The Spanish right is so stunned that despite having been betrayed by the Popular Party, and examples of this betrayal include the non-repeal (having an absolute majority) of the Historical Memory Law, or the non-repeal of the abortion law of deadlines, or the contempt for the victims of terrorism, or the acquiescence to the European immigration policy and the consequent Muslim invasion, or the dontancredismo in the management of 9-N, of 1-O and in the application of the ridiculous 155, it still clings to the idea of continuing to vote for that Party with the excuse that it has done well economically. The objective of this article is to demonstrate that this excuse is quite foolish.
Let it be clear that my analysis is directed at what the PP has done and what it should have done since 2012 and not to compare the popular economic management with the previous socialist management, in which case it would be like comparing fast food with involuntary fasting. Because it is as true that Spain was on the verge of default at the end of 2011 and that in mid-2018 it was the eurozone economy that grew the most as that the PSOE left 4.5 million unemployed and that the PP handed Spain over to Pedro Sánchez with 3.3 million. Although it is no less true that Spaniards deserved to overcome the socialist fast with something more than cheap and indigestible fast food.
The Rajoy Government and the PP changed the recession for growth, the destruction of employment for affiliation to Social Security, the risk premium shot up for the confidence of the international financial markets, but how did they do it? Starting from the basis that they could not do worse than their socialist predecessors, or that anything they did would be better, they applied a social-democratic interventionist scheme, that is, they increased the tax pressure, evidencing with said scheme the first of the great betrayals to their political ideology and their electoral promises. At the same time that they savagely raised taxes, they theoretically tried to contain spending with the famous cuts. I say theoretically because they absolutely did not achieve the objective, with which the cuts served for the left to rejoice in how pernicious they were while the main indicator of their effectiveness skyrocketed and demonstrated their total ineffectiveness: the public debt.
In short, a Party that claimed to be liberal in economic terms what it did was raise taxes and shoot up the public debt by 400 billion ?, finishing off its scandalous uselessness by having applied some cuts that only served, in view of the evolution of the debt, so that the demagogues of always had arguments against it. Hey, since the left was going to crush you mercilessly, have applied with courage and decision real measures, however drastic they may have been, to curb spending and contain debt. Once again, the complex and the goodism prevailed in the PP. Does the growth and job creation that the PP achieved compensate for the brutal public debt that it left as an inheritance to all Spaniards? Could the PP have achieved the same growth and the same improvement in employment without having resorted to the savage, unprecedented in all history, increase in public debt? I affirm that yes he could have done it. What is more, he had the obligation to do so, and he failed.
Of course, in this article I am going to get wet, as always. I am going to explain how the PP could have achieved the good economic indicators that it achieved without these being eclipsed by the unacceptable tax increases and the execrable increase in public debt, because the fact that the PP presents these two regrettable parameters within its balance sheet, demonstrates that even in economic terms the PP has betrayed the liberal ideology that defines a conservative political Party.
Am I going to be criticized for raising taxes against my ideology and my electoral promise? Am I going to be reviled for applying some cuts with which I am not even going to be able to stop the increase in debt and I am going to condemn the next generations to a brutal mortgage? Well, I really cut and in 4 years I lower the debt inherited from the PSOE in 2011:
I liquidate the 17 autonomies and their 17 parliaments and governments with their more than 500 autonomous public companies.
I eliminate the perks of all the former regional presidents.
I raise taxes initially to avoid asking for the total rescue at the same time that I draw and expose a plan to finish the first legislature with a tax burden below that inherited from the PSOE in 2011.
If the PP had acted in accordance with the ideology it had, including in the economic aspect, I would not be writing this article.
