The president of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Poureferred to the reduction of the Personal Income Tax (personal income tax), and that of the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS), as a “prize“to the taxpayers, as he personally believes”in the society of stimuli (economic)”.
In dialogue with the Spanish media The world, the president assured that the decision was based on “a conception of those who move the country, which seems very basic, but is elementary.” And he continued: “The country is moved by those who push the car every daysuch as wage earners and entrepreneurs.
For the head of state, “an encouragement for these people” should be sought, since “the stimulus cannot be that you pay more taxes, or that if you earn a little more you will fall another strip of taxation“, as that would discourage taxpayers, but instead there should be a reward.
Lacalle Pou assured public accounts must be managed “in an austere way“, because “if it meets the essential purposes, should not spend more“. This allows for the ability to “turn around and tell society that it doesn’t have to pour so much money into the state coffers“, allowing a tax reduction.
Lacalle Pou is not sure if he will run for president again in 2029
President It is not very clear if he will return to the electoral contest for the general elections of 2029, and he commented that if the political parties “follow the evolution of the times we are living in, they should generate better candidates” than himself.
“What one should not do is let oneself be carried away by inertia or by the seduction of power, to return because yes“, because the exercise of a presidency “is a task that, if taken fully, is very sacrificed, very intense”, and “you have to want to be president“.
Along these lines, he avoided defining himself at some point on the political spectrum, since he understands that “classifying actions that respond to national realities, as well as principles, values, ideas, and pragmatism, the only thing it does is put you in an eleven-vara shirt“.
In turn, he explained that when he was a deputy he presented the first bill on the self-cultivation of marijuana, the first bill for assisted fertilization, a bill for the compulsory hospitalization of addicts, another so that the records of minors in conflict with criminal law, “what is that? You will be able to see that many are grouped in center-left and left and others in center-right and right“, he commented.
Likewise, he stressed that he did not decree a mandatory quarantine in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic due to “values, beginning, and ideology“, despite the fact that he defined the weekend between March 20 and 23, 2020 as “one of the most difficult weekends” of their lifewhere as soon as he took office, his closest acquaintances asked him “Luis, please, don’t let our children die“.
“The easy path of confinement went against what I feel and what I am, and what I think the individual is. The individual, when he has freedom, responsibility almost automatically appears as an exercise of that freedom.” That is, “there is no freedom without responsibility“, he stressed.
On his relationship with the left-wing governments of Latin Americastated that “It is indisputable that in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua there is no democracy“, and that” it is something that no one else can discuss. “And he pointed against the broad front when recalling the economic and political closeness to Chavismo during the presidencies of tabare vazquez and Jose Mujicawhich led to the creation of the Bolívar-Artigas Fund.
Source: Ambito
