Interesting this FREE article from a newspaper directed by Maurizio Belpietro.
Yesterday the Bank of the South. The other day the bridge over the Strait. The tax issue is the great missing
Carlo Stagnaro
And taxes? Yesterday the Bank of the South. The other day the bridge over the Strait. The day before, the abolition of the provinces who comes the cavalry. The liberalization of local public services thinning, the pension reform that moves away, the subsidies that swells to Fiat, and so forth. The tax issue is the great absentee.
The inability to act on taxes is not just the political equivalent of the omission of relief, given the parlous state into which the productive fabric of the country, but also a failure very close to treason.
When, in 1994, the premier took the field, the "new Italian miracle" was the single rate, the dream of all the liberals that only a few developing nations have put into practice (with sensational results in terms of economic growth) . The rapid parable of the first Berlusconi government, the defeat of 1996, the long march through the desert and then return to Palazzo Chigi in 2001 to vaccinate center against the naive enthusiasm. But still there was talk of a radical reform of the two rates to 23 and 33 percent: Giulio Tremonti, Minister of Economy yesterday and today, he went away slamming the door. "I wanted to cut taxes and did not let me." And when he returned a year later, it took at least one piece of revenge, with a healthy pruning the rates. Then the elections, the victory for the zero point of Romano Prodi, the Counter Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa. The center said the barricades against the tax increase, he declared war on the political "tax and spend", and won the elections in 2008. Well a good.
Then came the crisis, the suffering of business especially in the north, has become more acute, the tax regime more oppressive yoke. Why give the state half of what s'incassa not make ends meet, because the tax system is so fucking complex, often because evasion is necessary for survival, other than dishonesty. And the government is doing? Spending and taxes, such as before.
In 2008, the Italians have given the Treasury settecentroventitremiliardicinquecentoquarantasettemilioni euro, equal to 46 percent of gross domestic product, while government spending has gone even higher, touching 49 per cent of GDP. The actual close of the press is much more fierce for tax payers who can not or do not want to escape, since about one quarter of the Italian economy is submerged. Add to this the enormous weight of an infinite number of rules, that complicate the lives of citizens, turning into an obstacle course of daily exercise of their activities. According to the World Bank, Italy is the country in the world centotrentacinquesimo simplicity of the tax system, not just robbed, they also want you to drown in unnecessary cards in triplicate.
Where's the Berlusconi called immoral that a levy of more than one third of the wealth? And what we're doing the League if its parliamentarians raise the subject when it comes to hand South spraying of public money but are unable to bring home that breath of fresh air in the Po Valley has damn need? And the posters that have made the electoral fortunes of the Northern League, the North goose that laid golden eggs and the pay and shut up jackass Lombard? The paradox is that there never was, on paper, a northerner government more than this: Berlusconi, the man of lower taxes for everyone, is the undisputed leader, Umberto Bossi is its closest ally and the shareholder of reference the majority, the guarantor of the relationship between the two, Tremonti, occupies the chair key Via XX Settembre. PDL League and have not caught the consensus just to build bridges or banks: do as well, but not enough and probably will not like it. The mission of which were invested is spent in the South: to respond to the North. Lower taxes and simpler. As Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. That's why people voted for Berlusconi. Believed to buy Kaka: You who have found themselves Jankulovski?
to release, October 16, 2009
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