The deputy and economist Ricardo López Murphy was inclined to sign the May pact but advised
the Government to send separate laws to Congress, starting with the fiscal ones, and to stop "fighting and insulting
."
When analyzing President Javier Milei's speech before the legislative assembly, López Murphy highlighted that on Friday "Congress
acted in the most cordial and solemn way that it can act
and that seems to me to be an asset for the country."
Milei had called López Murphy a “traitor” to liberal ideas.
“If you
are fighting all the time,
the laws don't come out.
The laws come out when an agreement is reached,” said the deputy of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc.
The economist said that “Congress is not a notary office.
He did not act well when Kirchnerism had an overwhelming majority and the laws did not move one bit, that is not possible.
We have to build a majority, which in reality had been painstakingly built for the Omnibus Law
and I think we have to go in that direction, it seems to me that it is more practical to do it in different laws and simplify the treatment.”
The former Minister of Economy said that “the nation and the provinces require
fiscal reform.
Part of it was in the Omnibus Law and part was not, but I have proposed adding it in a project that has practically finished its drafting, which is to include the income (profit) tax.”
The Income Tax “was removed due to the demagogic and electoral irresponsibility of the Minister of Economy and presidential candidate Sergio Massa,” he told Dato on Dato on Radio Milenium.
“We also provided several draft laws for the conversion of all the credit balances that exist in provinces and municipalities, in order to prevent SMEs from being harmed by the withholdings made to them.
A set of initiatives that will help strengthen the fiscal balance program and make it less traumatic, more credible and more sustainable over time,” he said.
However, he warned that the economic crisis is more serious today than in 2001. “There are
four million retirees who have retired without contributions
.
When I was Minister there were six million private employees, two million public employees and four million retirees.
Now there are ten million retirees, four million public employees and five million social plans.”
“The effort that must be made to correct is an effort of several years that I believe we have to do and converge to a fiscal consolidation that gives us a reasonable, predictable horizon and that gives space to private investments and exports that “They should be the engine of growth with a lot of private and formal employment,” he added.
“We work constructively in all cases.
Pichetto and I voted on all the articles of the Omnibus law.
There is no question there.
“I prefer to act by issues, instead of a mega law that makes it so difficult to deal with some aspects,” he recalled.
On the other hand, he proposed “lowering import taxes on cell phones and exporters, bringing them to zero, and equalizing the taxes with the Tierra del Fuego regime.
With that, the country stops losing the nonsense of trying to make that silly armor in a place where it is very expensive.
“We are going to lower the prices of computers and cell phones.”
“
Clean record and single ballot
is the greatest electoral reform that can be carried out in the country,” he said when supporting Milei's idea.
“The electoral reform of a single ballot, which implies that other ballots cannot be stolen, is a revolution, otherwise an army of prosecutors must be assembled, which imposes an immense electoral cost.
It would be very healthy for us to go with a single ballot, it has been tested with very good results in Santa Fe, Córdoba and in the interior,” he noted.