Budget 2206 The Sociology of Lie in politics teaches that deception is not only to hide data, but manipulate collective emotions.
On Monday, September 15, 2025, Javier Milei announced the project of Budget 2026 with the same solemnity with which a hinge extracts a rabbit from the galley. The problem is that, in this case, there is neither galley nor rabbit, only a story prepared with the mastery of the professional liar. As Kathrin Bouvot points out in The Role of Lying in Politicsthe lie is not an accident in politics, but often a cultivated skill. Milei seems to have taken note to the letter.
- The President promised increases for retirees, disabled, universities and health …
- All very moving, except for a detail, those items are incompatible with the fiscal balance that it says. This is the old Wall Street trick described by Michael Lewis in The poker of the liar: Bet strong, pretend security and wait for anyone to discover that you do not have letters in your hand.
- Milei plays the same game, but with the future of millions of Argentines as chips.
According to his speech, “the worst already happened” and the country will grow to 5% per year thanks to the surplus, or even 8% if reforms are added. If these projections were true, Argentina would be on their way to being one of the three world powers in three decades.
The irony is that, in parallel, tax revenues fall, the investment is retracted and the debt becomes more expensive. The promise of future bonanza is, in fact, an aggiornada version of the “suffer now, enjoy later” that no global or common citizen investor already believes.
The sociology of lies in politics teaches that deception is not only to hide data, but manipulate collective emotions:
- Milei resorts to a classic repertoire: the fear of the return of uncontrolled inflation, the exaltation of an alleged shared sacrifice and the threat that abandoning its program would be equivalent to “throwing the national effort to”
- In practice, it is a speech that confuses virtue with punishment, stability with recession and freedom with perpetual adjustment.
The problem is not only moral, but economic. Credibility is a central asset in public finances. When the presidential word erodes, markets do not buy bonds, they buy dollars and citizens do not agree to pay the cost of adjustment. If everything is a bluffthe risk is not less, losing political control and seeing the mandate collapsed long before 2027.
In the end, Milei giving the helm to Caputo, converts politics into a casino where the lie is the rule and the truth is the exception. As in him Poquer of the liarit’s about holding the bet until someone shouts “I doubt”. That moment is approaching; Industrialists do not produce, merchants do not sell, retirees who do not see improvements, workers who lose income, investors who do not invest, and Voters who no longer believe. The 2026 budget is not a government plan, it is the last lantern of a player on the edge of the abyss.
*Doctor of Political Science, on YouTube: @DRPABLigani, in X: @Pabitigani
Source: Ambito
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