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Related: About this forumFirst Year of Javier Milei's Economic "Miracle": Plunging Inflation, Surging Poverty, Rising Inequality and Slumping Ind
First Year of Javier Mileis Economic Miracle: Plunging Inflation, Surging Poverty, Rising Inequality and Slumping IndustryPosted on December 13, 2024 by Nick Corbishley
The deep chainsaw is coming in the second year.
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After a year in power, Argentinas faux libertarian President Javier Milei may not have burnt down the countrys central bank or dollarised Argentinas economy, as he repeatedly promised he would do on the campaign trail. Nor did he get rid of taxes; in fact they went up sharply. But he has kept his word on one of his main pledges by unleashing the figurative motosierra (chainsaw) on government spending. And support for his government is still strong.
Despite having implemented the largest financial adjustment in Argentina in over 60 years, with excruciating effects for many of the countrys most vulnerable sectors, Mileis approval numbers are, bizarrely, the best in the first year of any president since 2001. As the Argentine journalist Ernesto Tenembaum writes, something very profound has happened in Argentinas society for this to be happening.
Milei has promised more of the same for the year ahead. The deep chainsaw is coming, he warned during a celebration of his first year in office. This new chainsaw, he said, will be all about dismantling geological layers of statism through the elimination of public agencies, secretaries and undersecretaries.
The Biggest Budget Adjustment in Human History
In one year, Javier Milei has abolished half of Argentinas existing ministries, fired 33,000 civil servants and slashed public spending by 35% compared to the previous year. To achieve what he likes to describe as the biggest budget adjustment in human history, the Argentine president has cut pensions, social benefits, public sector salaries, and transportation and energy subsidies. He has also suspended all public works and minimized transfers of resources to the provinces.
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First Year of Javier Milei's Economic "Miracle": Plunging Inflation, Surging Poverty, Rising Inequality and Slumping Ind (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Dec 13
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Callie1979
(264 posts)1. Well if public support is still strong, then have at it.
See if they feel the same way next year.
Cutting hurts.
UpInArms
(51,903 posts)2. Little Lindsay compares TFG to Milei
With great excitement