Last Sunday I was cleaning the land that we bought with great effort a few years ago, with the intention of building our house, something that is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. Considering that, as slaves of the political system, it is not possible to save what is necessary.
Between the rent for those registrable assets that we have to pay to Mr. Government, contributions and licenses, labor tax, when they take from us nearly what would be five tithes, who knows for what reason.
It becomes impossible for us, unless we do not contribute at all to society, or very little, in that case and if the caste considers us its political capital, potential devoted voters, then it will give us a house at the expense of the thousands who will never be able to build one.
Every peso spent by the state is one less peso that we, who with market means, pure benefit to society, contribute to the country's well-being, will not be able to use.
The great writer and economist Milton Murray Rothbard tells us in his book "Anatomy of the State" what the state is not and what it is; here I will refer to these aspects on which we can reflect.
What the state is not.
We have been told that the state is an institution at the service of the population, a benevolent organization, sometimes inefficient, but destined to achieve the "goals of humanity," that is, higher social ends, which competes for resources with the private sector.
With modern democracies and through the apparatuses of legitimization, journalism, philosophers, economists, artists, and athletes, we are made to believe that the state "is all of us."
If the state is all of us, anyone who tries to attack it would be attacking all of us, and if it inflicts pain on us, we are doing it to ourselves, therefore, it is for our own good, since it is a voluntary act.
If the state incurs enormous public debts making the majority pay a group, such as the UPM Train or the stay of the 33 million in memory of a former terrorist, thus we are made to believe that the debt is with ourselves, and it is deserved.
Someone commented on all that could be done with the billions that they will make us pay for the train for UPM; if our politicians make them such a gift, then there is money.
The truth is that the money doesn't exist; they will make us pay with more poverty and nobody asked us.
The entity called state doesn't exist either; it is a group of organized people who try by all means to live off the work of others, a characteristic of any statist ideology, of which socialism is the first.
A government of majorities, as current democracy assumes, implies an intrinsic nonsense; the elected minority imposes its wishes on the majority that voted for them and on the rest who did not, always acting against the interests they claim to represent.
Below, I present some data, with the specific official references at the end of the publication.
32% of children under 6 years old are poor
Starting in 2024, two new ways of measuring poverty were established: a multidimensional index that yielded a value of 18.9%, and another, by income line with a basket more adjusted than the previous one; from what I could investigate, there are no measurements for previous years.
https://derechadiario.com.ar/uruguay/politica/marcelo-abdala-reelecto-pit-cnt-con-solo-418-votos
The 2017 base methodology, of the new income line, estimates total poverty for 2024 at 17.3%; the most alarming data is the 32% child poverty, while 6% of those over 65 years old are poor.
I referred to structural poverty and its causes in the article "The Lesson We Do Not See: National Industry and Structural Poverty."
The following table summarizes some of the most relevant economic indicators, comparing the year 2019 with 2024; the results are not encouraging for our near future:
