Business consultant Jose Baez Guerrero comments on Page 2 of the Listin Diario, saying “?The country pays little attention to the desperate insistence of certain officers of the government who stick a knife in the backs of the people by levying more taxes. They want the business sector to ‘sacrifice more’ or ‘contribute more’, but those sacrifices and contributions always end up coming from the pockets of those least able to make them. Also, the private sector (including the poor) already pays more taxes than ever before. The business sector accepted a tax reform in 2001 and the 1.5% advance tax on sales and the temporary exchange commission have been maintained, they backed the agreement with the IMF, have been hurt by devaluation and inflation without precedent, and endure unending blackouts. This sector did not ask the government to indebt itself up to its neck nor to buy back the power distributors; it backed the judicial trials over the banking skirmishes, but has seen how justice is not so blind. They have begged for fiscal equilibrium, and with their patience and silence they have backed the administration. But before the official fiscal voracity and the difficulties the government representatives have in transmitting confidence, anyone would ask, are businesspeople and politicians speaking two different languages?” To address the author, write to j.baez@codetel.net.do