What seemed like another victimizing outburst by the Ximo Puig government against Madrid, whom it intends to make pay for the deficient regional financing model that Zapatero and Artur Mas agreed upon at the time, takes a letter of nature when Minister Escrivá considers it “an idea that you have to keep exploring and it has a long way to go ».

We refer to the accusation of

tax

dumping

made in this newspaper by the Minister of Economy of the Valencian Generalitat, Vicent Soler, q

Who proposed a specific taxation on Madrid.

The argument to justify this interference by the Valencian Executive in Madrid's fiscal autonomy is as fallacious as it is recurrent: Madrid would not progress more than the rest and would be able to collect more with low taxes due to the success of a sustained liberal-inspired management model, but rather by the mere effect of the capital.

Effect that would justify a kind of

compensatory penalty

, under the absurd premise of the zero sum, which in reality would not serve to improve the balance sheets of others but at least it would mitigate for a time a certain identity resentment.

In reality, under presumed technical considerations there is hidden a poorly concealed ideological resentment that aligns all the partners of the central government against the community governed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso: the so-called Frankenstein majority made up of socialists, radical left populists and pro-independence supporters to which

Madrid phobia serves as an effective binder

.

It is no coincidence that Gabriel Rufián was the first to speak out against the alleged Madrid dumping, which is especially bloody coming from the spokesman of a party promoting a coup against the common solidarity among Spaniards from all territories.

As bloody it turns out that, following this interested debate,

neither the left nor nationalism allude to the case of Euskadi and Navarra

, privileged territories with the quota and the concert that do not contribute a single euro to the common fund of the Fundamental Public Services Guarantee Fund, to which Madrid contributes more than anyone else.

It seems that some are trying to prevent Madrid from being seen as a locomotive for growth and job creation, with the sole objective of discrediting the political ideology that makes it possible and that supposes a

clear alternative to sanchismo

.

If the example spread instead of sectarianism, autonomies such as Valencia or Catalonia - the one that burdens the most own taxes on the citizen - would imitate the Madrid model of fiscal moderation that encourages business development instead of attacking it.

This is what Andalusia has done and the results in just three years are in sight.

That is why it is especially sad to discover that Escrivá, who should have enough work with the design of a pension reform that is not the umpteenth patch to an unsustainable system, joins the victimist chorus against

the community that raises the most money for the State

without needing to squeeze its citizens.

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