The administration of the recently elected President of Argentina Javier Milei plans to cut 5,000 government jobs. Milei will simply refuse to renew the contracts for the employees, all of whom were hired in 2023.
In addition, his administration will be reviewing all contracts for government employees who were hired prior to 2023 with the intent to make further cuts. Their move to fire 2023 hires is assumed to be a retaliatory move against the practice of padding the government by the outgoing administration.
In one example of the program cuts, Milei said they discovered 121 registered cars and 242 hired drivers on the government books of the General Secretariat of the Presidency. “We’re throwing it all out,” he said (“Afuera!”).
“Checking the books we came across 121 cars and 242 drivers in the General Secretariat of the Presidency. We’re throwing it all out.”
¡AFUERA!pic.twitter.com/oELGp6pp6b
— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) December 27, 2023
Milei, an outspoken libertarian and adherent to the philosophy of anarcho-capitalism, believes that taxation is equivalent to theft and that governments in the main profit off the exploitation of wealth-producing citizens. His corrective to this is to have a lean government that exists to ensure the security of society and its laws so that people can pursue commerce in peace.
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His planned reforms include the dollarization of the Argentine peso and implementing a period of austerity in which the economy is weaned off the welfare state. Milei also intends to privatize much of the state-run industries to stimulate economic growth and investment. Some 300 actions to privatize and deregulate have already been announced. “The goal is (to) start on the road to rebuilding our country, return freedom and autonomy to individuals and start to transform the enormous amount of regulations that have blocked, stalled and stopped economic growth,” he said.
Government spending and currency printing have run extraordinarily high under the social democratic administrations that have ruled Argentina for the majority of recent decades (they won 9 out of the 11 presidential elections since 1946 in which they have been allowed to participate). Argentina’s inflation is projected to reach 200 percent by the end of 2023. As of 2020, about 55 percent of Argentine workers were employed by the government.
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