MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Unions bring Argentina to a halt over income tax and promise more industrial action
Argentine Labor unions will carry out more strikes after a 24-hour walkout Tuesday, if the government doesn’t heed their demand for less tax pressure, a union leader said on Monday.“The measures of force are going to increase if (the government) continues with the provocations and without giving us a response to our demands,” trucker union boss Pablo Moyano said to a local radio station. Read full article
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Mar 31st, 2015 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Less than 8% of working Argentineans pay income tax!
Kicilarff ,
Mar 31st, 2015 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0“given the “trickery” of media outlets ...”
Yep, the media is lying again!!
Just like Maximo said too.
Surely that's illegal defamation of character!!
Better start an investigation!
What??? No, no inventions???
Killitov says “ there are many people who want to work and if they are deprived of transport they are deprived of work” Well that is a strange statement, surely a strike is precisely that objective. Why is it that as soon as someone says that they are going on strike it is against them personally and not the policies of the Government. It is not “ THE GOVERNMENT ” it is the policies of the government that the strike is against. We have this “ VICTIM CULTURE ” again rearing its ugly head.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ever increasing taxes for ever increasing subsidies and graft.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Watching this collapse is delightful.
Simply delightful.
I can't wait until there are hordes of hungry Rgs butchering stolen animals in the streets like when I first moved there.
I can't wait.
Soon very very soon.
Kicillof is, as usual, lying in his teeth. Of the 11 million registered workers, 8 million are included in paying “impuesto a las ganancias” (profit tax). Even pensioners are liable to pay this “profit tax” which is not the same as income tax which would translate as “impuesto a los haberes.”
Mar 31st, 2015 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really feel sorry for you having to deal on a daily basis with such liars. I cannot believe all the mudslinging going on around the Nisman case. Writs flying left right and centre and no-one seems to get on top of anything. It would have been better for the Government to have said as this is so politically sensitive we ought to get an outside agency to investigate. ( outside I mean a foreign agency ) Better to let it muddle through and leave it to the next government is what I understand.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody is kidding anybody on this one. The strike is political and has been launched by corrupt union leaders whose last worry is the welfare of the workers they are supposed to represent. Nothing else.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whether its political or not there is HUGE adherence and it is an indictment of the corrupted K gov't.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Plus Nestor used Picketeros whenever he wanted to stir up trouble.
Nothing new there
I hope the Ks get exactly what they deserve.
The strike is clearly political!
Mar 31st, 2015 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who else but the government fucked the economy up?
I don't give a damn about the Kirchner filth or the unions or the opposition, but I do care about my Argentine friends who are suffering badly because of them.
I think another Bersa 0.22 rf lr is well overdue in the Casa Rosada, I just hope there is enough 0.22 rf ammunition in the country to do the job.
15M Peronistas need to 'come to Jesus'.
Simon. Welcome back. I hope all is well as can be expected. Please enlighten Enrique who left Argentina to live off Canada's fruits, of just how wonderful it is thanks to kirchner's “won” decade. Life is great according to Enrique.....as he enjoys life away from Argentina.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 7 Enrique Massot
Apr 01st, 2015 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice to see you finally admit that there is corruption in Argentina.
Also, interesting that you focus on the Unions.
I just love it when the politicos try to claim that any strike is 'political'.
(ie: against them, and not a real issue)
Of course it is politcal, but in a different way. It is the personal-political. That the govt has failed them.
Isn't 'Popular-Socialism' so great?
They love poor people so much that they create millions more of them.
I thought you supported them?
how odd...
So who is to blame for this mess?
Is it the Unions?
Or the Populist Kirchneristas?
Both claim the 'voice of the people'...
Who would have thought...Mercopress commentators have found traces of a revolutionary spirit at the bottom of their souls and are now cheering for striking unionists...
Apr 01st, 2015 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, keep it up fellows. There are workers around the world in need of support to improve their lot. You got work ahead of you!
Or...is it a feeling that you may be in support of anything as long as it is anti Kirchner only?
12 Enrique
Apr 01st, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Or...is it a feeling that you may be in support of anything as long as it is anti Kirchner only?'
A better question is - why does Enrique support the Peronist Kirchner government, above all else?
Why does Enrique think and say that everyone else is lying, and only Kirchners tell the truth??
Does Enrique not realise that criticising the government, for the sake of a better Argentina, is ac5tually PATRIOTIC ??
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