I am doing my mother's income statement and I see that she already earns more in pension than her grandchildren and almost some of her children – alas – in salary. And I compare it with that of my uncle José María from Madrid –already retired he loves these things– to attest that, in comparison, he pays less than my mother and that you do live in Catalonia. By the way, I'll point out four things:
1) In each financial year, our fiscal framework discourages more work and encourages more sixty- and fifty-year-olds to retire early to replace their dwindling salaries with a rampant pension.
This year, on average, employees have lost more than 5% of purchasing power compared to 2021 if we consider inflation and the average increases by agreement of 3%. And that only the lucky ones who have achieved them.
2) Perhaps this is the way to put an end to the housing problem, because in this way all of our children and grandchildren will be able to end up living with our mothers, who have seen their pensions increase as much as inflation.
3) In Madrid, my uncle, with a lucky gross annual pension of 28,000 euros, pays 1,000 less in rent than my mother with the same gross pension in Tarragona. So you have to ask for some little job, even if it's a janitor, in the capital, where the salaries of civil servants are raised by 8% until 2024. There, in addition, Ayuso does deflate the regional section; Not like here, that we are supremacists, my uncle is joking, even to pay taxes.
4) The mental framework of the right to win elections is "less taxes for the working middle class"; and the one on the left, "more subsidies and pensions for the lowest incomes." There are two narratives and one question: who will be more at the polls: the high-salary taxpayers, who feel pagans, because they cannot go to pay less in the Netherlands, or the passive classes grateful for so much generosity?
And the old anguished question of those of us who want to continue working: Will we ever see in pensions the return of everything that has been hard-earned?
