Tax increases, anti-abortion, a dependent Central Bank and the fight against prepaid bills, are some of the President’s positions that call into question his liberal purity.
The United States Federal Reserve It moves autonomously with respect to the governments in Washington, whatever the political affiliation of the authorities, and the same occurs with the Bank of England, the European Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Central Bank of Brazil and others. These entities They set the interest rate, manage the amount of currency and analyze the functioning of the financial system independently of the governments of the moment.. This is not the case with the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, an organization completely subject to the dictates of President Javier Milei and his Minister of Economy Luis Caputo.
As soon as they took office in December, Milei and Caputo decreed freedom of prices for all companies with the exception of public services that were recovering their tariff arrears little by little, a painful escalation that has not yet concluded. However, when companies prepaid medicine They increased their monthly payments excessively and people complained loudly, the government counterattacked and ordered them to stop the increases and return part of the money received. What’s more, the attack was prosecuted. The much-vaunted freedom of prices was not respected here either.
Alberto Benegas Lynch and his father do not miss the opportunity to criticize the voluntary interruption of pregnancies, which they call “murder of innocents” and promote the repeal of the law that allows them to be carried out legally. At the same time they open any public exhibition with the recitation of their creed, which reads: “Liberalism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others,” which is also repeated as a mantra by his most successful disciple, Javier Milei. And what happens to the woman who wants to interrupt an unwanted pregnancy? Is this “life project of the other” not respected? This bitter debate has lasted for decades in our country and ended with the decriminalization of abortion, although these supposed liberals intend to reverse it.
But the most surprising thing is the intention of increase taxes by Javier Milei, some like Earnings on salaries that he himself voted to eliminate. The so-called “Bases Law” tries by all means to replace this levy. Nor does it do anything against withholdings on agricultural exports. It is curious for a libertarian that he declared on television when he was a candidate that “a liberal cuts his arm before voting to create or increase a tax.” Sergio Massa proposed repealing it and deputy Milei with his bench supported it. He is now trying to restore it as a whole in agreement with the International Monetary Fund, which is desperate to recover the exorbitant credit granted to Mauricio Macri and observes with anguish the meager foreign exchange collection of the Central Bank.
Regarding the international order, let us make it clear that what is advancing in the world is the right and not liberalism. There are far-rightists in Europe who deny the massacre of Jews during World War II, and many right-wingers in the United States support Putin’s war against Ukraine and are deeply Christian. Liberalism has nothing to do with violence, invasion of countries or state religions.
Let’s agree that Javier Milei’s libertarianism is at least confusing, mixed or heterodox, or perhaps it adapts in a chaotic way to the needs of management…
Economic and political analyst
Source: Ambito
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