Madrid's president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, at a press conference against the new Catalan financing
15/07/2025
2 min

The ineffable Isabel Díaz Ayuso has uttered a series of extraordinary phrases,Regarding the "unique financing" (the hottest thing is in the sink) agreed between Esquerra and the PSOE. Anyway, the kingdom's newspapers today were on fire. They talked about Sánchez's "concession" to ERC, which "breaks equality in Spain," or about the "surrender" of fiscal independence "at the expense of solidarity among Spaniards." Anyway, when I go to the supermarket and they ask me to round up for solidarity purposes, I can say yes or I can say no. I mean, regardless of the nobility of the cause, solidarity is chosen, or it isn't solidarity. Solidarity means that the third community to contribute isn't one of the last to receive. That absurdity wouldn't be understandable in any other context. For example, if a mill where you brought certain sacks of wheat to be ground gave you less flour than the others, who brought less. Someone will tell me that what would be fair is that regardless of the wheat contributed by each person, everyone would receive the same amount of flour. Yes, listen. What cannot happen is that someone contributes in a capitalist way and receives in a communist way, and someone contributes in a communist way and receives in a capitalist way.

Mrs. Díaz Ayuso, then, has said this if the threat is carried out: "How do I pay for schools? How do I pay for healthcare?" Anyway, we'll leave aside that first-person tense. "I pay." Which means she pays for it. Let's also allow that we Catalans, precisely, have already asked ourselves this question. "How do we pay for schools? How do we pay for schools?" Let's get to the fundamental issue. If Isabel Díaz Ayuso is asking how she will pay for teachers and doctors if the one-off funding for Catalonia comes into effect, it's clear that she knows that until this happens, we will pay for the teachers and doctors.

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