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Well if you believe that I think you should check it out first hand. You know what a doctor's salary is in Cuba? Its about $20 a month. Since its a workers paradise the state provides everything else. If an immigration is a vote on where people prefer to live (or a perception of the best place...

I've been in Oklahoma, and by the way the current unemployment rate is only 5.5%, and most people are working at jobs a lot better than minimum wage. Your statements are silly as you have never seen real poverty and the many related problems that exist in Latin America including Argentina. In...

I think its ridiculous to compare living standards between the U.S. and Argentina. Perhaps you are living in the cloistered environment of expat-world in B.A., you need to get out and see how the real Argentinians live. Healthcare is quite good in the U.S. it just costs too much. Are you...

Your in Oklahoma right, you should spend some time in Argentina or any country in Latin America, then you will see how good you've got it and will realize how silly your statements are.

If you don't like the Nokia example there are plenty of others. To be really successful any industry in Argentina has to competitive in world markets. Setting up trade restrictions to keep competing products out you will end up with bloated industries making bad products at inflated prices.

I think we are more or less in agreement. The track record for a small country like Argentina is not good with ISI. The problem with the whole process is that it ignores the real world and usually just props up some local industry that's inefficient. The best way for QA to be accomplished is...

I think the key is make local products competitive in the world market. When you protect local industry usually all you get is crappy products and high prices. You can look at small countries that do quite well in some areas, like Nokia in Finland. They didn't build Nokia by banning the...

If ISI worked the countries in Latin America should be industrial powerhouses by now as most have tried it one or more times over the decades.

Sure you can get good food in B.A. but it's the exception. It has remarkably few good restaurants for a city of 8 million. Maybe people can come up with 10 to 20 eateries that are decent, this is enough for me, I can avoid the rest.

Additionally the main problem with these kinds of trade restrictions(and they have been tried repeatably in many countries) is that they just don't work and usually end up harming the people they are intended to help. For most companies Argentina is just too small of a market and they will...

Good points, all of this is needed education, infrastructure, training. Why doesn't it happen? Maybe these are things that take time to show results. Maybe the politicians are more focused immediate handouts to secure support today to win the next election. If you actually fixed the problems...

That's the mistake you are making looking at sustainability from only a few years of performance. You really have to look at these things over a longer period. You can't really call the Kirchner economic policies a success or failure until they have had their full run. However, I think the vast...

Actually the Worldbank and IMF use the numbers provided by the Kirchner's Indec organization. Does it mean they think believe they are correct? I doubt it, in fact the IMF footnotes the Kirchner's numbers basically saying private estimates differ. Argentina is the only country they footnote, the...

This year spending is up 40% from a year ago, even allowing for inflation this appears out of control. Do you think 40% year over year spending increases with 25% inflation is sustainable? At what point do tax revenues fail to keep up? Seems just a matter of time to me before this unravels.

None of the above, but I don't see how people can claim this government is a brilliant success when mainly all they have done is jacked up government spending to a very high and unsustainable levels, the government benefiting from high taxes on record commodity prices. Has anything really been...

Not a very good article in my opinion, more or less ignores a lot of the bad stuff that's gone on in Argentina and doesn't really discuss the sustainability of the economic model. The best thing the world could gain from Argentina's experience is how not to run a country.

Yes it could be done, in fact I know someone who does something similar, she works as an interpreter. She has a U.S. phone number but lives in South America. She uses Vonage a VOIP box, not sure if this is available in Canada but I'm sure there's an equivalent. It would work as long as the...

Not to burst your bubble but getting job in Argentina is tough, tougher yet is getting one that pays enough to actually live on. Try imagining living in Canada on $1000-$1500 a month and you will have a pretty good idea of what awaits even if you are lucky and do get a job. If you think I'm...

Your are correct but I don't see where you asked that. My point is he hasn't provided enough information for me or anybody else to determine the correct response to the main question, does he owe tax on the sale of the property. In short if he meets the rules he doesn't owe anything, this is...

I don't think enough information has been provided for an answer. If it's his principal residence and he meets all the rules capital gains doesn't even come into play.