Leonel gets it right -- Joe's jaw drops

SosuaJoe

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Holy crap, I'm actually stunned.

It was reported in today's digital edition of Listin Diario that Leonel will NOT be implementing the proposed addtional :bunny: 5% tax on hotel rooms, as had previously been reported.

I have to admit, when I first heard about the 5%, I hung my head and wondered if any of Leonel's advisors actually knew anything at all about how the tourism industry works in this country. Apparently someone does. Halleluia!

I am happy to be wrong on this one.

It gets better: apparently they also won't be taxing more items in the "canasta familial" as had been feared and (you'll love this) are implementing cost control measures on government employees.

This is one of those days when I have a great deal of hope for the country.

Cheers!

Joe
 

aegap

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maybe leonel wants to run the next term?
hahaha

That wouldn't be much of a problem. His fiercest rival at the momment is a guy that lost (decisively, if I may add) to Dr. Hippolito Mejia.
 

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I am sure that all of those government employees that earn RD$125,000 plus a month are very sad about the 10% reduction.....No wonder people kill to get those jobs!!! According to my sources some of the most obscure jobs get huge salaries in dollars!! ($20,000 per month!)

HB
 

aegap

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According to my sources some of the most obscure jobs get huge salaries in dollars!! ($20,000 per month!)

How sad one has to depend on 'internal' sources in order to be able to get that type of information.
 

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Yes I think he got it right in not taxing the basic food items, not taxing tourism, knocking 25% off his own salary and curbing Government employee expense accounts etc. But I think he got it wrong in not putting up IVSS, not taxing interest on large savings accounts. If he'd done this he would have been taking more off the rich. As it is, the increased tax on fuel will effect everyone: the poor will have to pay more for food because transport costs will escalate.
 

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Yes I think he got it right in not taxing the basic food items, not taxing tourism, knocking 25% off his own salary and curbing Government employee expense accounts etc. But I think he got it wrong in not putting up IVSS, not taxing interest on large savings accounts. If he'd done this he would have been taking more off the rich. As it is, the increased tax on fuel will effect everyone: the poor will have to pay more for food because transport costs will escalate.

taxing large savings accounts will do nothing but cause cash to leave the country.
 

aegap

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and make the problem is was to solve even worst, ..kinda like the philosophical practice of calling for the taxes of the most productive sectors and people to be raised..
 

Snuffy

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Squeeze the poor as much as they will allow without an uprising. Today that is not enough and the middle class is really taking a beating also. He scaled it back because he was getting to much resistance not because he gives a damn. They are all corrupt.
 

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Squeeze the poor as much as they will allow without an uprising. Today that is not enough and the middle class is really taking a beating also. He scaled it back because he was getting to much resistance not because he gives a damn. They are all corrupt.

what ever the less productive within society are taxed, you can rest assure the most productive are taxed that amount by several factors. A self-evident fact: the overwhelming amount of that money goes to the least productive. i.e. the most productive usually pay for a private education, visits to private clinics and private doctors, buy more gas, buy their own medicine, buy more taxed goods, are the only one that buy the goods that are disproportionetly taxed the most, don't use public transportation and such heavily subsidized serveces...

I'm not advocating the most productive and/or wealthy should get an equal treatment withing the fiscal and spending policies. Descriminating against the wealthy is ok when if comes to setting fiscal and spending policies, but one does have to be careful not to fall into the "sticking it to the most productive/wealthy" mantra.

(..if often times turns around and bites you in the ass.)
 
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aegap

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Here's another self-evident fact: those most productive burden the government the least, yet they contribute to it the most.. ..the idea of having a government is, by nature, an endeavor into socialism.
 
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jsizemore

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What I do not understand is how the government barrows money to make payroll and Christmas bonuses. I understand loans for building bridges, hospitals, and harbors but to borrow money for day to day operations is a problem.
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I am sure that all of those government employees that earn RD$125,000 plus a month are very sad about the 10% reduction.....No wonder people kill to get those jobs!!! According to my sources some of the most obscure jobs get huge salaries in dollars!! ($20,000 per month!)

HB

HB, how many of these jobs are there?
 

cobraboy

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Here's another self-evident fact: those most productive burden the government the least, yet they contribute to it the most.. ..the idea of having a government is, by nature, an endeavor into socialism.
True-but some folks would make the argument the rich are buying "protection" in supporting government.
 

aegap

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a poor person needs just about as much protection as a poor person. specially given the fact that poor people are more aken to make stupid decision. e.g. ..buy that cheaper, but extremely contaminated meat ...from that unregulated plant with extremely low standards.. .that may just kill you before one is able to turn it into excrement.

..or take that medicine, for that serious condition, that actually turns out to be no more than a placebo or even detrimental.

rich people would be able to deal with no government "protection" than poor people, so even from that task of government poor people both benifit the most.
 
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