Socialism and its tendency to turn things that were once very normal into a luxury

The free market economy has achieved levels of prosperity never before seen in the history of humanity.

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Thanks to this economic perspective, the car has become an affordable item for many people, becoming a common means of transport for all kinds of journeys. This achievement has expanded travel possibilities to levels never before seen in history, allowing our society to enjoy a freedom that few had in the past.

This should be something to celebrate for everyone, but there are still people who put their ideology above the well-being of others, perhaps because it bothers them that the free market economy they detest has achieved what the political policies they advocate could never have. Perhaps that's why the left is making enormous efforts to destroy all the progress made by the free market, with a single objective: to subject us all to increasingly strict control by the State —that is, by the leftist politicians who are striving to expand it ever further.

Yesterday, Spain's Director General of Traffic, the socialist Pere Navarro, described the use of a car by a single person as a luxury we cannot afford. He's referring to private citizens, of course. Politicians like Pere Navarro travel everywhere in official cars paid for by everyone. They don't consider it a luxury, just as they don't consider it a luxury that people like Pere Navarro receive a public salary of 97,000 euros, or that they travel on official planes and enjoy all kinds of comforts and privileges at the taxpayers' expense.

Socialism is a disastrous ideology that tends to turn things that were once commonplace into luxuries. Cars are a prime example, but they're not the only one. Due to the disastrous policies of the coalition government of socialists and communists led by Pedro Sánchez, items like olive oil, fish, meat, and eggs are also becoming luxuries, with increasingly higher prices for consumers. Beyond the shopping basket, the disastrous housing policy of the Spanish left has turned an apartment into an unattainable luxury for many, though not for the high-ranking socialist officials appointed through nepotism who live like kings at our expense.

Obviously, in the economic sphere there are no simple problems or magic solutions, but if one thing has become clear, it's that socialism is a disaster and the market economy works, especially when the State isn't eager to appropriate an ever-increasing share of wealth, fiscally fleecing its citizens. Spain has a clear path for certain things to cease being a luxury and return to what they once were: affordable goods that can be purchased without needing a salary as high as Pere Navarro's. Obviously, socialism is not that path, but the opposite. Just look at what that odious ideology has done to a once prosperous country like Venezuela, and not only in the economic sphere.

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