The reforms that are “shared”, “wanted by the citizens” and that “are of interest to the country” are not stopping. In fact they are increasing. Together with the reform of the justice system so that you don’t go on trial and you don’t land up in prison, and the reforms of the Constitution so as to do anti-constitutional laws, Berlusconi has a third law ready: the tax one. A reform done for simpletons. In fact they will never do it because it relates to all the tax payers and not the tax dodgers. It’s an election flash. Just two tax rates, one at 23% and one at 33% with a revenue for the taxman reduced by a few billion euro. To be coherent, Tremorti should have a single tax rate of 5%, the one used for the fiscal shield.
When they speak, they are all close to those who pay taxes. Tremorti wants the tax authorities to be the “friend” of the citizens and to be "socio positivo" with the companies. Paolo Bonaiuti explains that “the government has the intention of designing a system that takes Italy into fiscal modernity”. The PDminusL Opposition through the mouthpiece of Bersanetor, the spokesperson of D'Alema, has however been more specific: “That’s a mistaken proposal as it helps the rich”. For one who, as a result of his absence from parliament, has brought about the approval of the fiscal shield, has helped the ultra-rich and avoided the fall of the government , that is a mega-galactic way of taking the citizens for a ride.
If they want a fiscal reform it has to be based on principles of equity. The amount of tax must not be done at source, with every tax payer declaring their income once a year. No difference between work as an employee and as a non-employee. The research studies carried out in each sector has to be abolished. No one can have the knowledge in advance how much a person will earn and pay tax in advance for an income that often is not in fact earned. Finally if someone is caught red-handed in dodging taxes, any citizen must be treated like a complete tax dodger, a mafioso, an arms trafficker, who exports currency abroad, paying just 5% and then enjoying anonymity. In a few weeks, straight after the elections, there‘ll be not a whisper of new rates of tax as there’ll no longer be any need.
Before the summer, Tremorti, always within reach of a helicopter, will explain to us that the accounts of the State are out of control, that every day he has to sell State bonds worth a billion and a half euro, that he has to sell in 2010, to avoid bankruptcy, AT LEAST 480 billion euro’s worth of State bonds like BOTs and BTPs and that in 2010 we will break through the threshold of 2 thousand billion in public debt, that the unbalance between the money coming in to the State and the money going out is due to be made worse for the lack of tax revenue coming in from millions of people who are unemployed and hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized enterprises, that just for the interest on the debts, unless inflation goes up, the State will be paying 80 billion euro. “But (for the moment) Tremorti does not know this.”