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The pensions system does not need adjustment but ordering

The institutional mechanism that most compromises the functioning of modern societies is the pension system. As they are life-long rights, decisions made in the past generate fiscal commitments in the present. Pension system’s ordering today can improve future results. (more…)

The INDEC reflects only a part of inflation

The inflation measured by the official agency does not reflect the increases repressed behind the price controls and the monetary emission contained by the Central Bank’s leliqs. The release of these containments will be very traumatic if it is not accompanied by a comprehensive reorganization of the State. (more…)

FISCAL CORRESPONDENCE INSTEAD OF TAX CO-PARTICIPATION

While some provinces file lawsuits before the Court questioning the co-participation, others warn that, if it were eliminated, they would not be able to pay the salaries of public employees. Co-participation cannot be fixed. It is necessary to adopt the rule of fiscal correspondence: the one who spends must collect tax. (more…)

PENSIONS PLUMMETED 32% IN THE LAST 6 YEARS

The macroeconomic disaster would be much worse if it were not for the fall in pension expenditure thanks to the drop in the real value of pensions caused by the high inflation. It is essential to organize the pension system instead of trying to freeze this situation by manipulating the pension indexing rule. (more…)

TAX EXEMPTION ARE A DERIVED OF THE TAX DISORDER

The national government sent to Congress a separate part of the Budget which lists tax exemptions that were not historically identified and proposes their elimination to facilitate reaching the fiscal surplus. This is another example of improvisation and opportunism in public policy management. (more…)

WAGES ARE SLUMPING AND SO ARE PRIVATE EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE

Private education and private medicine are used by middle-income households to escape the deteriorating quality of state services. However, private services are also showing deterioration. This is another reason to address actively a comprehensive improvement in the State management. (more…)

THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES LOSES 2% OF GDP PER YEAR

Co-participation impoverishes the Province of Buenos Aires because it takes away resources and also the northern provinces because it generates bad incentives to their governments. The solution is a new tax and functional coordination agreement signed by most of, not necessarily all, the provinces. (more…)

ELIMINATING OVERLAPS WILL IMPROVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Faced with a deficiency in a public agency, the prevailing reaction is to create another one to perform similar functions. Human development investment is the case, with enormous inefficiencies. The Nation must stop overlapping expenses with the provinces and their municipalities to concentrate on measuring results. (more…)

2 OUT OF 3 WORKERS ALREADY HAVE REDUCED WORKING HOURS

The possibility of reducing the legal working day to generate more employment is being discussed. Evidence shows that people already work less. Not because they do not need to work more, but because of the scarcity of jobs. It is necessary to reorganize the State and labor institutions to grow creating good jobs. (more…)

CHANGES IN INCOME TAX SHOW THAT THERE IS NO “RIFT” ON BAD IDEAS

In modern countries, income tax is a central source of State revenue. In Argentina –with the support of the right, the left, and the center– the Congress is preparing to practically eliminate it. One more proof that the problem in Argentina is not the “rift” but the lack of professionalism and demagogy. (more…)