No one is trolling you. We're just trying to get our heads around an enormous tax that's being introduced based on a lie. The lie being that they want to encourage local tourism. Complete bullshit.
We're back to 2011 now, only worse. Remember when you had to show your air ticket and complete a tax return just to get $50 spending money? To prove you could justify the puny amount of $$ they would allow you?
And it will get worse, with lie after lie compounded, while the legislators wallow in impunity, tax-free salaries and massive expense accounts. Not to mention access to as much foreign currency as they desire.
Also, we don't need a lesson here on how foreign purchases are made. Any idiot knows that Netflix et al only get paid in USD, just like any other card payment on a foreign service.
The argument you're trying to put forward is that now, with 30% on top, we're paying what we really should have been paying all along and that somehow we've been getting it good. And who's fault is that? Ours?
How about last year, when some of us were in Europe and the peso devalued like a fucking stone through no fault of ours and we had to stop using our cards?
Yes, it's directed at Argentines who have damn cheek to buy air tickets, Netflix, hotels abroad, car hire and all the other things that in the rest of the world are taken for granted without even a second thought.
Talking from a position of having funds outside Argentina is all very well and cosy, but the majority of Argentines and yes, thousands of expats, don't have that luxury.
Yet again the middle classes, not to mention the farmers, are being punished for expecting a little more out of life than simply living and struggling in this asylum, just to get a taste of what the real world looks like over there in Shangri-La.
