Basic income, price control and prohibiting layoffs: Iglesias

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Imposes the Bolivarian style Iglesias is increasingly pressing to grant basic income to Spaniards during the state of alarm. Garzón has warned that he will study imposing price controls on masks and medical supplies. The Government has prohibited layoffs during the state of alarm. by Javier de Benito Hernandez That Podemos has taken the reins of the Government during the coronavirus crisis is no mystery. Most of the social policies that the Executive will adopt in the coming months to alleviate the consequences of the coronavirus crisis have been born within Vice President Pablo Iglesias. And all of them seem to flirt with the Bolivarian style, at least the most effective ones, such as prohibiting layoffs during the state of alarm, controlling the price of masks and other health goods or the application of basic income, so criticized by the PSOE. . "It is essential to work so that there is a minimum vital income that does not leave anyone in the lurch, because we all know that this virus does not understand territories but it does understand.  

Social classes," said the social vice president of the Government. For Iglesias , basic income is a necessity for the population . But these measures, which do have opposition within the Gover Christmas Island Email List nment, especially that of the other vice president Nadia Calviño, do not come isolated, but accompanied by an  other “social” package that has a lot to do with the Bolivarian style that Nicolás has applied (and applies) Maduro in Venezuela. by Taboolayou may like Brussels disavows Josep Borrell and deals a setback to the Government for its support for UNRWA Basic income is a demand that entered as unthinkable, that the Spanish social democrats assumed years later and that now seems to be a reality with which Iglesias delves into the schism between the PSOE and Podemos that threatens to break the Government. But it is very likely that it will be applied, at least in the most vulnerable groups in society: those with the least income.



Now there are European countries like France that have not frowned upon joining this Bolivarian style so criticized in previous times. Prohibiting dismissal has been unthinkable for the acolytes of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and neoliberal theories in other times , but in the face of the pandemic crisis, considerations have changed. And a lot. It is not surprising that the Government has adopted this measure so quickly and with so little opposition that it surprises the representatives of the employers' association and other neoliberal groups. Added to this is the new demand that also seems to have the approval of the Government: that of controlling the prices of masks and other types of medical supplies. Demand rises and businessmen (some) respond by raising prices, this is the case in all Economics faculties and is a basic rule that governs the market . However, now, with people admitted to hospitals and professionals risking their health, the most despicable and disgusting attitude of some characters who have.