MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentine farmers defy Cristina Fernandez with ‘silo-bags’ to hoard soybeans
Argentine farmers have stockpiled more than twice as many soybeans this year than in 2014 defying a government desperate to increase export tax revenue needed to finance rising state spending ahead of the October presidential election. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNow all you need is green and brown paint and camouflage nets to hide them from AFIP drones .....
Apr 07th, 2015 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Export what is necessary to survive and store the remainder until after the government is reformed.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0In Chile this is no taxes on exported agricultural products, no obligation to convert the returns to pesos. No bribes to government officials, no bribes to the ports, no bribes to the central bank clerks.
Its good idea, everyone knows that there's a huge devaluation coming after the elections and a tsunami of inflation.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They should just sell the minimum and hope the Kthugs don't rip the bags.
Sad state of affairs.
2 & 3
Apr 07th, 2015 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too right... My farmer buddy there says that they are planning the very same and hoping for reprieve once the mad cow and her herd of sycophants wallow into the darkness...
WTF does the Argentine government expect... Who wants to do anything when they know that they will be ripped off ,,, and the K'ronies will line their pockets with whatever they can steal for themselves... Simple logic!
I challenge the Trolls to comment on this and explain how the Argentinian economy is fit for purpose.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0May I point out...
the government...is pressuring soybean growers to sell so that it can collect the 35% tax it slaps on soybean exports. They are required under a new rule to report each purchase of “silo bag” storage units. Those found to be piling up soy are disqualified from receiving state loans.
35% tax...blimey.
Also...
The government also wants to see more soy sales because growers are required to convert their exports in U.S. dollars into pesos
Sorry where else in the world are citizens required to only hold money in the currency of the governments choosing?
Indeed ... No incentive whatsoever...!
Apr 07th, 2015 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Specially when they know that the converted US$ go right into the bolsa de la rep*ta vieja fea ...
What a fooked up world they live in....
On an aside I read an article today that Hotels in Venezuela are asking Int'l guests to bring their own Toilet Paper, Soap and Shampoo.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Rgs better hope they get sane Prez next time.
History is against them I afraid
but one can hope
YB ... Really ... One could make a business of that... Except that the CHAMO'S will rob you upon entry...
Apr 07th, 2015 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is next... Good for them... A little humility goes a long way...
#5 Zathras
Apr 07th, 2015 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“where else in the world are citizens required to only hold money in the currency of the governments choosing?”
Many do, including Brazil, but it defeats free market principals and obviously bad for businesses.
@3 Everyone in the educated minority. The rest, as usual, don't know what's coming, because they only watch Turkish telenovelas.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.urgente24.com/238706-muy-grave-los-argentinos-prefieren-un-inviable-gradualismo
They could do with planting TMBOA in one of these bags and turning on the bug killing gas.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0End of problem.
It's all stick with Cristina. No wonder people all over the World despise and disrespect her.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've asked many times and not one Rg can explain to me how it is possible to “hoard” private property.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyone want to give it a go.
I need a good laugh...
13 yankeeboy
Apr 08th, 2015 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0So very, very true.
My property, my goods. My business what I do with them.
Re: 'hoarding'
I tried asking this in Vnzla... and was met with a barrage of gibberish, mainly consisting of something about “other people's Rights/dignity/blah, blah, socialist principles, the revolution, blahhh!”
Oh, and some very violent threats and overbearing visits by the military.
No mention of my Rights, my dignity, my employment of others and their dignity. (and my Import Tax paid up-front!).
Oh no! Just that I 'should' sell my products at less than what I paid for them, (in bulk!).
Guess what? I shut my stores.
I no longer do business in Vnzla, and very sadly, no longer employ people there...
Such are the glories of the Bolivarian Robolucion...
Argentinians, watch and learn!
@13
Apr 08th, 2015 - 03:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is what happens in NorthAmoland when your “property” refuses to be hoarded:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-police-officer-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-of-motorist-1428448041?mod=trending_now_10
I think that picture is the epitome of the USA. It should be the first picture on every single encyclopedic article on that country.
And yeah, burn baby burn.
@ 15 STroll with the_TroLL (#)
Apr 08th, 2015 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Classic example of your inability to answer the question, (any quetion), posed by @ 13 yankeeboy.
You simply try to distract.
So, let's look at some facts, (I know you hate this).
The article is about Argentine economic failings and the attempts of a corrupt govt. to control private enterprise in order to massage their own figures and exploit people.
You wish to digress into an incident in the USA that, (allegedly), one man killed another, and is now facing the full force of the law for his actions.
1) how does this make Argentina a better place?
2) what has it got to do with you?
3) why are you not reporting on other, (alleged), crimes across the globe? I hear hear that other people have been killed in other countries too...
Would you like to talk about 'hoarding' or are are you too weak and have nothing to say?
Argentina's homicide rate is higher that the USA.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 04:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nostrils has no comeback for that so he will disappear.
Argentina's homicide rate is massively higher than the UK.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 04:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nostrils has no comeback for that so he will disappear.
;-)
I think it is a sad day, even for Anglos, when two specimens of this race fail to grasp the nuance between being a drug dealer and getting killed by another drug dealer (i.e. 90% of homicides in Rosario or Buenos Aires), or getting killed by a covetous partner (e.g. a love drama)... vs. BEING GUNNED DOWN to death in public by the LAW ENFORCEMENT OF YOUR COUNTRY, because of such execrable crimes like a traffic ticket, selling a half dozen cigarettes, or because you are a 12-year old with a plastic gun.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 05:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not my country.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 05:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0But glad to see that some people's lives are worth more than others.
So back to talking about the article rather than other news.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0If I own goods here in the west I can sell them at whatever price I want,
in whatever currency I want.
I may be taxed on profits, but at sensible rates.
But an profit I can keep in any currency I desire.
Thus I am empowered to make more profits and better myself.
So do explain how the Argentinian system is superior?
With the dolar blue down at 12.2 the farmers will soon be selling and buying USD on the black market, so I don't expect it to go down much further.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As most of you can imagine I'd rather live in the USA with our Police protection than Argentina with theirs.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not afraid of our Police.
I am glad they take the actions they do.
This recent increase in reporting on “bad shootings” (which usually turn out to be justified) is another media induced frenzy that stupid liberals love and always fall for. Liberals don't care if they lie so long as it “serves” their ends.
Filthy people.
God you don't even have to look far for police brutality in Argentina.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At least people know when police kill people in the U.S.
http://panampost.com/adam-dubove/2015/02/05/the-forgotten-victims-of-argentinas-police-state/
So not one of the Kidiots on this board can answer how you can hoard personal property.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No surprise.
There's something mentally wrong with these Kidiots.
Also looks like Soy is unprofitable even in Tier 1 areas like BA province. :)
It takes a special kind of talent to ruin a countries businesses that have been around for 100+ years. Nice “Modelo”
I hope the next Prez can fix it.
History shows that you'll be poorer and dumber next year tho...
Anglos yet again (Ozzers) thinking they are above the law, what a shock. They talk and yap about the rule of law, but when it applies to themselves, of course let's not apply the rules then!
Apr 08th, 2015 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://news.yahoo.com/australia-doing-everything-bali-death-row-pair-032627198.html
And what about protecting the environment? Anglo countries at it again:
http://news.yahoo.com/australia-doing-everything-bali-death-row-pair-032627198.html
It's been scientifically proven baby elephants younger than 5 suffer psychological trauma and developmental problems if they are taken away from their mothers. Elephants have some of the most complex maturity requirements after human children.
Further proof:
http://news.yahoo.com/australia-doing-everything-bali-death-row-pair-032627198.html
But of course what do these Zimbabwean Anglos care? Typical Anglos.
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