In a context where millions of residents of Buenos Aires make extreme efforts to pay taxes, the head of Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri, has just launched a tender for 629 million pesos to renovate a field in Villa 31 of Retiro.
This way, Macri will allocate millions of pesos to a field located in an illegally settled neighborhood, where the vast majority of residents do not pay taxes, do not pay for services, and occupy public lands.
Macri's narrative
This outrageous waste strongly contrasts with the speech that Macri himself gave days ago in response to libertarian leaders posing with a chainsaw in front of the City Government headquarters.
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"The city doesn't need a chainsaw," said the head of Government with a proud tone, highlighting that the district keeps "fiscal balance." However, what good is fiscal balance if hundreds of millions are spent on completely unjustifiable works.
Villa 31, like so many other villas, is a symbol of the State's failure to enforce the law. It is a seized land, where occupation has been tolerated for decades. Instead of moving toward a serious urbanization plan with minimum regularization requirements, the City Government continues to promote the culture of illegality: housing without taxes, subsidized services, and now also a top-level field with taxpayer funds.
Meanwhile, residents of neighborhoods like Caballito, Devoto, or Recoleta pay every last cent of ABL, strive to send their children to a decent school, and see how they suffer from insecurity, Macri tells them not to use the chainsaw, but that there is money to throw away on a field in Villa 31.
El Gobierno de Jorge Macri gastará $629 millones para renovar la cancha de la Villa 31.
For the head of Government, the symbolic use of the chainsaw is "inappropriate" and "dangerous" in a city he considers balanced, modern, and orderly.
"The city doesn't need a chainsaw. When you grab the chainsaw, you can take away things like SAME, like public education that offers English from the first year," Macri stated, aiming to instill fear in the residents of Buenos Aires.
However, the reality is that everyone knows that the real chainsaw promoted by Milei's Government candidates is a chainsaw that cuts at the root of this type of unnecessary, unjust, and deeply offensive expenses for the Buenos Aires taxpayer.
