Terribly scammed: the left does it again

The Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Economy of Frente Amplio, Martín Vallcorba, admitted that the 2025-2030 Programmatic Bases are "unpayable" and caused deep disappointment among hopeful leftists.

According to a recent statement by the Minister of Economy, Gabriel Oddone, the five-year Budget Law was built considering the 63 restricted Priorities for Governing, presented in Colonia, and not based on the inclusive and extensive Programmatic Bases for which progressives campaigned for months.

Frente Amplio supporters, easy prey for deception, were sold a bill of goods and are now furious. However, Vallcorba, bursting their collective dream of public happiness, offered them a unique opportunity to finally reach maturity.

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The utopian program that dragged them to the polls

In contrast, for those with common sense, it is not surprising that the progressive pamphlet can't be implemented: it is full of delusional proposals:

• Creation of a Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
• Greater status for the Ministry of Education and Culture: it will be renamed Ministry of Cultures, Arts, Heritage, and Education.
• Granting the National Institute for Women a higher hierarchical rank.
• Creation of the University of Education.
• Implementation of the National Institute for Accreditation and Evaluation of Tertiary Education.
• Investing 6% of GDP in education plus 1% in research and development.
• Strengthening municipalities and local governments, increasing budgetary demands.
• Social rental policy: creating a regulated system with state subsidies.

  

• Advancing the transformation of the tax system, strengthening taxation on income, large capital, and wealth.
• Personalized VAT, distribution of income and wealth based on criteria of equity and social justice.
• Reduction of the workweek to 40 hours without salary reduction.
• Guaranteeing a basic subsistence income for women and minorities living in poverty.
• Effective access to voluntary termination of pregnancy throughout the national territory.
• Universal access to mental health care with a gender perspective.
• Strengthening the National Gender Council as an inter-institutional coordination body.
• More police stations specialized in domestic violence.
• Advancing toward universal coverage of care services.
• Economic development programs for rural women.
• Promoting political training programs for Afro-Uruguayan women and minorities.

  

• Creation of the National Law of Culture and Cultural Rights.
• Urgently ratifying ILO Convention 169.
• Reaffirming the role of the National Colonization Institute; national development plan with access to land and credit.
• Antel TV: national streaming platform.
• Promoting a National Space Policy.

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The combination of these progressive aspirations —and many more—, together with the elimination of the new fiscal rule that removes the spending cap —because that restriction, according to Oddone, has a political and ideological component that the government doesn't share—, places Uruguay in a scenario disgustingly similar to Argentina in 2019.

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