Down at the Mexican Social Security Institute

"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer) 06/01/2019 at 11:08 • Filed to: None

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Who says crumbling socialized medicine infrastructure can’t involve rarified sportscars?

Expired plates, from the tax haven of Morelos

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 11:17

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That is a fantastic color combination, although I would probably spec that with the black and red interior instead of the full red.

Spanfeller is a twat > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 06/01/2019 at 11:23

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It would be a welcome contrast.

ToyotaFamily > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 11:31

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I couldn’t imagine driving that on crappy roads. I remember when I was in Guatemala City I saw a couple of 911’s and even a Gallardo, I felt bad for those cars. 

M.T. Blake > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 11:34

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Gorgeous. 

Spanfeller is a twat > ToyotaFamily 06/01/2019 at 11:38

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Thats a life they chise

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 12:37

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I love that Porsche returned to a roll bar targa style. Not crazy about the red roof on this car though.

Spanfeller is a twat > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 06/01/2019 at 12:38

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I agree with ITA97; it needs a bit of contrast but otherwise I like it. Better than the blacked out bars on the GTS

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 13:11

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Maybe the French had the right idea in 1789

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/01/2019 at 13:19

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I researched further. The car belongs to a decorated neurosurgeon that also practices in private hospitals across North A merica. No corruption of the being here.

Shamefully, our democratic socialist president hasn’t paid the doctors at IMSS since January. 

Funny what information can be extracted from a starbucks coffee cup left in the cupholder.

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 13:25

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Just an expired tax dodging plate?  That’s enough for me.  But I am sure it will trickle down there just like it is here.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/01/2019 at 13:29

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Oh the Morelos plate.

Yeah that’s no great. But it could be worse. In the corruption  spectrum from Colosio to Lozoya I rate this 911 wielding doctor as.... Fernandez de Cevallos (rejection of idealism, but renewed sense of morality, and responsibility) 

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 13:46

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If I have to pay taxes on my car , so should a doctor, no matter how skilled he may be. If there are small cheats like this out in the open , I bet there are larger ones hidden in the balance sheet.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/01/2019 at 14:07

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Yeah, everywhere in Mexico. Half of the economy is informal; not taxed. 

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/01/2019 at 20:59

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I’ll wager it ends up being regressive taxation, too.  Just like Murka.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/01/2019 at 22:37

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It depends. Our informal economy is a complex phenomenon that usually benefits the very rich AND the very poor. Usually the people that benefit the least are multinational corporations and the middle class (as far as I understand it) 

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/02/2019 at 19:37

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Weird, where in Murka it all benefits corporations and the top few at the expense of the middle class and below.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/02/2019 at 19:54

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Well, the thing is, the informal economy here is made up of street merchants, some farmers, ta xi drivers etc and it sounds like a niche group, but it’s actually huge. So big in fact that it’s estimated that half of our transactions are made informally, as in, without taxation.

In the end these merchants also benefit from some barebones social security nets . Plus the public areas where they are... streets, metro stations, plazas... local governments sometimes organize street markets, and they don’t usually charge for the people to set up a shop .

The other end of the spectrum is the mass tax avoidance by big national and international corporations. Such as Televisa, Walmart (keep in mind that walmart here is not owned entirely by the Waltons) , etc those companies evaded billions in federal taxes during Peña Niet0's government.

So in the end, the people who get screwed are mostly businesses too small to pay tax attorneys to evade taxes efficiently, or foreign businesses that don’t understand the Mexican fiscal and regulatory system well enough...

The small businesses I talk about are also effected by street merchants because even if they are selling a similar product, a street merchant doesn’t have to pay taxes, or utilities, and they can’t really be sued over a bad product, whereas a registered business might be sued constantly by the CFPB.

Getting more people registered as tax payers was one of Peña Nieto’s biggest achievements as President, through a system where unregistered merchants were given government backed loans at a low rate in exchange of registering as tax payers, and also forgiving some tax evasion by companies in exchange of entering a “regularization” scheme.

some systems worked worse, some mayors tried to regulate street vendors in exchange for some shacks with water and electricity, but the taxes were too high for them so they ignored the shacks.

You could argue for days about the effectiveness of Peña Nieto’s fiscal agenda, but it was certainly a step in the right direction as far as fairness and competition goes.

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/02/2019 at 20:11

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Interesting, definitely a different culture with the street vendors. Plenty of under the table work north of you, but not to such a scale.

We just get a threadbare safety net and continued promises that things will trickle down.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/02/2019 at 20:41

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I mean, they get *very* basic social security benefits, they don’t get a pension for instance. So you see 50 year old street vendors that will have to work until they literally die. Sometimes tax avoidance doesn’t pay out in the long run.

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/02/2019 at 20:45

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Maybe not much better here.  There is subsidized housing for some, but basic social security benefits are poverty level for many, and there is no national pension.  Work til you die might end up being the new normal.