They propose a cap on water, gas and energy rates with the surplus borne by the Province

From the PRO bloc, made up of Enrique Cesarini and Natalia Saseta, they presented a project through which they seek to establish “a cap regime for charging rates for public services for water, gas and electricity for housing for all concepts billed according to income. of the user”. With a nod to libertarian management, within the initiative the yellow space indicates who the proposal reaches and establishes a salary percentage limit for the payment of each service. In this sense, for electricity it contemplates that the rate may not exceed 12% of net income, 8.8% for the gas bill and 3% in the case of the bill for drinking water. According to what they indicate, the excess of the cap “must be absorbed by the Provincial State, who must regulate the mechanics of implementing the absorption of the remaining costs.”

“In order to guarantee quality public services, with a view to the economic and social development of all sectors of the population, it is necessary to review the impact that public services determine on the payment capacity of Catamarca residents and, by virtue of this , make a decision from the State to guarantee access and use of these services in such a way that the principles of equity and solidarity are met,” both legislators say in the project.

In this order of ideas, they maintain that “it is necessary to be able to legislatively determine a mechanism so that the collection of services does not have an economic impact of burden on the working and passive mass of Catamarcans who cannot access these services in a dignified manner. ”. Thus, they suggest establishing a system “intertwined with the income databases of the state wage bill, that of Anses and AFIP, to determine the income of Catamarca residents who intend to adjust to this modality of responsible and dignified consumption.”

Of course, they assure that the spirit of the project “in no way intends to compromise the state coffers, but given the priorities of allocation and reallocation of resources, it becomes completely appropriate because there are provincial resources for expenses that we understand to be of lower criteria than incommensurable.” need of Catamarcans to develop a dignified life with the necessary services covered.”

With a wink, the duet that makes up the PRO bloc alludes to the management of Javier Milei to mention that “although these benefits are for public and independent employees in the private sector or self-employed workers, this is because the logic where it points the new Argentina, is that the public sector is going to be less and less attractive to get a job or stay in it, all of this supported by the idea of ​​the current National Government, which interprets the claim of Argentine society, that the “The State must increasingly become smaller and more effective.”

Thus, they propose that the cap benefit agents of the provincial public administration, the legislature and the judiciary “whatever the contracting method, whose net income does not exceed the amount resulting from the sum of two basic baskets established by the CPI , which is published monthly by Indec for the current month.” Added to these are municipal employees from communes without an Organic Charter, monotributists and self-employed workers and retirees and pensioners, whose net income does not exceed two basic baskets.