In Spain, elites want to take the assault public pensions. Much money, consider, must be his. And, with the excuse of being sustainable, they deteriorate the system, decapitalize social security and ransack the Reserve Fund of public pensions. So the government of Rajoy puts his hand to the Fund. Again. Almost 9,000 million euros.
Created in 2000 for extraordinary situations and to pay pensions, the Fund had 67.000 million euros in 2011. But Rajoy has already got their hands three times, removing more than 41,000 million euros. This time stealthily, so do not talk in election campaign.
Meanwhile, economists guard the monarchical regime 78 (until recently bipartisan), claim that the Social Security loses contributors (by unemployment, low wages and lower tax revenues), the Reserve Fund will be empty in 2018 and touting that public pensions are not ‘sustainable’. According to the Toledo Pact social security contributions to finance public pensions and they say no longer reach. But why be financed with pension contributions? We talk about rights. And, to address rights, the rule imposes taxes it collects. What the Toledo Pact was good, but in the neoliberal looting people’s rights must be above all. Do not fall into the trap of sustainability and stop tearing his hair out because the prices decrease. There are taxes. tax to combat, for example, and tax avoidance by large companies to eliminate fraud.
Are not the Spanish public pensions sustainable? According to Eurostat, they are the cheapest in Europe. The Spanish public pension expenditure was in 2010 (latest available data) of 1,862 euros per capita, when the European average was 2,769 euros per citizen, 3,295 in Italy, 3,421 in Germany and 3,658 euros in France. Just reaching the European average spending, public pensions would like rocks.
But there is no such policy in 2013 will, the PP government appointed a Committee of Experts on Pension a report on life expectancy and public pensions. The alleged wonks ruled that public pensions were unsustainable. And they proposed reducing the amount and people retire later. According Vincente Navarro, proposals of this Committee were the most brutal of the European Union in cuts public pensions.
Based on these unreliable wonks, the PP government devises a new model of public pensions 2019. increasing the retirement age to 67 years, decouple pension increases CPI, link it to the march of the economy and calculating the pension as life expectancy. Longer life expectancies, less pension. The problem seems to be, according to the wonks, today people live longer. We will have to go back to the Middle Ages …
But so unworthy invocation very suspicious sustainability. Because the only real interest is the Earth, nature and use of resources, because of pensions, for example, it is only an excuse that makes up the indecent greed of a few. Does anyone seriously call into question whether the Civil Guard is sustainable? Public pensions are not economic but of rights issue. Rights! Well, if not, forget it because this is a disgusting farce. People have a right to a dignified life and public pensions must be secure. A distant for more than half of pensioners in Spain (almost 5 million) actually living below the poverty line.
Even the neoliberal looting with the excuse of the crisis, public pensions were not problem, but now they come up with the bogey of sustainability because there is business for the rich minority. But the rights of people must go ahead. Yes or yes. If contributions do not reach, pensions are financed fair, progressive and enough taxes. The state can.
These neoliberal always cut spending and do not intend to increase revenue, because that is what suits their ‘gentlemen’. They are not legit. They do not believe a word. Almost all linked to banks and insurance companies, which, incidentally, would gain considerable benefits if public pensions were adrift and ordinary people would be forced to underwrite private pensions.
There is no question of sustainability . but of rights
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