Yolanda Díaz defends the Government's fiscal measures against the "gifts to the elites" of "Rajoy and Feijóo"

He presumes that the Executive is going "in the opposite direction" to the PP, whose model generated "a huge inequality gap"

VIGO, 1 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has responded this Saturday to the criticism that Mariano Rajoy made in the La Toja Forum about the Government's fiscal measures, and has defended that the Executive is precisely "correcting" the "enormous inequality gap" generated by the model of the PP, and "of Rajoy and Feijóo".

This has been transferred in statements to the media, before participating in a meeting with workers in the canning sector convened in Vigo by CC.OO. Yolanda Díaz has warned that "there is nothing more dangerous in a society than inequality."

In this regard, he stressed that what Rajoy and Feijóo did with their policies was to generate a "huge inequality gap" in Spain, with a labor reform "designed to impoverish the country in terms of salary", make Spaniards "more unequal" and "cause enormous suffering". "A reform, moreover, designed against female workers," he added.

On the contrary, the Government is "correcting these inequalities" and, for the first time, an Executive "lowers taxes on those who have less, and on SMEs and the self-employed", while "large companies and capital income" must pay more , as emphasized.

"Yes, the models are different. Speaking of Robin Hood, the PP model is to give gifts to the elites, to a few, to those who always win; and ours is to lower taxes on those who have the least. Indeed, we are going in the direction contrary", he has sentenced.

Questioned about whether United We Can is satisfied with the measures or expected a more ambitious action, Yolanda Díaz recalled that her formation defends, since the start of the legislature, "a structural reform in terms of public revenue".

In this regard, he has admitted that "it is time to carry out a fiscal reform" to accommodate the structure of public income "to the needs of the 21st century", which have nothing to do with the last century. "We are advocates of a profound reform that advances the constitutional mandate, so that the big technology companies contribute, that we move towards green taxation, and towards addressing all the highly complex tax engineering of large companies," he added.

However, he stressed that United We Can are "satisfied" with the pact reached, and the tax reform announced these days is "positive for the country." "We are going little by little, because we are going far," he proclaimed, and defended the government's measures for a country "that has low wage incomes" and with inflation "that affects families very hard."