translated from Spanish: Mario Aguilar replies to Minister Briones and his “outrageous” saying: “A professional who makes $1.6 million liquidised is not a rich one”

The president of the College of Teachers, Mario Aguilar criticized the statements expressed by the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, who assured that those public employees who earn more than $2 million a month are found 5% richest in the population. This, after six of the 16 public sector guilds , including the College of Teachers, rejected the Government’s latest proposal on readjustment.
In the face of the rejection, Briones said this morning on Cooperative Radio that he finds it quite surprising that what this readjustment has been. “If the concern of the guilds is the high incomes, I find it quite paradomically with the speech that is publicly being raised.” And he recalled, emphasizing the country’s “complex economic scenario, that “someone earning more than $2 million is in the top 5% of our country’s highest income. Then there is the paradox that the guilds that didn’t want to sign the agreement do so by saying that they want a bigger readjustment for the richer sectors.”
In this regard, Aguilar said that “those statements of the minister are unpresentable” and emphasized that the $2 million to which Briones refers is $1.6 million liquid.
“A professional who makes $1.6 million liquids is not a rich man. A professional who earns $1.6 million and has two children studying at university and has no gratuitousness or help, makes almost superhuman efforts by that family to have their children study and to rank them among the rich frankly outrageous,” he told same radio.
“I mean, to locate a middle-class professional, as is someone who makes $1.6 million liquid (…) that locates a teacher, a health professional, a public official who earns $1.6 million as part of the rich people of this country who have to make the effort (…) it is frankly insulting I would say on the part of the minister of the minister of finance” Remarked.

Original source in Spanish

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