For the Chamber of Commerce, the price freeze is a recipe that never worked

For the Chamber of Commerce, the price freeze is a recipe that never worked

Grinman clarified: “It is not a problem of this administration, it is a problem of all the rulers of not making the structural changes that the country requires and that we know are painful, very painful.”

“I’m going to give a practical example: you have an income of $ 20,000 at home and you spend $ 25,000. At some point you are going to have to tell your wife and children that we have to eat polenta, the clothes have to be darned because they cannot be bought. And that is the same thing that happens to Argentina, “he added in radio statements.

According to the business leader, “in no government that happened in Argentina in the last 90 years, except for the intention of (Carlos) Menem with (Domingo) Cavallo with convertibility, which is another issue, there was never an anti-inflationary plan.”

“That is why Argentina continues to be the fly in the soup of the region because Chile solved it, Uruguay solved it, Paraguay solved it. I’m not talking about Norway or Sweden, I’m talking about our sister countries,” he added.

Then he made a curious comparison: “The Roman emperor was the first to implement price controls and there began the process of destruction of the Roman Empire.”

“And in Argentina we have tried it in 1972, then in 1973 and 1974, then Alfonsín in 1985; I think there was something of that in 2006, also with Moreno in 2010-2013 and Macri did it too”“He pointed out.

Grinman, on the other hand, acknowledged that businessmen “dialogue a lot” with the Government, but considered that this “does not mean that they listen to us and put into practice the things that we suggest.”

“I’ll be frank, Macri never received the Argentine Chamber of Commerce, instead we were with President Alberto Fernández a lot of times”, acknowledged.

According to him, the only thing that has grown in the country is poverty, and to combat this tremendous scourge it is necessary to generate wealth. “We know how to generate it from the private sector: with new companies, creating sources of work. Because the State cannot continue to take on personnel because it is a poor-quality job that also suffers the State’s finances and increases the fiscal deficit,” he continued.

In addition, the businessman pointed out: “At some point we have to realize that what we are paying for rates are not real prices, that what we are paying for transportation are not real prices. So you cannot live on subsidies,” he said. the Pope. Let us understand that if we want to transform ourselves into a normal country, we must make structural changes that are painful. “

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