Taxes for the medics

[NewsWhore]

Legislators have rejected a bill that sought to increase taxes on Liquid Propane Gas sales or luxury cars as a way of paying for a planned wage increase for public sector doctors. A commission headed by Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez has been trying to find funding sources to cover the increase in wages promised to public hospital physicians since the end of 2008. So far, the only proposed source of funding that has not met with strong opposition is a new tax on sports betting shops.

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