This week we learned from the press, between coffee and toast, that "the Government will propose to harmonize the taxes assigned to the Autonomous Communities ." However, behind this decision there is no overcoming vocation to unite the Spaniards or to reform a clearly inefficient fiscal system , which would be desirable, but a fervent desire to derail all the Autonomous Communities that, like Madrid, bet on low taxes as a formula to attract investment and generate employment .

But why have they decided to attack our fiscal autonomy? We are the fastest growing region, our unemployment rate is four points below the national average and one in four companies created is in the Community of Madrid. In addition, we comply with the rest of Spaniards by contributing more than 70% of the total contributed by all regions to the Solidarity Fund . The data shows that things work in Madrid. Therefore, it is at least curious that the President of the Government of Spain is not happy that we do well, but rather the opposite. He seems obsessed with the good progress of Madrid and decidedly busy trying to change the trend.

If things work, why do you insist on trying to spoil them? Sanchez may have to pay debts to his investing partners or he simply does not like the rest of Spaniards to see that liberal governments work better than interventionist governments .

We would like to explain our policies in person, to receive us in La Moncloa as the protocol, common sense and logical respect between institutions. However, today it has not yet been possible. He has preferred to meet before with a criminal disguised as president as Torra than with the president of the Community of Madrid, the region with the highest GDP in all of Spain .

Flaco favor is doing this Government to the whole country rewarding those who fail to comply and punishing those we meet.

If you had received us, we could have explained that moderate and intelligent taxation is paying off in Madrid and we believe that the rest of the regions would also work if they applied it. It's about copying and pasting (which Sánchez knows a lot about this), about imitating instead of attacking.

In fact, if you want to harmonize taxes throughout Spain, let's do it. But let's do it to Madrid . Let's lower those of the rest of the Communities to match them with those in Madrid. Nothing prevents doing it, except the closure of those who put their ideology before the evidence of the data.

From the government of the Community of Madrid we have no intention of confronting the Government of Spain . Quite the opposite. I think it is our duty and it is part of our institutional responsibility to try to reach agreements. However, we do have an excellent opportunity to confront their model and ours; and it is exactly what we are going to do. Maybe that's precisely what Sanchez is afraid of. That the Spaniards can verify the consequences of applying both models. In any case, we will continue working to be the Government of the good news , even if it means aggravating the insomnia of our President.

Ignacio Aguado is vice president of the Community of Madrid.

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