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\u00c1lvaro Noboa:\u00a0My plan will end unemployment, crime and high cost of living<\/strong><\/p>\n In an interview with journalist Luisa Delgadillo from channel RTS, the PRIAN List 7 <\/strong>candidate for President of the Republic, \u00c1lvaro Noboa stated that the \u201c\u00c1lvaro Noboa Plan\u201d<\/strong> would attract a thousand new and big companies that would generate employment, raise people\u2019s income levels, and reduce crime.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to attract a thousand national and foreign investors who will invest in the country, all of them with modern technology.\u00a0 Those investments should be throughout Ecuador and in all areas, in tourism, in industry, in agriculture, in technology.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n He repeated that his plan include those industries offering their employees training, as is done in all modern industry, and in that way they become specialized employees whose basic salaries rise to $1,000. From there, if they go on, they go to a technical school or a university and they specialize, and they go on to earn $2,000 and even $3,000 dollars. And at that moment, they become part of the middle class with the capacity of acquiring a house, a car and better education for their children.<\/p>\n \u00c1lvaro Noboa <\/strong>stated that that could be achieved by lowering taxes on income to 10%. \u201cAs there\u2019s going to be a thousand companies paying 10%, the Treasury is going to be full because 10 x 1000= 10,000. On this very day, there are 40 mid-sized companies paying 23% that doesn\u2019t even reach 1,000. That is to say, in the current economy, private business has 40 companies that don\u2019t even reach paying 1,000, while in the new economy which I propose, there will be one payment of 10,000.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n All of that will be accompanied by judicial guarantees, without anyone putting their hands on the Courts, without class warfare, where everyone is working together \u2013 State, businessman, and workers \u2013 to generate wealth, he indicated.<\/p>\n To lower the high cost of living, he declared, the high tariffs on imports need to be eliminated; free trade agreements need to be made to reduce the price of imported goods, the tax on currency sent abroad needed to be eliminated; the non-refundable advance payment of 2% tax on income, and Value Added Tax (VAT) needed to be lowered.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen there is employment, crime begins to disappear. That\u2019s what happened in Japan, in Norway, in Sweden, where there is 100% employment or 98% employment. In many of those countries there is no crime.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n He called out for the old political scheme to be left behind and condemned the doubling of the number of Ecuadorians who receive the Human Development Voucher. \u201cI want to say that there are two million unemployed, which means that poverty is on the increase in Ecuador.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n At the end of the interview, the List 7 Presidential candidate stated that under his government, he would assign special quotas to the municipalities in order to fight against the impoverished neighborhoods where there are no paved streets, where there is no water, where there are no sewer systems, where there is no electricity, and they living conditions are in a sub-human state.\u00a0 He repeated the denunciation that he had made before representatives of the OAS for the political persecution of which he had been a victim, and for the electoral inequalities there is in regards to the time and space given in the communications media to Economist Correa and that given to the rest of the candidates.<\/p>\n