The announcement of a 2.6 million budget adjustment for public services sounds like an insufficient patch in the face of decades of systematic cuts. The real hypocrisy lies in boasting about not raising taxes while healthcare waiting lists grow longer and classrooms become overcrowded. The real solution requires a progressive tax reform that taxes the wealthy, not small adjustments that only gloss over the underlying problem.
Technology as a mirror of fiscal inequality 💻
While budgets for education and healthcare are being cut, the algorithms of big tech companies optimize tax evasion. The lack of effective digital taxation allows giants like Google or Amazon to pay ridiculously low effective tax rates in Spain. Implementing a tax on financial transactions and on relocated corporate profits is not utopia, it is basic fiscal engineering. Without that revenue, any adjustment is just a digital placebo.
The miracle of 2.6 million: bread today, hunger for 2030 📉
The move is as predictable as an episode of a mediocre series: they announce a 2.6 million patch and act all smug, as if curing a hemorrhage with a Hello Kitty band-aid. Meanwhile, waiting lists grow faster than a plumber's bill on a Saturday. The magic recipe is not to touch the rich and hope people believe that public healthcare works with the same logic as a free app: free until you get a critical error.