OPINION: Jetset lawmakers rob taxpayers

DEPUTIES of all parties embarked on “work” journeys and extensive journeys.to the four cardinal points of the orb. They have spent a whopping $2.1 million on tickets and travel expenses. There were trips of groups of colleagues who visited Russia, friendly deputies who arrived in Iceland for two days, with tickets that cost $17,000. In addition, a couple of lucky deputies, from different benches, traveled to different continents, without clarity of the public purposes of these visits.

That is the same legislative body that refuses to publish its payrolls, in which they had dozens of million dollars of our taxes, for their appointments, and that in some cases the money It ended up in their pockets. Among them, there are also those who used the money for employees of their companies. There is no doubt that this amount of money destined for travel is outrageous, taking into consideration that this is not a rich country – something that could be if there were not so many  corrupt politicians – and that The needs of the people they claim to represent are enormous. But it is evident that the eagernessto do tourism with our taxes … LAPRENSA, Aug.22