According to wisdom or popular culture, the yellow ointment is that which is worth nothing and serves everything, a definition that fits perfectly with the intermittency with which the Government resorts to Europe when it wants to justify its actions or omissions. Thus, there are occasions in which he invokes the European precedent pretending to argue his decisions, while in others he decides what he pleases. completely ignoring existing solutions in Europe. But even more, it even happens that frequently the invocations to the European include authentic falsehoods. The most recent and most flagrant case is the projected modification of the Penal Code to reduce the penalties corresponding to the crime of sedition. There is no doubt that it is an imposition by the Esquerra Republicana that Pedro Sanchez has to comply obediently to continue resisting in Moncloa. However, its ministers are busy proclaiming that it is a measure to homogenize us with Europe despite the fact that, as has been published by various media outlets, in several European countries the crime of sedition is punishable by up to life imprisonment.
Another more distant case, but just as flagrant, was the VAT on masks. Faced with the social and political clamor for it to be lowered, our peculiar Minister of Finance affirmed over and over again that Europe was preventing us from doing so. As the lie has short legs, it soon became evident that the Montero lied finally being forced to downgrade. The same thing happened with VAT and electricity. Here too, the minister hid behind Europe so as not to lower taxation until her lie became clear and she had to give in to social pressure.
They have now been uncovered with the new Tax on Large Fortunes, a figure that will further distance the Spanish tax system from those existing in the rest of the countries of the European Union
Beyond our Government’s penchant for lying, these invocations of Europe as a reference contrast with the absolute impudence with which Pedro Sánchez and his ministers apply solutions for Spain that are radically different from those carried out by our European partners and advocated by the institutions of the European Union. Continuing in the field of taxation, there are several certainly significant examples in this regard.
It has been widely said and published that Spain is the only country in the European Union in which there is a wealth tax. Little has mattered to Pedro Sánchez and his Government our distance from Europe at this point, because not content with maintaining against all odds such a tax monstrosity of the past, they have now uncovered themselves with the new Tax on Large Fortunes, a figure that will be added to the previous one and will further distance the Spanish tax system from those existing in the rest of the countries of the European Union. Gentlemen of the Government: Is not the homogenization with Europe important in this matter?
Another fiscal occurrence of the Sanchista government is the new tax on the alleged extraordinary profits of the financial institutions. There is also nothing like it in the European Union. And even more, an important community institution such as the European Central Bank has severely questioned the establishment of said tax and, above all, its projected regulation, warning of its potential negative effects for the operation of the sector and especially for the granting/obtaining of credits. Faced with such criticism, Sánchez has dedicated himself to ironizing about the presence of a Spaniard in the ECB. Gentlemen of the Government: Nor does homogenization with Europe matter in this matter?
In recent days we have learned that the European Commission has had to force Spain to modify the VAT legislation to admit that Spanish businessmen can recover the amount of the tax that has been unpaid by their clients who are not businessmen, a circumstance admitted in the countries of the European Union and until now denied in Spain. Gentlemen of the Government: Was it not important to homogenize ourselves with Europe on this issue?
These examples are valid -there are many more- to show the impudence of the Sánchez government that sometimes takes refuge in Europe -here the yellow ointment is used for everything- to try to justify what it does, even lying about european realityand others do just the opposite of what exists in Europe -here the yellow ointment is useless to them-.
At this point it is feasible to ask ourselves about the cause of this scandalous modus operandi of our rulers. And for this reason, paraphrasing the president himself in one of his most cunning speeches, we can ask ourselves: are Sánchez and his people insolvent or do they have bad faith? In my opinion, both circumstances concur, since they ooze so much insolvency to rationally argue their decisions as unlimited is the bad faith they show when trying to deceive us.
