The Sánchez Government claims that it has achieved inclusive growth. What they did was dope GDP with spending and debt and impoverish everyone. Equality? Equalizing downward and impoverishing.
The Juan de Mariana Institute shows in a new report that the increase in the SMI is actually a propaganda measure that only aims to increase all taxes by increasing the minimum contribution base, but rather has a detrimental effect on the rest of wagesin a country where productivity is stagnant.
By fiscally penalizing productivity and rewarding interventionism, they managed to “Wage egalitarianism and economic impoverishment.”
Between 2018 and 2023, the interprofessional minimum wage increased by 26% in real terms, without any improvement in productivity. The effect? In the same period, The most common salary received fell from almost 16 thousand to less than 14 thousand euros.
In several autonomous communities, the minimum wage is almost equivalent to the modal wage. Lifelong socialism.
The Government is proud of a drop in unemployment of 600 thousand people, but real data shows that it does not reach 70 thousand
The minimum wage exceeds 60% of the average wage in 42 of the 50 provinces and 75% in 34 provinces. In 2024 it reached 78.7% in Ávila, 77.3% in Zamora and 75.8% in Badajoz. In SMEs, it represents up to 90.8% of the average salary in Ávila and more than 85% in provinces such as Murcia or Alicante.
Interventionists say the minimum wage increase did not destroy jobs, arguing the figure of “21.7 million members.” Employment record! However, it is a fallacy, since this number comes from the dizzying increase in immigration, since 75% of new jobs are due to immigration, there are 800,000 multiple workers and thousands of “affiliates” with almost no pay.
It is no surprise, therefore, that effective unemployment has not decreased since 2019 and is above 3.4 million and that the activity rate is stagnant at 59%.
The increase in the SMI in 2019 eliminated up to 174 thousand jobs, and the cumulative effect 2019-2023 reaches 210 thousand, potentially reaching 270 thousand in 2024. Cepyme goes further and estimates that, by 2025, Smaller companies failed to create 350,000 jobs due to the indiscriminate increase in the minimum wage. In agriculture and domestic employment alone, 20,000 and 14,000 jobs were destroyed, respectively.
The Government is proud of a drop in unemployment of 600 thousand people, but real data shows that it does not reach 70 thousand, due to the reclassification of discontinuous inactive permanent employees as employed, which represents almost 90% of the reduction sold by the Executive. It is not surprising that there are nine regions where the number of officially unemployed people is lower than the number of people receiving unemployment benefits.
The reality of Spain is a country impoverished by interventionist policies that have only one objective: to create poor people who are dependent,
According to the Juan de Mariana Institute report, spending on minimum vital income is multiplied by nine and Spain currently has more than seven million people receiving subsidies, with an annual cost of 28.5 billion euros.
Widespread impoverishment is evident. Real net wages have fallen since 2019. Spain is the fourth OECD country with the worst wage growth over the last three decades.
The closer the modal wage approaches the minimum, the more pronounced the tendency towards stagnation, since “incentives to train, improve professionally or take on responsibilities are reduced, slowing social mobility and fueling the underground economy and precarious jobs”.
The reality of Spain is a country impoverished by interventionist policies which have only one objective: to create poor and dependent people, hostages of a predatory State.
The real data from Spain is atrocious:
The most common salary barely exceeds the minimum wage at 36 euros per month. Productivity is stagnant and interventionist measures are worsening with doped GDP data and stagnant GDP per capita.
The total number of people registered in Sepe and who are not working is above the 3.7 million real unemployed people in October. 38,993 more than in September. This means that effective unemployment has hardly decreased since 2019. In September there were 740 thousand inactive permanent discontinuous workers.
The number of unemployment benefit requests registered nationally in the month of September 2025 amounted to 660,086, an increase of 8.3% compared to the same month of the previous year. In nine provinces there are more people collecting unemployment than “officially unemployed”.
Effective unemployment exceeding 3.4 million, membership inflated by a record of multiple jobs and contracts with almost no remuneration, stagnant activity rate, economy disguised by political spending, debt and immigration, a country of poor workers who lose real net purchasing power, inflation above the euro zone average despite statistical changes… Spain’s reality is that of a zombie painted in color by government propaganda.
The only record in Spain is waste.
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