Letters from the editor: Getting out of the mattress, featherweight dollars, Macri and Pro
Get out of the mattress
The mattress dollars are there and want to leave, but will they want to pay twice the price of a car in Argentina compared to Chile? A glass and aluminum window double the price in Colombia? An armchair three times the price in the US? Clothing three times the price in Spain? A kitchen cabinet more expensive than in Italy? Iron for construction twice the price in India? Etc.
Argentine mattress dollars want to have the same purchasing value as abroad, not half as much as they do now. Could it be that some business owners—along with tax, labor, and union policies—are not listening to the new winds being pushed by the government?
Rodolfo Miani
DNI 17.865.757
Feather dollars
It's true what Minister Caputo says, that the use of the dollars from the mattress is not money laundering. What the minister doesn't say is that it is indeed an externalization of assets and that it will immediately be subject to Personal Assets tax, and that sooner or later, ARCA will demand explanations for the undeclared and unpaid income taxes. The government should be more creative if it wants these "feather dollars" to be transferred to the market. For example, with a law that does not penalize and exempts the amounts externalized or the assets acquired with them from current and future taxes.
Pablo Gay
Macri and Pro
I don't share the disdainful opinion that suggests former President Macri should go into winter quarters. But I believe it's the right time for his party to dispense with well-known leaders who are ready to sell out to the highest bidder, or surrender to the lust for power, and instead incorporate into its ranks other prestigious, honest, and irreproachable leaders who currently serve in other political groups. Citizens who aspire to a republican, representative, and federal government long to find an alternative for which they can vote with hope.
Marta Acuña
DNI 4,957,970
Tierra del Fuego
The numbers don't add up for me. Unionists say 6,000 jobs will be lost, let's accept that. The government says the subsidy to Tierra del Fuego costs the national government $1 billion annually, let's also accept that. Let's assume the average annual salary of workers in Tierra del Fuego is $25,000 annually, and there are $6,000, which gives us $150 million a year. So, if taxpayers pay a subsidy equivalent to the salary of each laid-off employee, we'll save $1 billion by paying only $150 million. That is, we end up saving $850 million a year. Let's pay that amount as unemployment benefits for a maximum of two years, until they find a new job, and everyone will be happy.
Ezequiel Fraga
DNI 11.045.195
Health care
In recent years, increases in prepaid health insurance premiums have exceeded the percentage by which the income of most independent or dependent citizens is adjusted. It's human nature to cling to life, and to achieve this, we must take care of our health, prioritizing this expense over many others. I also understand that this is a service that, to function well, must be profitable, and I believe that's where the State must intervene, seeking a balance. I believe in and love freedom. I can choose which tire shop to go to when I change my car tires, but in an issue like health, a healthy intervention is needed.
Pablo Castelli
DNI 14.851.314
June 4th
In his column of May 13, Alejandro Poli Gonzalvo cites Minister Celestino Rodrigo's measures of June 4, 1975, as the end of the Argentine social contract. In reality, the history and consequences of the evil afflicting Argentina should be dated to June 4, 1943. And it was not engineer Celestino Rodrigo, but Juan Domingo Perón, a member of the senseless military coup of 1943, who carried out the rupture. By blaming engineer Rodrigo for the "Romana" (the "Romana"), we distort history. The truth is different: in the 1940s and 1950s, institutions were trampled upon, students like Aarón Salmun Feijóo were murdered, politicians, union members, and students were tortured, and people were imprisoned under the guise of "At the disposal of the Executive Branch." The destruction of educational excellence wasn't the cause of the Rodrigazo; it was Perón's suspension of Law 1420 and the implementation of religious education. It wasn't in the 1970s that Eva Perón's book The Reason for My Life was written to be read in schools. Speaking of economic plans, let's mention Miguel Miranda's or the Five-Year Plan, during which people ate black bread.
Manuel Corchon
DNI 4,511,547
Owen Crippa
Today, May 24, in Sunchales, province of Santa Fe, Argentines will witness a historic event that renews our hope and faith in our destiny as a nation. That day, the museum that will pay tribute to the war actions of Lieutenant Owen Crippa in the Falklands War will be inaugurated. Anyone can review the details of that truly epic epic, but those accounts lack the historical dimension of what Crippa accomplished in peacetime. The plane with which he accomplished the military feat of single-handedly confronting an attack on the most powerful British fleet since World War II had a commercial destiny after the end of hostilities. It was sold and expatriated. Owen searched for it, found it, bought it, brought it back to his homeland, and arranged for its final destination in his small town. That effort is the same one he put into serving the needs of war veterans in vulnerable situations. Lieutenant Owen Crippa is a war hero, but his life in service to his country also makes him a hero of peace.
Thank you, Lieutenant. Your testimony restores our hope for a homeland of brothers and sisters for which you risked your life in war, and your property, prestige, and wealth in peace.
Fernando Braconi
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