Days before classes start, the president Javier Milei announced that they will launch “vouchers to be able to buy school supplies, as a form of support for the middle class” as well as help to pay for private schools.
“There are going to be vouchers and financing for students. Ministers (Sandra) Pettovello and (Luis) Caputo are working. We are very close to announcing that,” Milei said in statements made this morning to La Red radio.
Meanwhile, the Government extended until the end of the year the exemption enjoyed by private schools from paying employer contributionsaiming to avoid a “significant increase” in the fees paid by families, through decree 134/2024 published today in the Official Gazette.
Since 2001 and on successive occasions, private schools have been exempted by decree from employer contributions.
In December 2019, the Law of Social Solidarity and Productive Reactivation in the Framework of the Public Emergency established, among other issues, new rates for employer contributions, exempting employers who own privately managed educational establishments from paying them until the end of 2020, and empowered the Executive Branch to extend the exemption, which the previous administration did by decree in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The last extension had expired on December 31 of last year.
If it had not been extended, there would have been a “disproportionate increase in employer contributions”, which would be “even greater” outside the city and province of Buenos Aires, the recitals indicate.
The increase “would aggravate the critical context in which the institutions are immersed, having repercussions on the economy of many of the families that attend them.”
In this sense, the Government stressed, in the same terms as the 2023 extension decree, that “the increase in employer contributions will generate a significant increase in the budget items of the provinces, since the state contribution not only contributes to the payment of the salaries of curricular teachers but also the payment of employer contributions on those salaries”.
On the other hand, he pointed out that “in cases in which the educational institute does not receive a state contribution, or receives it partially, the significant increase in employer contributions will cause significant increases in the value of the fees paid by families for educational services.” and it will affect your economy.”
“It is a priority of the Government to promote an increasingly inclusive education that generates opportunities for the entire Argentine territory,” the decree concluded.
Milei charged again against Martín Llaryora from Cordoba
President Javier Milei pointed out today that the provincial governors “continue to think with the logic of the red circle”, renewing his criticism of the leaders for not wanting to adjust the deficit of their districts, and announced that in the coming days a program of assistance aimed at the middle class due to the increase in private school fees.
In an interview he gave this morning to radio La Red, Milei particularly attacked the governor of Córdoba, Martin Llaryorasaid that he does not have to apologize and affirmed that the distance from Osvaldo Giordano of Anses was due to the fact that “he is sleeping with the enemy”, in reference to the former official’s partner, Deputy Alejandra Torres, who did not support the “Bases” bill in the debate in the Chamber of Deputies.
“I don’t have to apologize for anything. I’m not in politics to solve psychological problems,” Milei said this morning, after in the last few hours Llaryora asked the president to apologize to him, just as he did with Pope Francis. during his recent tour.
When asked about the result of the treatment of the Bases bill, the president insisted that it was “a resounding triumph” since the parliamentary rejection served to “settle the chips” by “spontaneous order”, and to put in evidence who are “on the side of freedom and who are collectivists” who defend “particular interests” and “caste privileges.”
It was at that moment that he once again targeted the governors who – according to Milei – “don’t see it.”
In this framework, Milei clarified that the “Bases” bill included a fiscal chapter that allowed the provinces to have a better path in reducing their fiscal deficit, but that the provincial leaders read this gesture by the government as a sign of ” “weakness” and they bet on “snatching” two points from the GDP.
The President pointed out that while the central government had to cut a deficit of 15 points, the provinces as a whole must make the effort by 1 point and called on the jurisdictions to “stop doing benefit recitals and pay the teachers.”
In this regard, he confirmed that it is not up to the Nation to pay the Teacher Education Fund and also considered the removal of transportation subsidies.
“The governor of Córdoba complained that 20 billion were falling from the transportation subsidy. He spends 26 billion on official advertising so that people speak well of him,” he questioned.
On the path to zero deficit, he stressed that there is also no public work, which he described as a “furious theft mechanism” and gave as an example the execution of the Northern Gas Pipeline: “Let the private sector do it.”
Source: Ambito
