Buenos Aires, Dec 17 (NA) – National lawmaker for the Unidos coalition, Nicolás Massot, questioned on Wednesday what he called the government's 'double standard' for justifying cuts to pensions and national universities while giving up tax revenue by 'lowering the personal assets tax' or 'subsidizing layoffs'.
Speaking during the session in the Lower House, the Buenos Aires provincial lawmaker took a stance equidistant from 'those who unrealistically overestimate equality and those who enshrine freedom'.
'We are in a moment of exaltation of freedom that responds to an unsustainable overestimation of equality,' Massot analyzed, urging to 'find equality within freedom'.
The opposition lawmaker also criticized the repeal of the University Financing Law proposed by the government in the Budget Bill.
Massot questioned the government's claim that 'there is no money' for retirees or universities, but there is for 'lowering the personal assets tax, to facilitate a tax amnesty that would subsidize a cheap dollar, to lower taxes on imported cars', 'to reduce internal taxes on electronics' or 'to lower the corporate profits tax for a handful of companies'.
'Was there no money for retirees or to guarantee the mobility of family allowances, but yes to subsidize layoffs?' he asked.
'Why is there fiscal degradation when one asks to maintain spending, and there is no fiscal degradation when one produces exactly the same effect in the public accounts?' he inquired.
