The president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, criticized this Sunday the increase in the Tax on Petroleum Products (ISP), considering that it is an “unfair measure” and that it has had a “double fiscal effect.”
When leaving a mass for the 42nd anniversary of the death of Francisco Sá Carneiro, Adelino Amaro da Costa and companions in the accident of the plane in which they were traveling, Luís Montenegro was consulted by journalists about the decision taken by the Government on Friday to reduce the ISP Discount this month due to falling prices.
“Since the beginning of this spiral of rising fuel prices, we remember that one of the first measures that the PS government took when it took office seven years ago was to increase the ISP,” he criticized in statements leaving the Basilica da Star. .
For the PSD leader, it is “an unfair measure, a measure that affects everyone equally, a measure that affects not only the ordinary citizen but also the business dynamics of the economy.”
“During the last year, what has happened is that the successive increases in the ISP have an effect of double taxation: it is this tax that rises and it is VAT that rises on the price that includes this tax,” he said.
The PSD, according to its leader, has had “many times to urge the Government to take measures to reduce the ISP” and to “propose a reduction in VAT on fuel and energy.”
“Unfortunately, the path of the Government has always been that and, as Francisco Sá Carneiro said a moment ago, when he defined the Social Democratic matrix of the PSD, the main purpose was for the State to serve the citizens and that the State should give the citizens more than what you ask for. Well, it is exactly the opposite of what the PS does today, ”he compared.
In Montenegro’s analysis, the PS “takes away most of the wealth they create from citizens, takes away most of the wealth they create from businesses and offers, in return, the abandonment of essential public services, as unfortunately feel today the Portuguese in terms of health, education, access to culture, sport.
The journalists also questioned the president of the PSD about the euthanasia process, and the PSD leader assured that this week he will speak on the subject.
Questioned about the fact that he even defended the referendum, Montenegro only said that he is not one to “change his convictions”, but nothing else helped.
Source: Observadora
