The Canarian mayor and Frente Amplista candidate assured that Delgado’s statements about not raising taxes are “dangerous populist artillery.” “I already heard that in the last campaign,” he said.
The mayor of cannelloni and main candidate of the Wide Front for the presidency of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, responded to comments about taxes from someone who is emerging as his competitor in the elections, the Secretary of the Presidency Alvaro Delgado; and accused him of “underestimating people’s intelligence.”
He tax debate in general, and the tax issue in particular, is gaining strength in the electoral debate that has just begun. In that sense, Orsi was consulted for the statement of Slim that, in an eventual nationalist government that has him as leader, he will not raise taxes during the entire mandate.
“I already heard that in the last campaign,” said the Canarian mayor, in reference to one of the promises that the current president Luis Lacalle Pou made during his electoral campaign in 2019. “I do not doubt the honesty of the Secretary of the Presidency, but it seems to me that at this point to continue using such complicated tools is underestimate people“, considered.
Besides, Orsi qualified the words Slim as “dangerous populist artillery”. “The current president said that he was not going to even raise the rates knowing that you cannot solve this five years before, do you know what the world situation is like?”no one wants to raise taxes and there is no need to raise taxes because this country is already there, and the tax reform The FA made it in 2007, so the tax issue is already there, now what is raising or not raising taxes? Which of the taxes?”
“I would even prohibit talking about those things because it also forces you to say ‘and are you going to go up?’ No, me neither, I’m going to lower them all, I’ll lower everything in half,’” Orsi continued, regarding the possibility of making that type of election campaign ads. “Is that credible? Is it serious? Or am I a fortune teller or am I a irresponsible. Because the economy has its ups and downs,” he noted.
Finally, the Frente Amplio candidate considered that “no one wants to raise taxes, the issue is Who do you upload it to and who do you download it to?. The Uruguayan tax system is already solid. Now the world is going to force us to do some things, we have to take that into account.”
Delgado’s statements: “I am not going to raise taxes”
Orsi’s comments came in response to claims by Alvaro Delgado to Azul FM that, during his eventual government, he will not raise taxes. “I have to be clear about that,” he said.
These statements, in turn, were in response to previous statements by the mayor of Canelones that he could not yet rule on a possible tax increase, although he stressed that, in any case, this “has to be the last of the measures.” “I’m not saying ‘I neither rule out nor affirm.’ I’m not going to raise taxes. Any correction goes on the side of the public spending, not because of the tax increase,” added the Secretary of the Presidency who, tomorrow, will complete his last day in office before resigning to dedicate himself to the campaign.
“We have to be clear and in a government headed by Alvaro Delgado There will be no tax increase,” the leader reaffirmed.
Source: Ambito
