The General Rural Society Guido (SRGG) has issued a harsh statement rejecting the new tax that the local mayor, Carlos Rocha (Unión por la Patria), intends to impose on agricultural producers for the maintenance of public spaces.
This unusual tax, included in the 2024 Budget presented last week in the Deliberative Council, costs would be charged for issuing livestock guides that producers already payS. A budget which, according to ruralists, provides for increases higher than national inflation and the addition of new taxes. “Once again the sector must endure the parasitism of a State that does not shrink, that does not adapt,” the producers said.
“It is not up to us farmers to pay for this service, nor is it up to the famous Cultural Fund.Because the countryside must pay for Pueblo celebrations and for the arrangement of public spaces“When don’t they fix our roads?”, fired the SRGG.
“We have never been called to work, analyze or agree on municipal tariffs or taxes that concern us directly, we have always maintained our position of dialogue and collaboration, as we have also expressed our way of thinking, however we have once again been ignored “, the producers criticized.
General Guido’s economy depends fundamentally on agricultural production. “Our sector suffered three years of brutal drought, where the municipal and provincial state were absent to mitigate its effects, measures were never adopted that collaborated with producers, that helped them not to lose the only thing they have in most cases. “, they say complained by the rural entity.
Furthermore, they underlined that “the proceeds do not return to the countryside” and that rural roads remain the same as four years ago. “There is a lack of hills, a lack of sewers, a lack of roads, a lack of machinery, there are swamps on the hills, and that is where we must connect with the cities, it is where not only does production go out, the sick go out, the children go to schools, the teachers and law enforcement,” says the SRGG.
The body assured that the sector will comply with the obligations imposed, because they have no legal alternatives to refuse but will try to avoid it through protective action. In any case, they meanwhile expressed: “I hope that the State will also respect its obligations, even if this seems like a waste of optimism on our part.”
Source: Clarin
