With all the latest news about restructuring the government and the need to acquire more funds and a host of other things the ruling party wishes to do and as this hasn’t been addressed on the board I thought I would start this up.
As DR1 is such a well read site it is unfortunate that the makers of laws here don’t read it. The advice of this board is so vast and as so many of its members are in fact Dominicans living here and abroad that good policy direction could be proposed and debated and hopefully implemented.
The major thing to me that the PLD has failed to openly state is that they wish to do away with the cronyism that is rampant throughout the government. The fact that people like Señor Miguel Cocco and police chief Bernardo Santana Páez have been firing a lot of their corrupt workers lately gives hope that the DR is on the right track. The National Planning Office (Onaplan) director Guarocuya Felix with his proposed reform is interesting but it needs the backing of the government to become effective.
With the limited research that I have conducted I have found a couple of areas that would generate a substantial savings in money spent by the government if they were serious about making this a better country.
The Dominican Municipal League (LMD) is a prime example of an organization that needs to be abolished. LMD spokesperson Victor Gulias, states that salaries of RD$948 million 970 thousand is paid through the league’s treasury office, 1 . Using these figures and as per Law 166-03 which states that these figures represents 25% of the total funds given to the towns would mean that the federal government supplies approximately RD$ 2,846,910,000 monthly to the 151 municipalities or RD$18,853,708 each on average. The government has the capability to disperse funds directly to the municipalities without going through the LMD.
The fact that the LMD is involved in a wide range of wrong doings is very evident. 3. The employment of bogus workers on the payrolls is a thief from the Dominican people and when those bogus workers are assigned to high paying positions then the thief is substantial. 4, 5, 6, 7.
Another example of waste in non-producing employment is within the agro sector. The difference between that sector and that of Chile should serve as a good example of cronyism gone wild.
The Dominican Customs Agency (DGA) always seems to be working hard to bring in that money which people try to steal from the populace by not paying taxes. A quick search shows tax dodging to the tune of at least 300 million in May and June of 2006. The income from this agency for the first quarter of 2006, not counting the ones that got away or the ones they caught, is here.
Are there other ways to save or generate monies on this island without taxing the people into the poor house?
Rick
As DR1 is such a well read site it is unfortunate that the makers of laws here don’t read it. The advice of this board is so vast and as so many of its members are in fact Dominicans living here and abroad that good policy direction could be proposed and debated and hopefully implemented.
The major thing to me that the PLD has failed to openly state is that they wish to do away with the cronyism that is rampant throughout the government. The fact that people like Señor Miguel Cocco and police chief Bernardo Santana Páez have been firing a lot of their corrupt workers lately gives hope that the DR is on the right track. The National Planning Office (Onaplan) director Guarocuya Felix with his proposed reform is interesting but it needs the backing of the government to become effective.
With the limited research that I have conducted I have found a couple of areas that would generate a substantial savings in money spent by the government if they were serious about making this a better country.
The Dominican Municipal League (LMD) is a prime example of an organization that needs to be abolished. LMD spokesperson Victor Gulias, states that salaries of RD$948 million 970 thousand is paid through the league’s treasury office, 1 . Using these figures and as per Law 166-03 which states that these figures represents 25% of the total funds given to the towns would mean that the federal government supplies approximately RD$ 2,846,910,000 monthly to the 151 municipalities or RD$18,853,708 each on average. The government has the capability to disperse funds directly to the municipalities without going through the LMD.
The fact that the LMD is involved in a wide range of wrong doings is very evident. 3. The employment of bogus workers on the payrolls is a thief from the Dominican people and when those bogus workers are assigned to high paying positions then the thief is substantial. 4, 5, 6, 7.
Another example of waste in non-producing employment is within the agro sector. The difference between that sector and that of Chile should serve as a good example of cronyism gone wild.
The Dominican Customs Agency (DGA) always seems to be working hard to bring in that money which people try to steal from the populace by not paying taxes. A quick search shows tax dodging to the tune of at least 300 million in May and June of 2006. The income from this agency for the first quarter of 2006, not counting the ones that got away or the ones they caught, is here.
Are there other ways to save or generate monies on this island without taxing the people into the poor house?
Rick
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