Ionuț Pucheanu, Mayor of Galați. Photo: Crop Inquam Photos / George Călin
The idea that “state” works only the resignations and incompetents, while healthy ideas circulate only in the private environment has been denied, dry, by a recent episode, broadcast live on television.
The head of the Defense Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, PSD MP Mihai Weber, has not passed the Mercedes statement with which it circulates. The car of 150,000 euros is on behalf of a company that holds a village store, the SNOOOOop investigative site said on Thursday.
Weber is not the first politician to use something else in reality than he has in the declaration of wealth and that was the article.
In the anger of social networks and television, angles have slide and it is the right of people to choose their own perspective. Towards evening, at Digi 24 it was discussed if Weber's company was in the “hunted” situation, coincidence, even by the PSD. If it's not too small a company to leasing a Mercedes.
The discussion with the small companies and the “luxury” expenses recently appeared in the public space, after the PSD proposed “that VAT related to the acquisition of clothing, footwear, cosmetics, personal goods or tourist services should not be deductible for companies, in case of mainly personal use.
At Digi, at that time, Ionuț Pucheanu intervened.
Pucheanu, 44, is the PSD politician, the mayor of Galați at the third term. He is also PSD vice president on the South-East region. The politician said: “From where to where? The state, no matter who he would, tell me how to spend my money, as long as I paid taxes and taxes to the state?”.
Absolutely correct. Since when is the state's job to teach entrepreneurs to dose their investments? We want to decide the Government on behalf of the private ones which computer, which printer, chair or car have the right to purchase? The building of the State Committee of Socialist Planning on Calea Victoriei has remained, but it has been 35 years since someone set the egg plan of all the chickens in Romania.
The social-democratic mayor of Galați continued: “Forgive me, but this is a coarse intervention of the state.”
One is not to allow companies to be robbed by shareholders through absurd expenses. And another is to have states of state enter the minds of people and decide in their place.
It was a small lesson of capitalism and democracy that came from where it was needed: from the state.
