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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

More than half of Argentina's 46 million people are now living in poverty, new figures indicate, in a blow to right-wing President Javier Milei's efforts to turn around the country's beleaguered economy.

The poverty figure for the first six months of this year was 52.9%, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, said the country's Indec statistics agency.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqn751x19no

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

And poverty in Argentina is something like $2.55US a day.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

I think we all agree that if you're willing to fuck over large portions of the general public, like he did down there in Argentina, you can probably cut some costs. That approach comes with some risks, because the general public might not like it when you show them how you actually feel, and of course it would make you a terrible human being and disastrous leader.

And hey, having a simpler tax system always sounds good, and in many cases it probably would be good, but there's a limit to the simplicity because people will find ways to game the system, and when they do so, either you shrug your shoulders or you make your tax laws more complex to deal with it.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Four for the middle class, two for the lower class, and one for the upper class who don't pay their accountants* enough.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Sounds like the Lord of the Rings

[-] pikmeir@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Tax was made.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

One class to serve them all, laws and cops to bind them.

One class to rule them all, and raw greed to blind them.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

6 is the highest number after all.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I rate this tax system a 5/7, perfect score

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Ronnie Dobs wants to speak to you. He's mad at you for getting to this before I could. "Speak English mother fucker!"

[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Just 6? Surely Argentina's already broken economy can not survive with so little tax revenue sources? I'm no economist but the only way I can see this even remotely working is if the rates of those 6 taxes are raised expectionally high.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He says he wants to reduce the number of taxes but not the revenue.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Why is that fucker still breathing?

That's still too many. Just Tax Land!

this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
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