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Tax free imported vehicles for residents from Kirchner's Santa Cruz province
Argentine residents from the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, the Kirchner family political stronghold, will be allowed to buy imported cars free of federal taxes, according to the latest resolution 31/2015, signed by president Cristina Fernandez and published in the official Gazette. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI suppose its one rule for the chosen and the rest can suck it up!!
May 01st, 2015 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since we were in Sta Cruz Province before the Argentines & therefore Sta Cruz is rightfully ours, that should mean that we can have some of these tax-free imported cars also.
May 01st, 2015 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0l want the latest Mercedes convertible sports car.
Pearly white if you please.
More populist pandering to the plebs. Only in Argentina. ..
May 01st, 2015 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0the lousy ck robberment gang has no sense of shame at all as they will be kicked off in december.
May 01st, 2015 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 2 Isolde
May 01st, 2015 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0“l want the latest Mercedes convertible sports car.
Pearly white if you please.”
I bet your girls would like that as well!
Do you think you would ever get to drive it? :o)
Anyone else notice “the imports concession won by London Supply”
May 01st, 2015 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought Argentina refused to have anything to do with the UK.
So far this thread appears to be Troll free.
Don't forget the final episode of this series of an island Parish tonight on BBC2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006t6m6
Complete a form for customs to “decide upon” before being allowed to leave for max 90 days!
May 01st, 2015 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Creates work and bribes for someone I suppose.
rotting roadkill:
May 01st, 2015 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wish upon you an infinite supply of K-swine/perronista dogs. : )
STARVE THE TROLLS.
25,000 US dollars? Where's anybody in argieland going to get 25,000 US dollars? US$3.30 for a loaf of bread? 500 grams of cheese for US$10? A pair of jeans for US$112?
May 01st, 2015 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 06
May 01st, 2015 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Huh..?
I see at least five trolls....are you blind...?
Illustrating The Story Of The Falklands War
May 01st, 2015 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://forces.tv/88116976
This is the story of a group of Welsh Guards thrown into the unknown and the untold tales from Two Company’s advance on the mainland towards Port Stanley.
Please Read….
nice place to post...
Tomorrow is 02nd May!!!
May 01st, 2015 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tomorrow is “ARA General Belgrano” day.
Tomorrow we mark ( celebrate ) the 1st time a ship was attacked and sunk by a nuclear powered submarine.
It could be a most unifying experience. The Argentine's can celebrate that the 1st ship to be attacked and sunk by a nuclear powered submarine was their very own “ARA General Belgrano”.
We ( The British ) can celebrate that the 1st Nuclear powered submarine to ever sink a surface vessel was our very own HMS Conqueror.
We can also give thanks to Capt Bonzo for being “utterly clueless” and positioning his ships in a “wholly pathetic” anti-submarine formation.
The man deserves a special mention, for if it was not for his lack of preparation and the fact that he had not closed all the water tight doors, 347 of his might still be alive!!!
So lets here it for the ARA General Belgrano!!!! and for HMS Conqueror and for that killing officer, Capt Hector Bonzo!!
......................You don't think that the argentines will “re-enact” the sinking to mark the occasion do you???
@ 12 toooldtodieyoung
May 01st, 2015 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“You don't think that the argentines will “re-enact” the sinking to mark the occasion do you???”
No need!
Most of the subs cannot be trusted to resurface and the old rust buckets manage to sink themselves against the dock.
TDC, the joke that keeps on giving us smiles, and smiles, and smiles!
@5 Chris R,
May 01st, 2015 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Would have to draw up a roster of who drives & on which days! lol.
Either that or buy 5 cars!
@8 chronic,
Thats being hard on the poor things, NOT! LOLZ.
@12 toooldtodieyoung,
The Conqueror should have torpedoed the three of them.
That would have given them something to really whinge about.
Not nice, l know.
But malvinistas are not nice people.
@10 Fake Voice - 6 , you forgot yourself.
May 01st, 2015 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@15
May 01st, 2015 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are boring.
15
May 01st, 2015 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh good one...did you think of that all by yourself...?
I'm impressed...got anymore pearls of wisdom...?
...have you ever thought heckling professionally...?
I think you have an aptitude for it...no kidding....honestly...
@17
May 02nd, 2015 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0YOU are pedantic, and boring.
Foreign vehicles suck, terribly built. One friend but one some years ago and it stopped working after only 13.000km. And just because he had never done any oil changes to it???
May 02nd, 2015 - 01:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Pathetic design and build.
I refer you to my post in the previous item.
May 02nd, 2015 - 01:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0The cars are probably very good at taking sever bends!
Do you think they intend setting up custom posts on all the roads leading out of Santa Cruz or is there only one road to check on papers? My understanding that they are thinking of doing a similar thing in Neuquen but it is on food , and a similar thing in BA but that is toilet paper. Argentine the gift that keeps giving us a laugh. HaHaHaHa
May 02nd, 2015 - 07:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Family political stronghold”...? its more like their personal fiefdom. Don't they own most of the province?
May 02nd, 2015 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0A voice is a voice is the voice
May 02nd, 2015 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 023
May 02nd, 2015 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear...resorting to using a zero instead of an o....
Skip is right...you are boring...
Aww...what's wrong can't you copy me anymore.....;-))))
One Voice...
There's only one Voice,
One Vo....ice..
There's only one Vo..ice...
To the tune of the popular footie chant...
Voice / The Voice, et al.
May 02nd, 2015 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have a look at the film “Man on fire” starring Denzil Washington and set in Mexico.
Brilliant film about the cowards who kidnap innocent people and ransom them. The top of the criminal organization, which is full of cowards who need to go round in gangs, is a man called (can you guess it), YES, it's “The Voice”.
At the end of the film he gets double tapped to the brain. If only....
25 ChrisR
May 03rd, 2015 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0he's had one “tap” to the brain, already...
@ 9 Conqueror
May 03rd, 2015 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0“US$3.30 for a loaf of bread? 500 grams of cheese for US$10? A pair of jeans for US$112?”
You are exaggerating. I am in Argentina right now, and prices as of today (2 May 2015):
1 kg (2.2 lbs) of white bread is AR$ 22.00
One kilo loaf thus US$ 2.46 (official) / 1.74 (blue)
Half a kilo of ordinary cheese AR$ 32.50 US$ 3.64 / 2.57
(more expensive cheeses available)
A couple of week ago I bought a pair of jeans (“Gaucho”, produced in Mendoza, excellent quality, which I have bought again and again through almost 6 years) AR$ 255 = US$ 28.60 / 20.25. Imported jeans, however, are very expensive.
@27
May 03rd, 2015 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the average wage is?
27...a loaf of whole wheat bread in Mendoza costs 49+ pesos...about $5.60 US. Ridiculous.
May 03rd, 2015 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 027
May 03rd, 2015 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...”1 kg (2.2 lbs) of white bread is AR$ 22.00”
That is one heavy loaf of bread...
I just bought a loaf of Thick-Cut Sunflower and Pumpkin Seed bread from Morrisons...it is fairly heavy for bread, but only weighs 800 grams...
Was that for your guest's toast?
May 03rd, 2015 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sad
pathetic
loser
Exciting place, that new Morrisons!!
May 03rd, 2015 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7. What's more important than the actual prices of the items is the reletive prices to Arg incomes.
May 03rd, 2015 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 050% of the WORKING population makes $5500/mo
That's means white bread is .4% of their income!
If you do the reverse math it would be like us paying U$20 for the bread.
Unsustainable
Same thing happened last time Arg went into hyperinflation
Gonna happen again.
USA: 4% of the world's population, 26% of all imprisoned criminals.
May 03rd, 2015 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That telling statistic says either of two things, neither good for Yankeeboy:
a. The NorthAmoan system of Justice is pathetic, corrupt, rotten, and criminal itself for jailing so many innocent people. Worst in the world.
OR
b. The Northamoans are a bunch of CRANIMALS, who commit crimes at an appalling rate, engage in criminal acts far more often than any other nationality, and thus are the most criminally behaving people on this planet.
Either way, undisputable evidence of the sh!thole that country is.
I personally subscribe to option C: both A and B are correct! USA Justice is horrendously bad, and NorthAmoans tend to be more criminal (I mean, mass shootings is evidence enough).
Meanwhile, in the USA 92% of all accused are found guilty. That is almost 30% higher than in any other “western democracy”, and on par with, ready for it: North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, ISIS controlled-areas, and Mauritania.
HAHAHAHAHA...
So either NorthAmoan prosecutors are infallible Gods who catch the correct criminal all the time... or the NorthAmoan system is simply F---- up.
And meanwhile, in EUianland the Anti-Semitism and racial violence continues to rise alarmingly in France, but also UK, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Switzerland. Jews beaten up in the streets, blacks found dead inside cars, immigrants dying by the thousands due to EUian indifference.
These are the “paradises” Argentina is supposed to model itself after for a better future.
No thanks, I think Argentina is fine and way better than you as it is.
And remember...
Burn baby burn :)
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1789472-villa-31-ponen-semaforos-por-el-transito
May 03rd, 2015 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow progress!
Buenos Aires slums growing at an unprecedented rate
Only country in the world that has been devolving for 3 generations.
:(
Good grief, TTT, if they locked up all the people with what is considered criminal behaviour in any other country Argentina would have more people incarcerated than free. You really are foolish.
May 03rd, 2015 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did anyone else read about the Argentine trying to extort £500,000 from a British newspaper? He tried to pass off animal bones as human remains of SAS personnel from the Falklands War. Why would he make such ridiculous claims which were easily disproved? Because a group of Argentines that never even fought in the war want to claim war pensions. If they can prove the British were on the Argentine mainland they can claim they fought in the war. Lazy, cheating bastards.
@36 ElaineB.
May 04th, 2015 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0I concur.
Thank you for your post.
@19 “Foreign vehicles suck” - that's every vehicle in Argentina then.
May 04th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 27 and @ 33
May 04th, 2015 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Both of you are right; prices are (more or less) as Doggy Rap pointed, but the average salary is barely $5,000.
That´s very sad :(
#36 Elaine B
May 04th, 2015 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“...if they locked up all the people with what is considered criminal behaviour in any other country Argentina would have more people incarcerated than free...”
Now, that was such a mean thing to say, Elaine. You may criticize a government, a political party, a particular group. But what you posted is so gratuitously offensive.
You previously mentioned that you know Argentina well and go there often.
Well. I do not know where you've been in the country, but I know for a fact that the large majority of Argentines are decent, hard-working people.
You should know that most people aspire to really simple things in life: a job, a family, a home. Argentines, just as English people, Italians or Germans, are no exception. I also know my people are exceedingly nice to foreigner visitors.
There are bullies and criminals of course, but you should read and compare criminality indexes in Argentina and other countries before leisurely throwing around such baseless accusations.
Argentinians are some of the most corrupt people in the world. It is common to not get a receipt so they don't have to pay taxes. They'll even give you a discount if you do. It is common to bribe Police to get out of a ticket. I used to have to pay $20 pesos every time I got off the highway after the disco to the police on the exit to Libertador so they wouldn't waste my time searching the car just to bother me and find noting. Big Mercedes with a driver must have money so they must take it.
May 04th, 2015 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The corruption is the reason it has been sliding from 1st world to a 3rd world sh*thole and the reason it will never be anything more than a 3rd world sh*thole.
@ 40 Kiki Mashed Potato Head.
May 04th, 2015 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is all too easy to prove the number of crooks and thieves in TDC.
There are 15M Peronistas, many on the government tit or thieving in accordance with La Camping It Up orders.
However, as you don't live there you probably don't realise just what a shit-hole TDC is.
Plus I don't know one person in Argentina that hasn't been robbed.
May 04th, 2015 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Usually violently
You certainly can't leave your bags unattended or your phone on the table and expect it to be sitting there when you get back.
When I moved back to the USA my friends made fun of me because I was used to being so careful and wary of everyone when I lived in Argentina.
It is so nice to be around honest trustworthy people again.
I am happy to be in London once again. Venezuela is becoming a nightmare.
May 05th, 2015 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina could go the same way.
The writing is on the wall.
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