NewsWhore
01-20-2011, 03:40 PM
In an interview in El Caribe, businessman Ignacio Mendez described the Fernandez administration as "bipolar". "While there is a group of government officials thinking about the country, taking measures with plans and projects, with a medium and long-term projection, there is another group that is simply thinking about politics and their individual interests and their actions contradict the ones the other group has prepared," he said. He mentioned the case of Proindustria, where its benefits were annulled by an administrative measure. He also criticized the fact that the government legislates for big business, forgetting that small business makes up 95% of all businesses in the country. He mentioned the case of the Safety and Occupational Health Ruling that was thought up for big business, and as a result only 30 companies are complying with it. He said that the cost of implementing the system is unreachable for small and medium-sized businesses. The law orders companies with 100 employees to maintain a doctor's office.
Mendez said that the main problems facing business are electricity (he called for ridding the industry of politics), lack of low-cost, long-term financing, ending the favorable facilities granted to duty free zones, the transport monopoly, business climate, education, security, government corruption, juridical security, and the failure to fulfill the Social Security Law.
He also criticized the government's practice of resorting to the easy way of increasing charges on those who are already paying n such as in the case of paying electricity consumers, companies that pay taxes and employees who pay taxes.
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Mendez said that the main problems facing business are electricity (he called for ridding the industry of politics), lack of low-cost, long-term financing, ending the favorable facilities granted to duty free zones, the transport monopoly, business climate, education, security, government corruption, juridical security, and the failure to fulfill the Social Security Law.
He also criticized the government's practice of resorting to the easy way of increasing charges on those who are already paying n such as in the case of paying electricity consumers, companies that pay taxes and employees who pay taxes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)