The Morenoist Congress of Sinaloa, self-appointed historical reformer, is nothing more than a clique of adventurers incapable of updating ideas and diagnosing problems to outline new public policies. Under the pretext of favoring the poor, huge nonsense is committed. What is the use of having experienced leaders like Feliciano Castro? He went from being a fierce opponent to a meek shepherd.
The resistance of the lopezobradoristas to update the municipal property income for 2022 to the level of inflation, which in 2021 exceeded 7 percent, directly punishes the finances of the councils and their abilities to solve multiple problems of public services. Likewise, it takes away their advantages to capture additional income through fiscal collaboration agreements with the federation, which, with higher property and water collection, obtain extraordinary benefits.
Municipal President Jesús Estrada Ferreiro is right to disagree with the refusal of his coreligionists in the Chamber of Deputies and promote a constitutional controversy to update the property tax according to inflation.
Not raising it openly favors those who have more, because the poor, as Estrada says, would not pay more than 50 or 100 pesos a year. In addition to being timid and conniving so as not to be criticized, some deputies have conflicts of interest, since they are inveterate debtors of this tax, such as Serapio Vargas Ramírez and Luis Javier de la Rocha. And yet, being balconyed, they acted offended. It would be necessary to see if other legislators and aldermen walk in the same.
It is about educating the population that every right deserves obligations. Universal scholarships have been established for older adults that are also intended not to pay property taxes. But not everyone is needy. Do you think that retirees from the SNTE, the IMSS, the UAS cannot pay property taxes?
Many of them have a welfare pension in addition to double retirement. We must not forget either that it is a tax that has as its counterpart a revaluation of the root assets of the families that must be responsible for preserving it.
Even in the most difficult times, our mother, a widow with 13 children, sacrificed any expense in order to pay her taxes on time, which meant keeping her house in order.
When it is said, “that for the good of all, the poor first”, we have to start from a realistic vision of what it means to be poor in the 21st century, since that category was coined at the time of the industrial revolution and has no meaning. much to do with the present. The concept of poor does not mean inability to pay for water services and property tax, except in extraordinary cases that can resort to aid.
The ignorance of our so-called reformers is found in many spaces of Morenoite power. The debut of the Secretary General of the Government, Enrique Inzunza, at the weekly conference on Monday, January 17, showed us a person without political culture and an inability to engage in fluid and realistic dialogue. Faced with each question from the communicators, he would abstract in a soliloquy like a preschool teacher of introduction to the study of law, avoiding giving concrete answers. They are not only questions of form, but of content. He wanted to sell the idea that the dismissal of the “ears” of the government means an advance in respect for human rights, because no one is spied on anymore. Not even his little nephews believe that. It is clear that, in the digital age, of video cameras, drones, spy satellites, invasive predatory software, the physical presence of government agents becomes obsolete. Strategic information will continue to be required and collected. It would be nice to know how they will do it.
It’s sad, but an outdated generation came to power, and compared to the neoliberals they criticize so much, they see themselves as small.
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