The
Buenos Aires Justicialist Party
reacted this Sunday to the request made days ago by President
Javier Milei
and the deputy recently added to the La Libertad Avanza bloc,
José Luis Espert,
not to pay taxes in the Province of Buenos Aires in the face of the increase decreed by the governor Axel Kicillof.
Regarding the
fiscal rebellion
proposed by the ruling party, provincial Peronism maintained that it is a
“very serious and irresponsible” measure.
Through a statement, the Buenos Aires PJ headed by the Camporista deputy
Máximo Kirchner
, reviewed the statements of Milei and Espert, who also chairs the Budget and Finance Commission of the Lower House, about not paying taxes such as patents, residential real estate and rural real estate.
“
The attitude of the President of the Nation and the deputy of the province of Buenos Aires who chairs the Budget and Finance Commission of Congress is very serious and irresponsible,” they maintained in the text and added that they are
“
openly calling for a fiscal rebellion in the province".
They stated in turn that "the seriousness of the statements of the person who presides over one of the most important commissions of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation is only surpassed by the
validation of the President of the Nation himself, Javier Milei
."
On this point, they recalled that the President “not only shared Espert's statements on social networks, but in a radio interview he considered that the increase in the tax is 'expropriatory and a violation of property rights.'”
In an interview given to
Radio Miter
on Saturday,
Milei defended Espert's call for a tax rebellion
to not pay more taxes in the Province of Buenos Aires.
"Absolutely, what Professor Espert said is right," said Milei, who added that the tax increase ordered by Axel Kicillof is
"confiscatory."
— • Statement from the PJ of the province of Buenos Aires pic.twitter.com/PuVruE77zD
— PJ Province of Buenos Aires (@BonaerensePJ) March 17, 2024
Along the same lines, the President added: "It is a violation of property rights, and
what Kicillof is doing is expropriatory.
It is crazy, it is putting, for example, the agricultural sector of the Province of Buenos Aires on the brink of bankruptcy. Aires".
The provincial PJ in turn stressed that the request not to pay taxes happens "while the governor of the province,
Axel Kicillof,
collaborates with the province of Santa Fe in the fight against drug trafficking, sending patrol officers and personnel as the own Minister of Security,
Patricia Bullrich
.”
And they added that the
“irresponsible statements”
also occur “in a context where
the tax policy of the province of Buenos Aires is conditioned
by the subtraction of a sharing point, elimination of the Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID) and fundamentally by the decisions of the president in the macroeconomy.
Finally, they asked themselves: “What are the president of the Nation and the President of the Budget and Finance Commission looking for?
What they are urging us to do is extremely serious.”
“Wado” De Pedro: “Milei seeks to destabilize Kicillof”
For their part, the Peronist senators for the Province of Buenos Aires, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro and Juliana Di Tullio,
also spoke
.
The former Minister of the Interior accused Milei of seeking to “destabilize” Kicillof with his call not to pay taxes in that district.
“While increasing taxes and fees, @JMilei promotes a tax rebellion in the province of Buenos Aires.
An irresponsible, undemocratic action and of enormous institutional gravity
,” De Pedro wrote in his X account.
While increasing taxes and fees, @JMilei promotes a tax rebellion in the province of Buenos Aires.
An irresponsible, undemocratic action of enormous institutional gravity.
He seeks to destabilize @Kicillofok, but the consequences will fall on the people of Buenos Aires.
— Wado de Pedro 🇦🇷 (@wadodecorrido) March 17, 2024
He argued that the initiative proposed by the President so that citizens do not pay taxes
“seeks to destabilize @Kicillofok”
but considered that the consequences “will fall on the people of Buenos Aires.”
For his part, Di Tullio wondered if the President
"is always going to get on with the people of Buenos Aires"
and urged them to leave "in peace" and respect "the people who generate more wealth for the nation and who receive less." Per inhabitant".
“His institutional responsibility prevents him from being ungrateful, rude and autocratic,” he highlighted.
President;
Is she always going to get on with the people of Buenos Aires?
Leave alone and respect the people who generate more wealth for the nation and who receive less per inhabitant.
His institutional responsibility prevents him from being ungrateful, rude and autocratic.
— Juliana di Tullio (@ditulliojuli) March 16, 2024
In turn, the ultra-Kirchner senator said that
the campaign promise that Milei had made about not increasing taxes was
“ridiculous” because it increased the COUNTRY tax from 7.5% to 17.5%.
“I suggest you don't make promises you can't keep.
Luckily his arms are still in place.
Avoid self-harm,” she said ironically and quoting Milei's sayings from 2021 where he stated that before increasing taxes she preferred to cut off her arm.