Bertie Benegas Lynch: “Javier Milei has a desire to lower taxes”

As tensions grow in the bloc of deputies of Freedom Advances, Javier Milei He became directly involved in the parliamentary strategy to gain support for one of his most controversial decisions: the veto on the pension system approved in CongressThe legislator and economist referred to this decision, the current internal situation and the Government’s tax plan. Bertie Benegas Lynch.

“I think the opposition does not have the votes to reverse the veto.which would be catastrophic because it is all an irresponsible political move to affect fiscal balance,” analyzed the deputy, who was present at the summit that the President organized on Friday afternoon at the Casa Rosada, where members of the ruling bloc and the PRO began gestures to converge in a joint legislative strategy.

He also defended the current pension system, which governed by a DNU of Javier Milei sanctioned in March of this year: “In eight months of Javier Milei’s administration, retirees have positioned themselves better in real terms than they were before.”

Later, and consulted about the reduction to the Personal Property Tax In contrast to the veto on changing the pension formula, Benegas Lynch He considered that the tax pressure continues to be high for all sectors because “the rich are being massacred”“We must get away from the dogma that politicians have hammered into us to perpetuate themselves in power, that the rich are rich because the poor are poor.” “Progressive taxes end up affecting those who have the least because they become regressive,” he added.

In this regard, he assured that “Javier Milei has a desire to lower taxes, because he cannot do it now, as is the case with VAT” and that the President “wants to take the initiative to remove the restrictions, to have decent foreign trade, to lower taxes and to end inflation.” “There are problems in distributive equity, in the difference between those who contribute and those who benefit,” he said in an interview on AM 750.

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Asked about the departure of Lourdes Arrieta, Benegas Lynch He acknowledged that his departure “It causes me genuine sorrow for her to think what can go through the mind of a person who She was a deputy thanks to the fact that she was on a ballot next to a photo of Milei, because not even her dog would vote for herlike me or all of us who are deputies today thanks to Milei who transmitted to us her electoral power.”

Then, he recalled that the deputy “had been awarded the anointing for to manage the Mendoza assembly by 2025which is one of the epicenters of the liberal revolution in Argentina.” “She had absolutely everything and ends up not taking charge of a regrettable visit that everyone who was there took charge of, with different positions,” he understood and ironically said that “She almost realized that Astiz wakes her up and takes a selfie.“.

Finally, she spoke about the latest critical exchanges between the deputies. Marcela Pagano and Lilia Lemoine, both of Freedom Advances: “I think about the people and it is something I would avoid.” “I see Pagano’s background and it doesn’t seem right to me either; he had been given key commissions and he resigned,” he said.