The municipal government spokesman, Josefa María Sánchez, announced that the City will present a series of proposals, through motions to be discussed at the next full ordinary, which seek to protect the main productive sectors of the locality, such as construction, trade and transport, respectively.
Méndez Sánchez has described as "threatening, antisocial and hostile" the latest measures announced by the Government of the Nation, which show the "dire" economic and social policies of President Zapatero.
In this regard, said that the latest decisions are based and supported in their greed fiscal revenue collection, the rise in commodities like water, fuel and electricity, and cutting back on promotion, as the arrival of the AVE to the Shire Guadalentín seriously harming the interests of the people of Totana and the Region.
The mayor said that despite the limitations of local government, these motions are intended to be an alternative to the forecasts and policy decisions of the Government in recent weeks.
The popular mayor has claimed that the National Government, instead of creating jobs and wealth in Totana, choking workers and employers, while destabilizing the municipal coffers with the descent of eleven per cent on money transfers of State taxes monthly to the City Council of Totana., ie about 43,000 euros less each month than it deserves.
In addition, estimated at about 200 euros with the added cost totaneras families this summer after the recent tax increases, such as VAT, and goods and services, and that translates into an apparent decline in household consumption and quality of life of citizens.
The council announced support for Totana sector carriers and transmitted the discomfort of Totana Transport Association, which comprises more than 70 professionals, for the possible implementation of tax called the "Eurovignette", which would mean tolls on highways public vehicles over 3,500 kilos of weight of ten cents per mile traveled.
This fee, supposedly, as he said, would offset internal costs (construction and maintenance) and external (environmental pollution) of road infrastructure.
They are also going to present another proposal to show rejection to municipal aid cuts to subsidized housing (VPO) announced by the National Government under the Housing Plan 2009/2012.
Sanchez said that this initiative comes from disappearing aid to pay the entry of the VPO and the terrible consequences that will have on production sectors involved and the whole society in general, by implementing the initiative "has transmitted "the Association of Construction (AEMC) of Lower Guadalentín and numerous companies in this county.
He explained that the cut of this new "decretazo" in aid for social housing, now known as "snip to OPV," violates the principles of social justice and equity, and requires the destruction of a pillar of the Welfare State , as the right to housing.
Similarly, reported an initiative to support the residents of Totana that develop as a first activity and family livelihood, peddling to the constraints of the exercise of that activity by the application of the new rules.
It contains many restrictions on the development of street trading to the professionals, because they are forced periodically to limit the authorization for and not allowed to extend any deadlines set or have the same deal without a specific periodicity.
Insensitive measures that give back
The city spokesman said that all these policy measures are "insensitive, improvised and give back" to the real needs of families, workers, businesses and households of Totana and do not contribute or contribute to respond to the needs of productive sectors, since they do not generate confidence and encourage consumption, he said.
He criticized these actions hinder the future of the middle classes and the productive sectors that are driving the local economy just to pay Zapatero errors, and added that they need the totaneros and Murcia is not submission but vindication.
He reiterated that the Zapatero government has marginalized the Region of Murcia making autonomy brunt of cuts in the Ministry of Development, neglecting the historical debt to other communities if they have been paid or repealing the Ebro transfer, as a By now everyone knows, was the ultimate solution for agriculture in Murcia.
In 2009 the State Government transferred to the Consistory of 417,000 euros each month in taxes each of the totaneros, however, and in the first month of 2010 has recorded a drop of 11 percent, 347,000 euros, 43,000 euros less each month that the City fails to receive the money that it deserves.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: Totana.com