The national representative Margarita Stolbizer (GEN) criticized the National Government’s argument that “there is no money” for the provinces, and stated that it constitutes “a moral affront” because they continue to “uphold” the Promotion Regime in Tierra del Fuego.
After the session held yesterday in the Lower House of Congress where the new retirement formula obtained half a sanction, the socialist parliamentarian took advantage of the occasion to insist with her attack, just as she had done weeks ago when she accused the Casa Rosada of maintaining the Fuegian regime only for the purposes of “benefiting economic power.”
Another who also returned to the fray was Rodrigo de Loredo (UCR), who once again proposed cutting or eliminating tax exemptions for the island: this is how this always euphoric Cordovan suggested that the National Government stop cutting pensions to reach the goal. of the fiscal balance, and instead do so with the Industrial Promotion Regime of Tierra del Fuego.
“Only (the adjustment to retirements and pensions) affects 0.4 of the GDP. While the Government’s proposal is ‘fanta orange because it continues to adjust retirees, and the original proposal of Peronism is ‘disneyland‘which is doing everything that they did not do when they governed and it was more than 2 points of the GDP. That is why our proposal is one of reasonableness,” he noted.
In relation to the above, De Loredo assured that fiscal balance cannot be obtained without increasing rates, without dispensing with State areas and without reducing transfers to provinces, but that it can be achieved without “pruning the pension assets of our old people” and exchanging it for the provincial regime.
“We are going to say it ad nauseam: 0.4 of the GDP (of retirees and pensioners) is something that could easily be exchanged for the tax expenditure of Tierra del Fuego,” he remarked.
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