The draft General State Budgets for 2021 faces full debate in the Senate, the last process before its final approval and its entry into force as of January 1.

The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has taken advantage of her intervention in the Upper House in defense of public accounts to attack the Community of Madrid and its tax credits and has anticipated a plan to homogenize upward territorial taxation.

"We need a serious debate on taxation. We cannot consent to a fical race to the bottom. The Constitution establishes that everyone must contribute to the maintenance of public services and do so through a progressive and fair tax system. Territories do not contribute, citizens do. The fical autonomy of the Autonomous Communities cannot be unlimited and cannot result in unfair competition between territories. It is not possible to promote homogeneous taxation in Europe and defend the opposite in the national territory. "

With these words, Montero has opened the door to a reform of the tax system that will not only in principle force communities such as Madrid to raise certain taxes, but will also have three fundamental objectives: "Recover progressivity, reduce the gap with Europe and modernize the model".

The head of the Treasury has accused the political forces that have not given their approval in Congress to the public accounts -PP, Citizens and Vox mainly- of "irresponsibility" for not supporting a "Country Budget" and doing it with the only objective of "not recognizing the legitimacy of the Government" and its allies, a bloc that, in his opinion, represents the "plurality of Spain" and serves to provide "stability" to the nation.

Montero has also assured that the economic effects of the second wave of the pandemic are "much smaller" than those of the first and although he has affirmed that 2021 will continue to be a difficult year, next year we will see "intense" growth in the form of "asymmetric vee".

The Popular Party, one of the five that has presented a veto to the accounts in the Senate, has leased Pedro Sánchez and his accounts, the result, Senator Javier Maroto has said, of his "egotism."

"Sánchez only cares about his own image and his own person and the mattress on which he sleeps."

For the popular, these accounts are the "principle of austerity" because they are making the same mistakes that Zapatero did ten years ago.

"His first recipe is always more debt and each Spaniard owes more than 7,000 euros that Sánchez is president," said Maroto for whom, in addition, the income is "falsified."

"Their approach is so angelic that they ask us for an act of faith but there are only reasons not to believe in them."

According to Maroto, the Budgets contribute to the destruction of employment and has predicted that more than a million self-employed are at risk of losing their jobs and more than 10% of companies at serious risk of disappearance.

She has also pointed out that since Sánchez occupies Moncloa, unemployment among women has increased by more than 300,000.

The PP has accused the coalition government of "not knowing how to boost growth" and "continuing to spend as usual, with an open bar and a whim."

They have also attacked the "tax hatchet of 9,000 million euros" that not only affects the rich "because there are not so many rich in Spain even if they look for them under the stones."

Maroto has assured that by dint of "harmonizing" the Government "is overstepping."

According to the popular "harmonization" it is nothing more than a euphemism that hides the "tax increase".

The PP has recalled that in the rest of European countries the opposite recipe is being activated, that is, the reduction of taxes.

How could it be otherwise, the worst of these Accounts is the "immense political price that is paid for them": the Celaá law, the equality laws that are not shared by the PSOE feminists, control the price of rents, prohibit evictions and also endorse the occupations, or agree with Bildu relying on Otegi, a character who "does not want to be in the direction of the state but in the direction against the state."

These accounts are "a kick against socialism" has insisted the PP spokesman, who then insisted on the need to set up an independent expert commission to manage the funds to come from Europe;

create a special hiring modality for those affected by the Covid and the zero quota for freelancers who have zero income.

Maroto, finally, has reminded Montero that the partners with whom he has agreed on the Budgets "do not give a damn about Spain."

Citizens, for their part, regretted the partners that the Government has chosen to carry out the Budgets.

Some Accounts that, according to its spokesperson, Ruth Goñi, "protect the particular interests of the formations that do not believe in Spain and not the interest of the Spanish."

Ciudadanos, unlike what it did in Congress, has presented a veto to the public accounts in the Senate, after understanding that the PSOE-United Podemos coalition government has rejected its outstretched hand and has preferred that of ERC and Bildu.

The orange formation has asked that European funds come accompanied by a calendar and a reform program and that it be consulted within the framework of the Cortes.

"The Government has chosen the wrong path and not only because of its travel partners", has settled Goñi, for whom in these Budgets "independence and populists win and the Spaniards lose."

"Their budgets are ideological, nationalistic and exclusive and the partners they have chosen are a moral shame."

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