What they call social justice is a big lie. It has nothing to do with what the social doctrine of the Church reflects, as some argue. The “social justice” of socialism is to eliminate equality before the law, to give politicians the power to decide what is just or unjust and to impose privilege and penalty for political affiliation.
As the great economist Luis Pazos explains, “Social justice is the opposite of justice per se, since it implies the violation of the human right to property, a fundamental premise of the birth of our civilization.” Thomas Sowell, always right, recalls that “envy was once considered one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name “social justice.””
Promising social justice with the hackneyed “the rich will pay for it” is one of Sánchez’s most obscene lies. He only seeks to generate envy and confrontation. If there are “privileged elites” as Sánchez says, they are around him. No, a person does not have “money in the bank for a hundred lives,” and Sánchez is nobody to decide how much and what he should have. What he calls the rich invests in companies, in capitalizing the economy, in job creation and, in addition, in financing the enormous level of debt that he issues… The social justice that Sánchez sells is socialist misery. Envy, plunder and equalizing downwards.
It is outrageous that the media close to the government have been carrying out a campaign for months to make you aware that if you earn more than 25,000 euros a year, you are rich and you have to keep quiet. Pay taxes and keep quiet. If your company wins a public contract, you must pay homage to the one who governs or suffer the ridicule of the new inquisition which, meanwhile, applauds the fact that the wife and brother of the president are a clear example of that privileged elite that has access to contracts that are impossible for ordinary mortals to obtain.
When Sánchez and his partners talk about taxing the rich, they are referring to doctors, independent professionals, freelancers, architects, engineers… While they call you rich, Díaz earns what almost no Spanish businessman earns, and with expenses paid.
The middle classes have borne 80% of the increase in tax pressure under Sánchez. Increases in indirect taxes on savings, investment, real estate and the illegitimate refusal of the Sánchez Government to index personal income tax to inflation, which has cost the average taxpayer a hidden increase in personal income tax of more than 10.5%, as explained by Ignacio Ruiz-Jarabo, former director of the Tax Agency.
In true Maduro style, Sánchez has stated that the 25 billion euros that the agreement in Catalonia will cost the country will be financed by the fallacy of taxes on the rich. “Less Lamborghini and more public transport” said the king of the Falcon.
In Spain, 34 Lamborghinis have been sold so far this year. There are only 852 rich people with more than 30 million euros in assets in a country of 47 million people, and only 234 of them have a taxable net worth. Only 15,000 people declare a salary of more than 600,000 euros in a country with 16 million private salaries. There are only 5,500 companies with more than 250 employees in a country with 3.2 million companies, of which 54% have no employees. They all work from dawn to dusk and what we need is not hatred and envy, but many more Lamborghinis, many more large companies and many more rich people. We should not lower the bar for rich people in prime time and tell the audience of a left-wing channel that if you earn 2,500 euros a month you are rich.
Sánchez will continue to impoverish Spanish society while increasing the privileges of the confiscatory political sector. Destroying the middle class is a priority for socialism, both left and right. This creates client hostages dependent on a confiscatory state that will always blame a ridiculous number of “rich” while its voters applaud.
That is why those who are truly immensely rich are delighted and support the socialism that is suffocating us. Some say they are delighted to pay more taxes, but, surprise!, they neither fire their tax advisor nor come to Spain as tax residents, nor make a donation to the Treasury, which is always at their disposal.
From the tax residence in Panama it is very convenient to ask for more taxes. Socialism is the best way to ensure that no one enters their circle. It makes it almost impossible for anyone to overshadow or compete with them and, in addition, the cost in higher taxes is either avoided or simply considered a tribute to maintaining their privilege. Why do they think that certain multimillionaires happily meet with the same Sánchez, Iglesias or Díaz, who pretend to attack them in the media and also vote for them? It is a small tribute to perpetuate their market share. A tariff on competition. Few people are richer and more privileged than the plundering politicians in Cuba or Venezuela and their “boliburgueses.” The interventionists defend a tax on large fortunes and those large fortunes hovering around socialism are delighted because they know that it is a Trojan horse that hides many more taxes from everyone else, that from their tax residence in other countries social (in)justice is defended with vigor because it comes with additional benefits for them on the other hand.
Socialism is a tariff on wealth and progress. Socialism is the best ally of some ultra-rich and the greatest enemy of the entrepreneur and the self-employed. They never redistribute from the rich to the poor, but from the middle class to the bureaucrats. It impoverishes you and enriches those who exploit you. Social justice, they call it. The real privileged elite.