Last week, several social associations denounced the Administration’s intention to further curtail the human rights of the most disadvantaged people (young people, immigrants, women and the unemployed). The financial economic crisis, which affects large banks and financial institutions, has an extraordinary impact on those who have not been responsible for this. Public administrations do not dare to impose excise duties on rich bankers and large companies. However, they have opted for a reduction in corporate tax. However, they are not ashamed of lowering social incomes, which are already low, or of tightening the conditions for access to them.

The Basque Government, with the support of the PSOE and the pp, is in the process of drafting new legislation on income guarantee. This will make access to social services more difficult. They say that the CAV’s social protection system has collapsed, because using EUR 400 million for 55,000 beneficiaries is not sustainable for the future. The PSOE and pp do not care that more of that amount is forgiven to employers in taxes. They attack the weakest: the poor and the excluded. One of five!

They say there's no money in public coffers. They know where a good piece is: in tax havens and in the pockets of those fleeing tax. And you know where to get it out: imposing higher tax burdens on bankers, bankers, entrepreneurs and big fortunes, chasing those havens and those who flee. Curtailing the rights of the poor, young people, women, immigrants and the marginalised is criminalising poverty.