Drowning the self-employed

The increase in contributions that the Spanish government intends to impose on the self-employed over the next three years will strangle many who barely manage to pay the current tax bracket each month, including all those who earn less than the minimum wage. Living in Catalonia (where it is always more expensive) has risen by 2.6% in the last year, and higher contributions without greater benefits send workers into the shadow economy. We could say similar things about the withholdings from wage earners' salaries.

That seemed to be what Feijóo was talking about yesterday in Congress, when he said things to Sánchez like "people feel like they don't work to live, but to support you" or "working shouldn't be used so the government can tax you, it should be able to serve to have a home, a life project, something to look forward to."

But Feijóo only brought up the subject to talk about corruption in the PSOE and the legal cases against the wife and brother of the Spanish president. When he said that "it's infuriating to see that merit is useless and that the honest are punished and the indecent are rewarded," it was impossible not to think of Mazón, who no longer knows what else to say against the unity of the Catalan language now that the first anniversary of the 229 deaths from the Dana is approaching, or Moreno Bonilla and the two thousand women affected by the warning "so as not to cause them anguish," or Ayuso when she says to the women of Madrid "go get an abortion somewhere else!" Three examples Living off a lack of merit and political indecency. The worker, controlled by the Treasury's supercomputer at the click of a button, knows that his fiscal effort, in relative terms, is very large, supporting freeloaders of all stripes.