Government and own project to withdraw pension funds: “It does not exempt the highest-income people in our country from paying taxes”

The Government went on the offensive and this Wednesday entered the Senate with its own project to withdraw pension funds.

This occurs the same day that the Senate Constitution Committee approved in general and in particular the second withdrawal bill of 10%, dispatching it to the Chamber.

The Minister of the Segpres, Cristián Monckeberg affirmed that “we have wanted to do it well, within the current institutional framework. We have done it with the support of our coalition and the support of each of the parliamentarians ”.

Along these lines, Monckeberg added that “the President has given a clear signal, to listen to the citizens. But it has also given another signal, that things are being done well, respecting the current institutional framework ”.

From the Segpres they detailed that the project will have immediate discussion.

For his part, the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones stated that “the supposed legitimacy of the ends can never be synonymous with the legitimacy of the means. One can have very noble and very legitimate ends, but that never justifies that one uses any means and in a democratic regime, that means cannot break with the fundamental rules of the game for the robustness and health of our democracy ”.

Briones continued and specified that the new project “does not exempt the highest-income people in our country from paying taxes. The constitutional reform that is under discussion does the incredible thing, which is to exempt, that is, to free the highest income people from paying taxes ”.