Social Security

Our own Government recognizes that there is an underground economy of at least 16% of GDP in Spain. With similar percentage of productive activity without any control or any taxation, all official data are mere conjecture or pious approximations to reality. For example, unemployment figures: only so half of these submerged tasks be performed by apparent unemployed, unemployment in this country should not exceed 12%. So would explain that has not produced a deafening social outbreak. From there, the picaresque and the collective golferia are served. How many of these fake unemployed they perceive at once a wage and unemployment compensation? Many taxes we would save if no abundase VAT or no VAT question to hire the famous bungling? It is still frequently offered a taxi driver to give receipts for amount exceeding the race made.

Or that a doctor of Social Security extend recipes you know are going to be resold. With such permissiveness of fraud, we do not scandalise us after the false pawns of the PER, the CAP aid diverted to consumption private, you're benefiting buddies without any relationship with the affected company, reports forged by useless advisors public institutions, etc., etc. Nobody seems to get rid of this epidemic. Years ago, Liberals praised judge Estevill for daring to imprison corrupt businessmen. Then they were dumb to know that more corrupt it was he who locked them up to make them blackmail. And why there are no laws that promote economic transparency and punish any corruption? I am afraid that a so simple question has very easy answer: because legislators, or politicians, as they participate more in such practices. Since the Filesa case, 20 years ago, until the recent cases Gurtel, Pretoria or Palau de la Musica, political parties have been the first to be financed with such practices: additional costs in public works, commissions, cancellations of debts, etc., etc.

What happens is that, in times of plenty, the plenty of money generated in heterodox way bagging irregularly satisfied to all trapisondistas involved in the chain. Now, on the other hand, when pasta isn't for everyone, many of them feel aggrieved. But, then as now, that Yes is unclear that this is still a country of gulfs and rogues.