DEAR EDITOR:
Recently, some left-wing economists associated with Bachelet's tax reform have acknowledged that they were wrong. Let me be clear, there was no profound remorse, no agonizing self-criticism, or sense of shared responsibility among them. None offered a portion of their assets to compensate for the enormous damage caused to Chileans by that disastrous reform. It was more of a fleeting moment of intellectual honesty, which, in any case, is not insignificant in these times.
José Miguel Rodríguez Sáez
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DEAR EDITOR:
Recently, some left-wing economists associated with Bachelet's tax reform have acknowledged that they were wrong. Let me be clear, there was no deep regret, no painful self-criticism, or sense of shared responsibility; none offered a portion of their assets to compensate for the enormous damage caused to Chile by that disastrous reform; none of that. It was more of a fleeting moment of intellectual honesty, which, in any case, is not insignificant in these times.
José Miguel Rodríguez Sáez
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