The Businessmen's Circle maintains that "taxes can be lowered" and comply with the welfare state without the need to increase the tax burden on companies, which only represent "6% of the entire pie", while rejecting the rise frontally of taxes that Pedro Sánchez plans. " We are on the side of more money in the pocket of citizens, " said the president of the institution, John de Zulueta.

"We think you can spend less and spend better," De Zulueta continued during the presentation of the recommendations of the Circle for the new legislature, which did not want to leave the occasion to remember that the State spends "14,000 million in subsidies that nobody is studying if it is generating positive impact "or" 6,500 million in training that nobody is valuing. " " There is a little ignorance about the money that is being spent, " he said.

Entrepreneurs have also influenced the slowdown in both Spain and the world economy as a whole, a situation that draws a context in which, in his opinion, they become more necessary if economic reforms are possible. And among them, the "establish a unique and reduced rate " that moves "around 20%" in the corporate tax, that is, once again just the opposite of what the PSOE intends.

It also proposes to modify the pension system, so that employers pay a lower proportion of contributions "and, in parallel, move towards a more balanced distribution system." In this reform, the Circle is committed to "transforming the current distribution system into a mixed one based on three supports: distribution, mandatory capitalization and voluntary capitalization." He also believes that it is necessary to "promote the voluntary extension of working life above 67 years " and "increase the number of contribution years that are taken into account in the calculation of the regulatory basis of the retirement pension."

Government before Christmas

From Zulueta to noted that, for the first time, the Circle publishes its recommendations for the Legislature in the same year. This situation responds to the inability of the political parties to form a government, something that considers it necessary to occur as soon as possible. In fact, he has been sure that there will be an Executive before Christmas since the parties "can not afford another failure." "Politicians have to do something to remove the thorn of what happened in the last elections," he said.

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