The King has made his assets public, amounting to 2.5 million euros, for the first time in history. I found out while I was in the middle of a melodramatic moment about sending the draft tax return, when you have to choose between the box to enter the refund in your checking account or resign. It is a moment in which the saint usually goes to heaven asking me who should mark that he rejects his money so that the Tax Agency keeps it, pondering that the aforementioned exemplary taxpayer would have a good interview. Thinking if maybe it will be so little money that you feel liberated when thinking ‘let them put it in for…’, if it will be a little joke that the people in charge of the liens allow themselves so that everything is not so scary, or that they play it to Let the stressed or uneducated paganinis be wrong. It has happened to me that I suggest that in that period of deconcentration I have given up voluntarily and I have given my pinch to the Treasury, and then I reverse the process and start again. I am the Sisyphus of taxes, but in the end I manage to climb the mountain with my stone and not fall again. Surely this has not happened to Felipe VI, who has enjoyed premium paperwork, so that his debut in the stormy universe of transparency is successful. Now we know that we have a thrifty monarch. Those possible, 2.26 million in deposits and securities, and 305,000 in art, jewelery and antiques, come from the remuneration it has received in the last 25 years from public budgets, 4.2 million euros, that is, it has managed to save half. He must be congratulated because, as economists say, the welfare state depends on savings and he far exceeds the national average. You will be, like all of us, worried about the inflation that has been primed with household accounts, and for the predictions that this year families will be able to save 50 percent of what they would in 2021. If last year they saved 11.4 percent of their gross income, this 2022 they will reserve 6 ,9. It would be a good thing for the frugal King to convey to Pedro Sánchez or Nadia Calviño the concerns of those 7 out of 10 Spanish families that are at their savings limit, they are involved in avoiding the red numbers.
There will be those who say that if Don Felipe spends little it is because has few expenses, a privileged person without mortgages and with electricity bills and runaway shopping carts that the National Heritage covers with other items. That his salary could even be lowered. However, it should be noted that, with your savings, you could just buy a little house in my ‘gentrified’ neighborhood with insanely stratospheric real estate prices, much in demand by the Nordic and Central European upper-middle classes, who live like kings on our shores. It is not necessary to compare the monarch’s heritage with his European counterparts to see that it is really modest. Incredibly modest, I’d say. Just remember thehis father’s shady financial affairs whose investigation was filed by the Prosecutor’s Office, those 65 million gift from Saudi Arabia that he donated to Corinna Larsen. Or to think that the commission agents Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño collected 6.6 million public money for brokering a purchase of defective sanitary material in full confinement. Come on, because of the King’s treasure ‘for the sake of it’ some aristocrat doesn’t even get out of bed, nor does he bother to make the call to the cousin of the mayor of Madrid.