Hold on to your wallet. After squandering everyone’s money on buying tests that do not detect the coronavirus and putting itself at the back of the queue of countries competing for international suppliers of health equipment, the party that supports the government proposes to create a new tax to finance the extra expenditure derived from the fight against this crisis.
On March 18, 2020, the President of the Government, in his speech to the Spanish Parliament, said the following:
“The fiscal debate is no longer going to be the same; the need to provide our public services with the necessary means to achieve excellence, after this pandemic, is such absolute evidence that I hope it is left out of the political debate.”
Notice to navigators. In the current situation, where political discourse is predetermined by the political marketing geniuses hired by political leaders, we must be very attentive to the way things are communicated and announced. As Robert Redford said in the movie. “Spy Game“: “When my coach told me that the important thing was the team’s interest, I knew he was going to leave me on the bench“.
Welcome to the kleptocracy. As always, the middle class is the loser.