policy of raising taxes on the rich carried out by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez as a result of the economic and price crisis that the war in Ukraine is causing is to the detriment of all citizens, who will be the ones who end up paying the electoral campaign of the next generals to the socialist president. "In fact, we are already paying for it" because "every announcement that the president makes between now and December 10, 2023 is sponsored by the suffocated, fed up and mistreated Spanish taxpayer, and by the following generations," he warned.
The regional president has warned that the revenue that the Government is collecting thanks to the rise in prices "will only go further", and while in the Government "they speak to increasingly poorer citizens, whom they treat like cattle" , "we have to pay for a strategy committee in Moncloa or a tyrannical, grotesque and useless ministry like that of Equality." For Ayuso, with the fiscal policy of the central Executive "we are paying the Government for its strategies to attack a part of Spaniards, so that the PSOE continues to lead the Government."
Ayuso has again accused the central Executive of acting against him, "against the opposition, the autonomous communities, the supposedly rich, the believers, history, the transition, and Madrid as the capital of all Spaniards", and of not understanding that "the more taxes are lowered, the more is collected".
Although the Madrid president has been in favor of collecting certain taxes, she has insisted that "when it is done in a confiscatory manner, everything dies." Thus, "when a businessman is not compensated to hire, or a self-employed person is not compensated to open, and a citizen is compensated more by the subsidy than the work, socialism ends everything". At this point, Ayuso has criticized the "ideological closure" of Sánchez and his team that leads him to turn a deaf ear to the claims of citizens who "beg him to lower taxes", and the claim to "impose a wealth tax on us" –the temporary tax on large fortunes announced by the Government- despite the fact that this tax “does not exist in any European country”.
For Ayuso, this new tax that the Sánchez Executive anticipates is "unfair and "attacks the right to property because it forces you to pay every year for something that was already taxed when it was purchased." In addition, it is an "uneconomical" tax because "it discourages and punishes whoever conserves its assets and frees the person who spends it from payment." The president has instructed the Government: "It is not that there are less rich, but that there are fewer and fewer poor, which is perhaps what the left manufactures."
Ayuso has highlighted the benefits of having withdrawn the wealth tax from the Community of Madrid, thanks to which "we have been respectful of assets that, if mistreated, will not hesitate to go to other countries, such as Portugal". And it is that the wealth tax "scares away foreign investment", he has defended, because the rest of the European countries have suppressed it. "How does the Government intend to combat fiscal dumping in a competitive and globalized world?", He has summoned.
According to the leader, "the left is lying when it says that by suppressing heritage, public services deteriorate" because "in Madrid we have been investing more and more in public services" and there have never been so many teachers, so many scholarships and so many health workers as in the year of more tax cuts, he has defended. According to Ayuso, the results are there: the community of Madrid has "eight of the best public hospitals in the world in 10 medical specialties and the lowest dropout rate in Spain." And furthermore, the region "is the one that contributes the most by far to the guarantee fund for public services."
In short, "we will continue to lower taxes whenever possible" and combating the "policy of fiscal boracity", in the words of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom Ayuso did not forget to mention.
In fact, Ayuso had no qualms about demanding Feijóo that when he "arrives at Moncloa" he not only focus on "management" but also make a "drastic reduction in public spending, taxes and make the market more flexible", correct laws "sectarian" and promote "Hispanidad". "That it eradicate all sectarian politics that only divides and puts the interests of the nation in the hands of minorities, much more than those who are professional haters of Spain. Without fear: there is no good liberal government without its consequent manifestation of the left at the door ", has assumed.
