Mario Bergara wants to increase the property tax.

The Montevideo municipal government is bankrupt due to the responsibility of successive administrations of the Frente Amplio, which has governed it since 1990.

Tabaré Vázquez took office as mayor that year, and to this day the departmental government remains in the hands of Frente Amplio, now with Bergara who has just taken office.

Gigantic deficit

The municipal government ends the period with a deficit exceeding 3.6 billion pesos, eight times more than a year earlier.

The gigantic deficit is due exclusively to wastefulness, nepotism, cronyism, and corruption that has reigned in the capital's municipality for decades.

The departmental government collects nearly 2 million dollars daily from various taxes, an enormously high figure for a department with Montevideo's characteristics.

However, the money is never enough for them.

Why is the money not enough?

The answer is very simple. The management is terrible and the money is wasted primarily on privileged salaries for its employees, which include fake overtime hours that were never worked, as was confirmed a couple of months ago.

The municipal government paid hundreds of thousands of overtime hours to employees, but these hours were not actually worked.

The employees themselves invented the overtime hours with the complicity of the municipality's political directors.

Additionally, the municipal government wastes money on unnecessary matters such as carnival, which receives several million dollars every year in different ways.

A subsidy for an alleged show that is aimed only at a left-wing audience, and that disregards the majority of Montevideo's residents.

Radical feminism with everyone's money

The Montevideo municipal government also squanders money on gender ideology and radical feminism.

They have Comuna Mujer, an office where men are discriminated against and false reports of gender violence are encouraged.

At Comuna Mujer, only female employees work, whether lawyers or administrative staff, since male employees can't work in that office, by order of the municipal authorities.

Of course, those who can go to Comuna Mujer are exclusively women, not men.

This means that with the money paid by all taxpayers, half of the population is discriminated against.

Cosse's disaster

Under Carolina Cosse's leadership, since 2020 the municipal government has also wasted money on totally unnecessary "artistic" shows, which have cost millions of dollars and have provided no benefit to the department's residents.

Shows were held with enormous expenses that were paid with taxpayers' money.

Tax increase

In recent days it became known that Mauricio Zunino, who was Cosse's acting mayor, left the position and a few days ago carried out an aerial mapping of Montevideo.

The idea is to survey real estate. This way, the intention is to raise the real value of the property to increase the property tax.

The purpose is purely and exclusively to collect. The various left-wing administrations plundered the municipal government's coffers, and as always, the only thing they can think of is to increase taxes, punishing the taxpayer.

Meanwhile, wastefulness, corruption, and favoritism continue.