I am looking for a janitor in Madrid

I am doing the income statement for my mother and I see that she already receives more in pension than her grandchildren and almost that some of her children earn. And I contrast it with that of my uncle José María de Madrid – already retired, he loves these things – to prove that, in comparison, he pays less than my mother and that you do live in Catalonia. By the way, I would like to point out four things:

1) Every year our fiscal framework discourages work more and encourages people in their sixties and fifties to retire early to replace dwindling salaries with a growing pension.

This year, on average, employees have lost more than 5% of their purchasing power compared to 2021 if we consider inflation and the average increases per agreement of 3%. And that’s the lucky ones who got them.

2) Perhaps this will be the means of putting an end to the housing problem, because in this way all our children and grandchildren will end up living with our mothers, who have seen their pensions increase as much as inflation.

3) In Madrid, my uncle, with a lucky gross annual pension of 28,000 euros, pays 1,000 less in income than my mother with the same gross pension in Tarragona. So it is necessary to ask for some kind of charge, even if it is for a janitor, in the capital, where the salary of civil servants will be increased by 8% until 2024. There, in addition, the Ayuso does deflate the regional section; not like here, where we are supremacists, my uncle doesn’t care, even to pay taxes.

4) The right-wing frame of mind for winning elections is “less taxes for the working middle class”; and the one on the left, “more subsidies and pensions for the lowest incomes”. They are two opposing narratives and one question: Who will be more at the polls: the taxpayers with high salaries, who feel pagan because they cannot go and pay less in Holland, or the passive classes grateful for such generosity?

And the old anxious question of those who want to continue working: Will we one day see in pensions the return of all that we have worked so hard to contribute?