The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the Congress of Deputies
13/02/2025
2 min

I am stunned by this debate between the PSOE, which raised the minimum interprofessional wage by 61%, and its partners at Sumar, who are against this increase having the retention of personal income tax. ApparentlyThe brilliant Ot Serra and Andrea Zamorano explained it to us at the ARA–, it seems that every year, when the minimum wage is proposed, there is a "political agreement" so that it does not reach the new threshold and does not pay taxes, but this time "the Treasury has opted for the right". The leader of the PP has said: "Keeping half of the increase in the SMI is neither progressive nor social justice".

I don't know, I swear, if it is or is not "progressive", or what exactly "progressive" means, but it certainly seems to me to be "social justice". If it turns out that the threshold from which taxes should be paid is not fair, because it is low, let's talk, but then, let's talk about all the other cases. It does not refer to the case of the king emerit, who has the holy bar of not returning to the kingship without paying taxes, nor to the millionaires who pay taxes in some island with the name of a reptile, but rather to the asphyxiats workers, hotel staff, journalists, radio operators, kitchen staff, delivery people, who all have to pay the 300 self-employed euros to have the right to invoice an amount equal to or lower than this one that diem. For me, the key to the PP president's words is the verb he uses: "Keep" the personal income tax money, not "collect." You can see the duster. I sometimes, when I travel (outside Catalonia, of course) and see those beautiful motorways and roads, those new trains and those flower-filled roundabouts, think: "Look, we, the self-employed, have paid for a piece of this." Who does the leader of the PP think is "keeping" the taxes? The verb makes me think of the saying: "The thief thinks that everyone is like him", which translated by hand and without ChatGPT, would be: "The little thief thinks that everyone has a hand in the pot."

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