There is a continual spring PSOE defensive at the slightest critical voice from the left to the management central government, which is summarized in claiming that beyond the utopian world of ideas in which-presumably-living comfortably installed on the left pure, mud splashes on the stark reality of good intentions and imposes limits on how we would like things were. It is true that often there are things that we are given and conditioned to attempts to change bad, but it's become apparent that this argument as appellant is just giving his face, too, with reality itself. This is when politics becomes divorced from any theory, principle and long-term strategy, and ends adjusted to the situation and schizophrenia Indeed, in a poor caricature of the German notion of ' realpolitik' . And any alternative proposal is returned, with a quick reflection of a backhand and scrawny cry "it's very nice to theorize, but life is not so." However, the central government takes too much time sweating the shirt with such racket of this kind, mainly in the economic and more particularly in fiscal policy, as we have seen these last weeks of rumors, announcements, improvisations, denials and balloons probe-contradictory. One day, Pepe Blanco ' thinks aloud that perhaps it is time to start thinking that maybe it is almost time to put up the table the possibility of raising it at this point not a bad idea to propose ' a tax increase on wealthy and privileged. Quickly Blanco himself is quick to stress that it is "a personal opinion, and from there, everything has been lurching. Discuss
possible tax reforms in the current scenario of economic crisis requires us to look back a little and see how the central government has acted in recent years. Since the PSOE came to power in 2004, with unsubstantiated claims of "Lower taxes is left ', the maximum personal income tax has fallen from 45% to 43%, has eliminated the tax heritage, has established a single rate of 18% for capital income and has not touched the control of the company, despite the surreal situations that occur with so-called 'investment company with variable capital', which are taxed at 1% and present a loophole for large fortunes. I remember days back, incorporating views on how they are taking the latest developments, other voices in the blogosphere, as Paul Urbiola ( here , here and here ) , Sira , my Mr father or today, Don Ricardo .
This I do not know if it's left or right, it is clear that, regardless even of ideological values, the resulting fiscal model has left the public finances in a state of extreme weakness to address the economic crisis. Conclusion: not only that we have a tax system more regressive than the left by the PP, is that the government's record in this matter has been of profound irresponsibility and ineffectiveness.
A whimsical cuts hit without an overview, and deals indiscriminate returns and checks to consume in the wild market (rather than strengthening public services), we have what we have. You can follow grasping straws of 'realpolitik' with which it has become dangerously tax system (to the point of questioning, in fact, the effect of redistribution of wealth that gives the Constitution), to the dictates of the siren PP, or left to juggle and move from words to deeds. Sometimes I like to head Zapatero to know which way you think shooting. The problem is that everything seems to depend on a coin toss. Hopefully next fall the least bad.
0 comments:
Post a Comment