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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts) Tue Sep 25, 2018, 12:28 PM Sep 2018

Maduro: We must increase taxation to "astronomical" levels

Maduro: It is necessary to increase the tax collection of the country
The president said that the necessary standards for socialism must be maintained

By EL NACIONAL WEB
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 10:15 PM | UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 22:16 PM

Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, announced on Monday the increase in the country's tax collection at "astronomical" levels.

"We were reviewing the fiscal balance, we have to improve the tax collection of the country and strengthen it, it is a vital line for the Economic Recovery Program," the president said.

Maduro indicated that the collection of the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (IVSS) should be improved. "You have to pay the debt of the State and have the private with Social Security and charge monthly to the hair," he said.

"We have to generate wealth to maintain the standards that the revolution has maintained despite the economic war," he said.

http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gobierno/maduro-hay-que-aumentar-recaudacion-tributaria-del-pais_253104

This standard of the revolution?

or this standard of the revolution?

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Maduro: We must increase taxation to "astronomical" levels (Original Post) GatoGordo Sep 2018 OP

Maybe he should have tried that before all the big taxpayers left Venezuela. DetlefK Sep 2018 #1

Socialism in action... comradebillyboy Sep 2018 #2

not generally in favor of military coups qazplm135 Sep 2018 #3

Chavez wasn't dumb GatoGordo Sep 2018 #4

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. Maybe he should have tried that before all the big taxpayers left Venezuela.

Reply to GatoGordo (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 12:46 PM

Sep 2018

How much could he possibly squeeze out of the small people?

comradebillyboy

(10,155 posts)

2. Socialism in action...

Reply to GatoGordo (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 12:52 PM

Sep 2018

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)

3. not generally in favor of military coups

Reply to GatoGordo (Original post)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 01:21 PM

Sep 2018

but you'd think at least one senior military leader would do it at this point.

I get that they are being paid off not to, but at some point, it's just too much.

They are approaching North Korea levels of poverty and gov corruption/mismanagement.

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)

4. Chavez wasn't dumb

Reply to qazplm135 (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 05:34 PM

Sep 2018

After the coup attempt of 2002, he got rid of every single General and 95% of the officers of the FANB. He then replaced them with lackeys from the PSUV, his political party. They were then "trained" in Cuba by Chavez own puppet masters, the Castros.

Also the entire infrastructure of the country is infiltrated by Cuba's G2. You don't know who to trust. Over 100 officers are currently either dead or in the Helicoide prison when they were ratted out earlier this year.

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