The reasonable fiscal plan of the PP

Unfortunately, Sánchez is not likely to heed the tax reduction proposal designed by Feijóo.

This Government seems allergic to the mere idea of ​​alleviating the tax burden suffered by citizens, aggravated by inflation that, however, fattens State collection.

But the leader of the PP has already achieved something important:

, and not just any issue.

The devaluation of purchasing power and economic uncertainty in general with

constitute today the main concern of the Spaniards.

Feijóo's ability to place the tax discussion at the center of the national conversation is the

that the PP had been uncredited for too long.

It is a measured plan, which avoids incurring in demagogic promises incompatible with the financing of the welfare state.

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Feijóo recalled that the expected increase in collection for 2022 was 9,000 million, and only in the first two months of the year did revenue grow by 7,500.

Inflation preys on the weakest and for that there is the figure of the

, which in Spain has not been applied since 2008: it is about compensating the loss of purchasing power in personal income tax by returning to the taxpayer the percentage of the most taxed due to inflation.

The PP proposes that incomes below 40,000 euros per year benefit.

That is, help the most vulnerable citizens.

But Feijóo wants to act on other taxes as well.

He offers a reduction in taxation by transport, industry or livestock modules -among other sectors-, a cut in Corporation Tax and an immediate reduction in VAT on electricity.

It also provides direct aid of up to 300 euros for income less than 17,000 euros, which is the threshold from which it is mandatory to make the income statement.

that Feijóo promises to detail shortly.

Ministers of Finance and Economy, former Secretaries of State and regional councilors have participated in the preparation of this plan, which reinforces the solvency profile that made the PP the favorite option of Spaniards in times of crisis.

However, Feijóo would be wrong to entrust all his options to reach La Moncloa to the economic discourse.

Spaniards eager for change expect from the PP an offer of ambitious reforms and a defense of

.

The role of the great center-right party in Spanish public life cannot be defined by its opponents, nor reduced to the mere management of inherited disasters.

It is not possible to admit a single lesson in terms of alliances by the person who incorporated Podemos, Bildu and ERC into the leadership of the State, starting with their Budgets.

Since the economic front is the most urgent, the PP's opposition task must be manifested in all areas, from the fight against nationalism to the educational model, passing through a firm commitment to institutional regeneration.

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