Pensions, Milei and Andorra: the debate nobody wants to settle
Economist Eduardo Garzón defends raising taxes on the rich to save Spain's pension system; liberals call it plunder. Milei and Andorra loom in the background of a debate with no end in sight.
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Pensions, Milei and Andorra: who pays for the party?
Economist Eduardo Garzón is back in the spotlight with an interview in which he defends raising taxes on the rich to save pensions. The reaction is swift: he is accused of being an «intellectual pauper» who proposes «printing more money» and of wanting to «squeeze the productive class». In the middle of it all, the name of Javier Milei, Argentina's libertarian, appears as the banner of the opposing stance: lower taxes and a smaller state.
The underlying issue is well known: the public pension system is demographically unsustainable and each side has its own remedy. The left proposes taxing large fortunes, often sheltered in tax havens like Andorra. The liberal right calls it plunder and defends individual capitalization. The debate, however, rarely gets down to concrete numbers.
Beneath it all lies the question nobody wants to answer: who really pays for the party? Pensions are not just numbers, as a recent analysis points out, but the final chapter of an intergenerational pact that is falling apart. While Milei gains trinc and Garzón sticks to his message, the bill keeps growing with no agreement on who should foot it.
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Economist Eduardo Garzón is back in the spotlight with an interview in which he defends raising taxes on the rich to save pensions. The reaction is swift: he is accused of being an «intellectual pauper» who proposes «printing more money» and of wanting to «squeeze the productive class». In the middle of it all, the name of Javier Milei, Argentina's libertarian, appears as the banner of the opposing stance: lower taxes and a smaller state.
The underlying issue is well known: the public pension system is demographically unsustainable and each side has its own remedy. The left proposes taxing large fortunes, often sheltered in tax havens like Andorra. The liberal right calls it plunder and defends individual capitalization. The debate, however, rarely gets down to concrete numbers.
Beneath it all lies the question nobody wants to answer: who really pays for the party? Pensions are not just numbers, as a recent analysis points out, but the final chapter of an intergenerational pact that is falling apart. While Milei gains trinc and Garzón sticks to his message, the bill keeps growing with no agreement on who should foot it.
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