Pedro Sánchez criticizes the fiscal irresponsibility of the PP and defends his plan as a guarantor of the welfare state

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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, took advantage this Saturday of his closing speech at the IV La Toja Forum -by videoconference, due to the fact that he remains isolated in Moncloa due to Covid- to criticize the PP's fiscal model for being irresponsible and defend his own, as guarantor of the welfare state.

And he has done it with numerous statistics, data and examples on the expenses of public services, particularly health, which maintain the welfare state.

Sánchez has replied to the criticism that former President Mariano Rajoy and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had directed at him on the same stage, with special emphasis on the tax for the rich and the fiscal plan that the Government will approve, designed horse's claw as a response to the abolition of the Wealth Tax of the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno.

Sánchez has criticized the fiscal irresponsibility of the PP, and has cited the

as a bad example , where the collapse of the pound caused by the Conservative government's tax cuts has forced public intervention to save the markets.

The Chief Executive has dedicated most of his speech to defending his fiscal model as the only way to maintain and pay for the welfare state.

"Social justice requires tax justice," he has assured.

Sánchez has rejected that Spain has "a problem" with public spending, as the opposition denounces, and has reiterated that the levels of income and public spending have been five points below the EU average in recent years.

"Do we want to be Europeans with a European welfare state? If we answer in the affirmative, we must be consistent and provide income to that welfare state," he said.

"Every man for himself"

The president's speech has cited numerous specific cases about what helps to pay taxes, with the aim of demonstrating that the PP's tax cut is an attack on public services.

A "every man for himself".

"To appreciate what one has, there is nothing like knowing what it costs," he said.

And she has listed examples such as heart transplants, which cost 90,400 euros;

the average cost of hospitalization, which amounts to more than 5,000 euros;

or that of surgical procedures, which is more than 7,500 euros, as well as the cost of an ICU bed for Covid, which exceeded 19,000 euros.

"Are we willing to tolerate a woman having to mortgage her home to pay her cancer treatment bill?"

For Sánchez, highly criticized by the PP for raising taxes on the rich, it is obvious that "those who have more should contribute more to the common fund."

And so the

, the

and the

.

More data.

"Only with the rise in personal income tax for the rich we cover the

extraordinary reinforcement for primary care. Where is the money better, in a few pockets or in primary care that saves lives?

The President of the Government has done the same with specific cases on the savings of Spaniards affected by the Executive's tax reform, comparing them with the savings of the Feijóo model.

According to the data that he has exhibited, with the PP's personal income tax deflation proposal, the savings of a worker without descendants who earns 18,000 euros is 23 euros, while with the Government's reform the savings would be

Sánchez has praised the taxpayers who, from "a comfortable position", normally assume that they must show solidarity with their less favored compatriots.

For them, the trade-off of paying more taxes is "moral" and "patriotic."

According to the accounts of the President of the Government, only the temporary rise in

covers the budget for scholarships and grants for the current school year.

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