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Argentine farmers blitz stops lawmakers vote on land tax increase
A last-minute lobbying blitz by farmers in Argentina's top grains-producing province stopped lawmakers from approving a tax increase that some growers said would force them to sell their fields. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesKFC supporters want to end the legal ban on third term presidential positions, why stop there? why not go for unlimited terms in office. No one saw this coming, much!!!!!!!
May 18th, 2012 - 04:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hmmm, dictatorship springs to mind.
May 18th, 2012 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why stop at unlimited terms in office, I'm sure the banning of all opposition parties is on it's way.
Unlimited re-election, which we have for all posts already in Britain, depends of course on the people continuing to elect the candidate; I've always thought it was more democratic than artificial term limits. When it means getting as talented and brilliant a leader as my Queen, as opposed to stiff like Scioli, its a rela no brainer
May 18th, 2012 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Three terms...is monarchy”. FCH
May 18th, 2012 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Aquellos que se hagan de la Suma del Poder Público, sean declarados reos de alta traición” CNA (in Spanish in the original)
I guess farmers don't like that their property taxes may go up 1000%!!
May 18th, 2012 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a loony place!
They could always follow the Zimbabwian model. Seize all the land, parcel it off to loyal supporters and sit back and watch it all go to hell in a hand basket. I know it all sounds incredulous, until you remember who's calling the shots there!
May 18th, 2012 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 & 2 Were you not talking about unlimited terms in office? Where do you think BK got “unlimited re-election” from? Is the plan not to do away with elections so that argie people don't have to Think about who to elect?
May 18th, 2012 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think that because her supporters want to overturn the ban, they seem fairly certain that they can get her into office for a third term, why else try to change it. Says a lot doesn't it, three years before the next election and they already know the result!
May 18th, 2012 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#8 Well at least it means they aren't on the brink of abandoning ship, contraty to your side's predictions; hows that for a reality check? =)
May 18th, 2012 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, that's okay then. Political corruption and vote rigging is acceptable as long as it brings continuity of power. How's that for a reality check?
May 19th, 2012 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#10 Who said anything about vote rigging; if the people want to vote against Cristina I'm in favour of letting the result faithfully record that, and the crap choice having consequences, just as my thinking the re-election of Boris Johnson will have crap consequences doesn't mean I'd have wanted Ken Livingstone to cheat. Ken was standing for the 4th time by the way; London elected him twice and rejected him twice - how is that undemocratic even though if he'd won all those elections he could have been in office for 16 years? As I said before let the people decide
May 20th, 2012 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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