Inflation

[mcaffa]

as a non citizen, you don't really have a vote or a say in what goes on here politically

I pay taxes here so I do feel that I have the right to voice my opinion.

Edit: I should have said that I pay income taxes here. Money from my paycheck goes to the government. I have the right to speak up.

 

[AlexfromLA]

I pay taxes here so I do feel that I have the right to voice my opinion.

Everybody pays taxes here.

And no one said you didn't have the right to voice your opinion. But other than voicing it, you really have no other option but to deal with inflation or leave. Am I not correct or is there something that I am missing ? I am being serious here.

Personally if Argentina became too expensive for me, I would leave. Or do you see some other solution to peoples personal financial problems ? Because that is what it is. A personal financial problem.

 

[ghost]

21% IVA is pretty damn close to paying taxes. That combined with the ridiculous income tax here makes one wonder about where the revenue is being reinvested.

 

[mcaffa]

21% IVA is pretty damn close to paying taxes.

Very true!

 

[nikad]

21% IVA is pretty damn close to paying taxes. That combined with the ridiculous income tax here makes one wonder about where the revenue is being reinvested.

Easy answer: KK´s 5 start hotels and properties, 700% increase of their assets, etc, duuuuh

 

[steveinbsas]

Easy answer: KK´s 5 start hotels and properties, 700% increase of their assets, etc, duuuuh

From another thread:

What are you trying to insinuate ? If you have proof of some wrongdoing please share it.

 

[ghost]

From another thread:

It appears as though the KKs have a refined definition of "redistribution of wealth"
Frankly I think those hotels are only the tip of a Swiss iceberg. Hmmmmm?

 

[AlexfromLA]

Easy answer: KK´s 5 start hotels and properties, 700% increase of their assets, etc, duuuuh

 

[nikad]

I do not love them for sure! but proof is all over the place, local and international newspapers, and the most important: you see how poverty grows everyday and how they tip the poor to get them to vote for them.. ackkk, I think I need a seltzer now...

 

[Ries]

You said that inflation was high currently in the US and that is very missleading and wrong. It is dead flat on the curve. Even gas prices are low for summer.

While it is nowhere near as steep as in Argentina, inflation is very real in the USA.

The "official sources" that tell you prices are "dead flat" are,no doubt, the same ones that Christina uses to tell you that its only 5% in Argentina.

I am not an expat- I am a yo-yo, who maintains homes in both countries, and so I am VERY familiar with today's prices in the USA, and anybody who tells you there is no inflation here is blowing smoke in your face.

My health insurance for my family went up $200 a month this year.
It went up $100 a month last year.
My car insurance is up, my flood insurance is up, my homeowners is up.

Gas is at $3.20 a gallon where I live, UP, not down, from earlier in the year.

Most food prices have gone up 10% or more in the last year- how this doesnt register on the federal inflation charts, I dont know, but its true.
For instance, 2 years ago, I was getting fresh, free run chicken eggs from multiple neighbors for a buck and a half a dozen. Now its 3 bucks- 100% inflation in about 2 years, and most of the reason for that was huge inflationary increases in chicken feed.
My local bakery had to stop baking organic flour bread- last fall, the price of organic flour went up over 30% in one jump- he would need to sell organic bread for between $7 and $10 a loaf- thats 40 pesos, for those of you complaining about 17 peso loaves of bread. As it is, his non-organic bread is 5 bucks and up. Its good bread, but still.

Most every state in the USA has raised various taxes in the last year to account for the cuts in federal dollars- that is not, technically, "inflation", except its exactly the same.
For instance, due to tax increases, last month the price of candy bars, gum, and soda pop went up 10% in Washington State. Beer went up around a buck a sixpack. Liquor went up 10%, across the board, in May (we have a state liquor store system, with universally set prices in every store, and everything went up 10%)
Most Utilities have been creeping up at around 10% a year, some much more, as most utilities here are private, not government, and based on oil prices. Propane and Natural gas are both up.

I could go on- Real estate prices in my area of Washington, which went down maybe 5% to 10% in the last two years, are on their way up again. Many homes are back to their 2008 prices.
Real estate taxes are up, my place was just reappraised at a higher rate.

My business expenses are all up. UPS and FedEx have both raised their prices pretty much yearly for the last few years. Raw materials, like the metals I use in my work, are up- they are based on world prices, and chinese consumption is growing monthly.My subcontractors have all raised prices in the last year or two. Little things like drill bits or welding gases keep creeping up in price- nothing has come down, regardless of economic conditions. In fact, aside from a brief dip in real estate, NOTHING I buy went down in price in the recession of the last two years- everything went UP, instead.

Regardless of the hokum the government put out, The actual amount of money it costs to live in my area of the USA is up at least 10% in the last year, more in certain categories.


Not as much as in Argentina, sure, but far from "dead flat".