While Italians are hypnotised by the bunga bunga journalists and by the wiretaps based on flaccid arses, the economic collapse of the Country is at our door. At the Davos conference they are wasting their bets on the chance of our defaulting. The latest lifejacket from Tremorti is to bring about the equation: Public debt = private savings. He has not made a secret of this. The country with the highest taxes in Europe wants to go beyond that. Federal taxes are approaching and they’ll be retroactive. The only true success of the Lega that will administer the coffers of the Local Authorities.
You can hear a sound in the air that takes the form of a flying prick, the one that makes the sound of the straight property tax. They have sent Giuliano Amato on ahead. A guy that got directly into our current accounts and took out 0.6 per cent. Amato is part of that Socialist party that made the public debt explode, a continuous operation performed diligently on behalf of Berlusconi, the successor to ‘Bottino’. Amato proposes grabbing 30,000 euro from a third of the tax payers, the richest ones, to save the country. A measure that affects those who pay taxes, but not the big wealth holders. Whoever has paid, will pay more. Perhaps they will have to get a mortgage on their apartment. They say: “But it’s to save the Nation! Whoever has the most has to give the most.” As a principle this reasoning is not flawed, but to throw into the furnace of a public debt that is growing at 100 billion a year something taken from the wealth without making structural measures (the abolition of the Provinces and the grouping together of the towns with less than 5,000 inhabitants, for example) will just punish those who have always paid up to the last cent of their taxes. With what cheek can this be done by a government that has launched the Fiscal Shield with taxation at 5% on that wealth that had completely dodged taxes? A Ministry of the Economy that sends detailed reprimands for tax declarations with errors of 40/50 euro that does not even minimally tackle the 100 billion a year of tax dodging? ‘Tremorti’ should send a thank you note to the faithful tax payers, and give them a discount on their next income tax payment.
Since last year a few million public employees have had their salaries frozen. Inflation is not waiting for them and every month they are losing something (like Anna in the song by Dalla). Anyone who is today below the age of 50, will never retire. If they succeed it’ll be a miracle or by recommendation or a regional councillor or a parliamentary deputy. We have gone beyond the fruit course at dinner and the drink after the meal. We are clearing the table and the State is preparing to collect the crumbs from underneath the table.