Argentina is the most British country in Latin America. Why?

[u/MontroseRoyal]

I would like to expand upon the title. I believe that Argentina is not only the most ‘British’ country in Latin America, but the most ‘British’ country that was never formally colonized by the British themselves. I firmly believe this and will elaborate.

Let’s start with town names. In the Buenos Aires metro area alone; English & Irish town and neighborhood names are commonplace. Such as Hurlingham, Canning, Billinghurst, Wilde, Temperley, Ranelagh, Hudson, Claypole, Coghlan, Banfield, and even Victoria (yes, purposefully named after the Queen).

One of the two biggest football clubs in the capital has an English name, River Plate. And the sport was brought by some English immigrants. Curiously, Rugby and Polo are also very popular Argentina, unlike surrounding countries. For a long time, the only Harrods outside the UK operated in Buenos Aires too. Many Argentines are of partial English descent. When the English community was stronger, they built a prominent brick monument called “Tower of the English”. After the Falklands, it was renamed to “Tower of the Malvinas” by the government out of spite.

In Patagonia, in the Chubut province particularly, there is obviously the Welsh community with town names like Trelew, Eawson, and Puerto Madryn. Patagonian Welsh is a unique variety of the language that developed more or less independently for a few years with no further influence from English. Although the community and speakers now number little, Welsh traditions are a major tourist factor for Chubut.

There is a notable diaspora community of Scottish and their descendants as well. I remember once randomly walking into a large Scottish festival near Plaza de Mayo where there were many artisan vendors selling celtic merchandise with a couple of traditional Scottish dancers on a stage.

Chile has some British/Irish influence (who can forget Bernardo O’Higgins?), but seemingly not nearly to the same extent. The English community was rather small, so it doesn’t make much sense to me how they can have such a large impact. I guess my question is why Argentina? Of all places

[u/Amphibiansauce → u/[deleted]]

The reason they don’t want to tax tips, is both that restaurateurs would rather pay garbage wages and have tipping be the source of their employees income, and that people constantly cheat their taxes on tipped wages anyway, costing the government a lot of money both in enforcement and in lost revenue.

[u/DanielOrestes → u/[deleted]]

Tax profit. Many 1099 contractors would be rendered insolvent overnight if we taxed gross income uniformly.

[u/CaterpillarLoud8071 → u/[deleted]]

There are many forms of income, goods, investments and assets. Some we want to encourage, others we want to limit. Taxes and subsidies are often more market-friendly in altering behaviour than regulations because we just let the market do its job - ironically this makes them favoured by many libertarians in pushing social goals, e.g. pollution taxes, negative income taxes/basic incomes, land value taxes. Milei may find that without these taxes he has to increase regulatory load.