Good harvest year for Argentina farmers and the tax man, in spite of drought

Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 23:01 UTC

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A good crop year for Argentine farmers and the government: export revenue will be up 4 billion US dollars and the tax man will bag an additional 888 million US dollars according to estimates from local grain dealers. Read full article

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briton
And just what will they do with this money.
donate to the poor perhaps .
Feb 18th, 2011 - 02:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
“Good harvest year for Argentina farmers and the tax man, in spite of drought”
Where are the people celebrating our drought a few weeks ago?
Feb 18th, 2011 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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I
#2 they are probably at the stock market busy driving the price of the world food supply through the roof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA
Feb 18th, 2011 - 04:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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WestisBest
Pity your government doesn't want to export eh?
Feb 18th, 2011 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Y Draig Goch
Due to the drought prices sky rocketed, which meant good money for the farmers and subsequent taxation, but made everything more expensive for the consumer....this article is Capitolism-tastic !
Feb 18th, 2011 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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