Another theft: Javier Milei plagiarized the idea of ​​his “chainsaw plan”

2023-09-25 21:50:53

“The chainsaw plan It is because we are going to hand over the chainsaw to public spending. Tremble politicians, thieves, they are going to be left without stealing, they are going to have to work like honest people. “Keep lying to people, thieves.”

The one who speaks is Javier Milei, when he began to present what ended up becoming his great banner of the campaign, at the start of 2023. Since then the idea of ​​the chainsaw took over his platform: it became a stable part of his caravan tours around the country, he became be the heart of his speech and was even transformed into merchandising for himself and his followers. Even libertarian critics appropriated the term. Several analysts spoke of the “chainsaw vote” it is included Cristina Kirchner, in his public reappearance on Saturday, spoke on the subject. “It’s impossible to go with the chainsaw because they don’t give you the numbers.”

However, like much of what happens on the planet Milei, the distance between reality and discourse is abyssl. The thing is the libertarian, who proclaims himself as the standard bearer of honesty that comes to put an end to theft and corruption, He is a thief. One in the literal sense: whatand appropriates what is foreign, of what does not belong to him, what is known on the street as “jet”. NEWS, almost alone, has been investigating this unknown side of the economist: an investigation by Tomás Rodríguez showed how “Pandenomics”, his book that later became a short film, includes thefts from at least six authors – one of them, the Mexican Salvador Urribari, started a trial for plagiarism -, another by the journalist and intellectual José Benegas that proves how Milei plagiarized the prologue of a new edition of “Four thousand years of price and salary controls” and also one more that borders on the absurd , when it was revealed that “the path of the libertarian,” the candidate’s autobiography, also includes copied phrases. Almost a meme.

Now an additional chapter is added. The thing is that the much talked about idea of ​​the chainsaw plan is not his. Did the libertarian borrow it? from the US senator’s campaign Rand Paul. In 2015 The man, from the most conservative sector of the Republican Party, wanted to challenge Donald Trump in the internal party, and for that he proposed an original idea: destroy the “tax code”taxes, with a chainsaw.

Rand shot a spot –in which an electric guitar playing the American national anthem sounded in the background- in which he grabbed a chainsaw and tore up “70,000 pages” of that nation’s tax code. The video was so viral that CNN itself later went to an international lumberjack competition to seek expert opinion on the senator’s skill in destroying papers with his chainsaw. Could Milei have gotten it from there? In the background, nothing new appears under the sun: The plagiarist continues to plagiarize.

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