Fighting against the material poverty of so many people is a moral imperative of human solidarity. Even, for the sad argument of selfishness, we will reach the conclusion that it is much better for everyone to live in a cohesive society than in one divided between a few rich people and a lot of poor people.
Taxes are the great equalizer, but as the world goes, the goal of equal opportunities is moving away from us like the horizon line. A certain postal code or family origin is almost a condemnation that today's children will receive as inheritance the poverty of their parents.
The poverty level in Catalonia is higher than in Europe and is becoming chronic, as confirmed by the self-sacrificing entities of the Catalan third sector, who are exhausted because they cannot help everyone who asks. And it is clear that with the taxes paid by families with one or two salaries and a roof over their heads, we will not solve it. Moreover, among these families, too many, once the rent or mortgage is paid, are candidates to be included in the risk of social exclusion list.
Under these conditions, the moral imperative of the entire Catalan political class is that our country can dispose of its enormous fiscal effort. We cannot squeeze people any harder without taking into account all that we pay and does not return and that the administration must be much more efficient. But above all, we cannot believe that the redistributive theory of taxes will hold up for many more years with this concentration of wealth in a few hands that know and can evade taxes. But this would already require a global rethinking of what we call the principle of reality, not to say savage capitalism.
