Pere Aragonès was one of the protagonists of the plenary session held this Thursday at the Madrid Assembly. Following a question from Vox about the loss of purchasing power of Madrid residents, especially acute when it comes to “home purchases”, the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, mentioned the president of the Generalitat after his recent visit to the capital to present the new fiscal model proposed by ERC for Catalonia. She and she have done it to demand that he “insult less” and, in return, “lower taxes” on the Catalans because she, she assures, “can’t take it anymore.”
After listening to Aragonès demand a financing model far from that of Ayuso, which she pointed out is based on tax dumping, the Madrid president has boasted of her management for having deflated personal income tax twice, for having carried out 21 tax reductions, having thereby led to the savings of 24,000 million euros for the people of Madrid.
But in contrast, he has said he is “supporting” a national government that with a series of laws and attitudes “is sinking investment in Spain. (…) and seeks confrontation between regions. Of course, buying fraudulently elections in Catalonia for three years when they closed us here illegally. And meanwhile the Catalan partners laugh in the faces of all the people of Madrid, insulting Madrid by calling it a megalopolis, that if there is fiscal dumping, or saying that it has a model that enhances extractive caste, that is, the effort of all Madrid residents,” he said.
The Madrid leader, besieged by the opposition for the crimes of tax fraud admitted by her partner, has described Sánchez’s Catalan partners as “pretending independence at the expense of the money of all citizens, especially the Catalans. They take away our autonomy to Madrid, but then they prevent us from choosing how to work with our fiscal autonomy.
“A lot of TV and an embassy, ??but then there is no water in the taps,” he reproached Aragonès, accusing him of being the first of the “extractive class” for “expelling companies” from Catalonia and creating “a citizen control machine that is suffocating taxes and bureaucracy.
Ayuso has assured that Madrid is the one that finances a large part of it, serving as a “welcome home for all those who lose that prosperity (…) It is the people of Madrid who pay for these essential public services to other communities. What the Lord has to do Aragonès is to insult the people of Madrid less and lower taxes on the Catalans… to finally leave them in peace, who can’t stand this corruption any longer with which they pay for Mr. Sánchez’s maintenance in his chair. They are all the same,” Ayuso said. introducing the president of the Generalitat into the Madrid political debate.
