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To: didjuneau who wrote (438130)	10/22/2024 4:01:10 PM
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I'm watching mainstream candidates for office talk openly about things that got me shadow banned for discussing a few years ago. This is beautiful. We're reaching levels of anti-government outrage that shouldn't even be possible. 😎 pic.twitter.com/PU4ZCl6ef4 — Fight With Memes (@fightwithmemes) October 22, 2024 Ronald Reagan famously said that “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program” & in Congress I’ve learned just how true this is. My proposed rule change for the 119th Congress would require all legislation considered by the House to have a sunset provision. pic.twitter.com/wLUEvxC5cq — Rep. Harriet Hageman (@RepHageman) September 19, 2024 We must confront and dismantle this censorship apparatus to protect our fundamental right to free speech. Learn about my bill with @RepHageman and @RepDanBishop, the Standing to Challenge Government Censorship Act: https://t.co/DjPvH4O2aj https://t.co/QZWR0E7w7X — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) August 27, 2024

To: didjuneau who wrote (438130)	10/22/2024 4:08:42 PM
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Government announces it will ‘dissolve’ Argentina’s tax agency The AFIP will be replaced with a new, reduced agency and over 3,000 jobs are on the chopping block buenosairesherald.com BUENOS AIRES HERALD OCTOBER 21, 2024 President Javier Milei’s government announced on Monday that Argentina’s federal tax agency, AFIP by its Spanish initials, will be dissolved and replaced with a new agency in accordance with its mandate to “reduce inefficient structures.” According to Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, 34% of public service jobs within the AFIP will be eliminated. As of Monday evening, no details had been released regarding the new agency’s operations or what the move means in concrete terms for the country’s fiscal infrastructure. “AFIP will cease to exist. In its place, the Collection and Customs Control Agency will be created with a simplified structure,” said Adorni in his routine press conference at the Casa Rosada. According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, he did not accept questions after the announcement. The new and reduced agency, ARCA by its Spanish initials, will be a merger between two preexisting government bodies (the tax and customs general directorates, DGI and DGA by their Spanish acronyms). It will be led by Florencia Misrahi, a lawyer who formerly worked for Cargill and is currently serving as the head of the AFIP. “The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added. A communiqué released on Monday afternoon described the AFIP as inefficient and highlighted the termination of 3,155 workers hired under former President Alberto Fernández. The communiqué refers to the administration as “Kirchnerite” in reference to Fernández’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who is often targeted by government discourse. Adorni claimed that firing the workers would lead to savings of around AR$6.4 billion per year. Both the spokesman and the communiqué referred to their employment as “irregular,” questioning the legality of their hiring. “The creation of ARCA is aimed at reducing the size of the state, eliminating unnecessary positions, professionalizing the agency, destroying circuits of corruption, and improving the efficiency of customs collection and control,” read the communiqué. pic.twitter.com/B9pofFn5D3 — Oficina del Presidente (@OPRArgentina) October 21, 2024 According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, the AFIP Board of Directors said it did not have “objections with respect to the reduction of political positions,” which the government referred to as “high positions,” because that is a power reserved for the Executive Branch. However, it emphasized that “dismissals will not be tolerated on the basis of political origin.”