Prepare Yourself For 16% Tax Added Onto Food And Medicine
The PRI got their way, and IVA the 16% National Sales Tax has been added to FOOD and MEDICINE. I have already noticed some price increases in other industries (mostly tourist oriented).
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Being a ciudadano Mexicano (that means Mexican citizen) I watch what the prices do as I am helping out in a large tienda (for free) trying to get stuff in the USA for the lowest possible price (best value) para la gente.
NUMBER ONE. You do not have to wait. The tax is here, and it has been in force for more than a month. Go to a Similares and it will be ADDED onto your ticket. Go to Soriana or Leyes, or La Comerical, look at your ticket receipt. It's tough to argue with that.
qtla9111 Who in the HELL wants to get stuck eating frijoles, tortillas y sal? None of the campesinos I know. The poor are being robbed of 16% of their food and medicine budget. This is basic social studies grade information. You want them "satisfied" on a diet of beans and tortillas?
When MIGUEL hit EPN gets on Carlos Slim's TelCel and appeals for DONATIONS a month after the hurricane tropical storm destroyed thousands of homes AND LEFT THE POOR PAYING SIXTEEN PERCENT MORE FOR FOOD ITEMS. Eggs, mayonnaise, bread, even chicken is not part of the "basics" package. APOYO means paying television companies revenue to tell the public that "Gobernacion Is On The Way" They never show.
You are disconnected from reality to believe this new tax raises a wart on the *** of the upper class and is not devastating to the poor. You know the poor don't you? I live in a neighborhood that as an aggregate total probably does not make as much as your gross income.
Merchants are doing what merchants ALWAYS DO IN A RECESSION in Mexico. They are raising prices. It happened in 1972, 1982, during the Christmas Surprise and it's happening now. Disposable income has DROPPED. Remember milk? Now a freakin' QUART of fresh milk costs almost two dollars. Sixteen percent of very little leaves a hole instead of a starvation budget.
So buckle up pardners, I just paid twenty two pesos more for a container of laundry detergent than I did in late September.
MRI in EVERY hospital? Drs Molina, and Quintero offered a formula to me. If a city does not have an official population of a MILLION or an expensive private hospital, forget MRI. The brand new six story Seguro Popular in La Paz had ONE electrocardiograph for the entire hospital and 2 of 3 X-ray machines were broken. Need medicines? You'll have to send out for it.
But then I live Mexicano. I have not spoken Ingles in weeks if not months. And no I did not vote the Movie Actress or her husband in as presidente.
Being a ciudadano Mexicano (that means Mexican citizen) I watch what the prices do as I am helping out in a large tienda (for free) trying to get stuff in the USA for the lowest possible price (best value) para la gente.
NUMBER ONE. You do not have to wait. The tax is here, and it has been in force for more than a month. Go to a Similares and it will be ADDED onto your ticket. Go to Soriana or Leyes, or La Comerical, look at your ticket receipt. It's tough to argue with that.
qtla9111 Who in the HELL wants to get stuck eating frijoles, tortillas y sal? None of the campesinos I know. The poor are being robbed of 16% of their food and medicine budget. This is basic social studies grade information. You want them "satisfied" on a diet of beans and tortillas?
When MIGUEL hit EPN gets on Carlos Slim's TelCel and appeals for DONATIONS a month after the hurricane tropical storm destroyed thousands of homes AND LEFT THE POOR PAYING SIXTEEN PERCENT MORE FOR FOOD ITEMS. Eggs, mayonnaise, bread, even chicken is not part of the "basics" package. APOYO means paying television companies revenue to tell the public that "Gobernacion Is On The Way" They never show.
You are disconnected from reality to believe this new tax raises a wart on the *** of the upper class and is not devastating to the poor. You know the poor don't you? I live in a neighborhood that as an aggregate total probably does not make as much as your gross income.
Merchants are doing what merchants ALWAYS DO IN A RECESSION in Mexico. They are raising prices. It happened in 1972, 1982, during the Christmas Surprise and it's happening now. Disposable income has DROPPED. Remember milk? Now a freakin' QUART of fresh milk costs almost two dollars. Sixteen percent of very little leaves a hole instead of a starvation budget.
So buckle up pardners, I just paid twenty two pesos more for a container of laundry detergent than I did in late September.
MRI in EVERY hospital? Drs Molina, and Quintero offered a formula to me. If a city does not have an official population of a MILLION or an expensive private hospital, forget MRI. The brand new six story Seguro Popular in La Paz had ONE electrocardiograph for the entire hospital and 2 of 3 X-ray machines were broken. Need medicines? You'll have to send out for it.
But then I live Mexicano. I have not spoken Ingles in weeks if not months. And no I did not vote the Movie Actress or her husband in as presidente.
