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Montero reproaches the PP for lowering taxes on the rich to “cut the welfare state for workers”

The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has reproached the PP for lowering taxes on the richest while “cutting the welfare state of workers”, in response to the accusation of the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, that “no one has ever raised taxes so much and so many times” as the current socialist government. Furthermore, Gamarra has hinted once again that Montero’s chief of staff is involved in the Koldo casechallenging her to put her hand in the fire for him, which the minister has done, again, emphatically.

Gamarra has accused Montero of “taxing the Spaniards”, with 81 increases – Montero has mocked, saying that the number of increases increases every week –, of “suffocating the middle class” until “having a child” or buying a house is impossible, or renting is an anguish.” “They want the cake to grow.” [de la recaudación fiscal] to eat it bite by bite,” Gamarra snapped.
Montero has defended that Spain is four points below the European average in tax collection in relation to GDP and that the Commission asks the Government for a tax reform after receiving 140,000 million euros of European funds. “You, in the communities that you govern, do nothing more than lower taxes on the rich and then ask the State to pay for public services,” said Montero.