In the auditorium of Radio Nacional Rosario “Roberto Fontanarrosa” the provincial deputy and candidate for governor, Leandro Busatto, presented his book “El grito del Siglo XXI”, which seeks to modify the Rural Real Estate of Santa Fe, “a regressive tax, which treats the same a farmer who works his field and to whom he rents thousands of hectares for monoculture,” said the author.
Busatto was accompanied by Pedro Peretti, former director of the Agrarian Federation, current member of El Manifesto Argentino and the Movimiento Arraigo; the doctor in Political Science, Melisa Orta; the agronomist engineer Fernando Martínez; geographer engineer Norberto Frickx and doctor Margarita Portapila, who wrote different chapters of the book.
The proposal of the book and the bill is to reduce 50% of rural real estate to small producers, on the condition that they have only one agricultural economic unit and manage a mixed farm, which breaks with monoculture. The second point, that the 1,200 large owners pay an additional fee and that the proceeds be transformed into a specific allocation fund that, in practice, functions as a solidarity fund for the countryside.
“It is the best real estate project that has been presented in the last 40 years in the province of Santa Fe. It is unassailable from a technical point of view and attacks a central problem, absolutely invisible, which is land. All progressive forces would have to join hands behind this project,” Peretti said.
“Having an agrarian policy is not copying what the Mesa de Enlace does. Leandro takes up the issue with data, with knowledge and with a specific project. This project lowers taxes. We are going to lower taxes, not Milei. If with In this project, taxes are lowered for 25,000 producers and they are increased only for 1,200. Is that lowering or raising taxes?” he insisted.
For Busatto, “the book is one more tool to contribute to the debate of a province that we want to govern.” “There is a status quo that says that certain things cannot be discussed. Like the real estate tax, a regressive tax where a small producer who works his farm pays the same as an owner of large tracts of land who rents them for monoculture,” emphasized.
In addition, he stressed that the proceeds will go to “a specific fund that returns to the field with permanent cadastral updating, so that no one pretends to be alive, and with gas infrastructure, connectivity, to promote economic activity in towns of less than 1,500 Population”.
“If I am governor, I will carry out this proposal in the province so that there are more families working our fields, and if it is not my turn, that the next governor commits to do so,” he insisted.
Present at the presentation were the head of the Frente de Todos Bloc in the National Chamber of Deputies, Germán Martínez; the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Labor of the Nation and candidate for mayor of Rosario, Roberto Sukerman; the Secretary for Strategy and Military Affairs, Sergio Rossi; councilwoman Norma López and the candidate for councilor Juan Giani.
The councilors of Ciudad Futura Juan Monteverde and Caren Tepp also expressed their support for an “essential book for the present and, above all, for the future of our province.” “It is encouraged to raise this type of debate openly, with the bravery and courage that these times demand,” they emphasized.
In addition to the aforementioned authors, Diego Salzman, Ignacio Spontón, Nicolás Lovaisa, Sonia Omelianiuk and Martín Romagnoli also contributed to the book.
