The opinion poll "L'Italia deve uscire dall'Euro" {Italy has to leave the Euro} has seen the triumph of the euro sceptics. Out of 20,176 responses, 11,352 said YES, equivalent to 56.68% and 8,676 said NO, equivalent to 43.32%. a good 10,608 explained the reasons for their vote. “Una Summa dell'Euro”. Anyone with time to read them can get a complete view, perhaps after dinner to digest the new taxes. I’m reporting three reasons in favour of an exit from the Euro and three reasons in favour of staying in the Euro.

EURO NO
1 – Since a radical change in the economic scenario is inevitable, having our own currency means that it is possible to control our economy. Otherwise we will be phagocytised and sold off. Since we have to land up in misery, we may as well end up there as owners of our own stuff. … And then, it’s useless to keep alive a system that is anyway destined to end
2 – To get back control of our monetary policy. The exit from the Euro has to be accompanied by the introduction of a national currency created without debt: the State, not the banks, creates money and uses it to pay salaries to public employees and accepts it for the payment of taxes. This would guarantee that the new currency keeps its value. For greater detail on the strategy to exit the Euro I suggest this link http://smarttaxes.org/2011/11/22/moslerpilkington-a-credible-eurozone-exit-plan/
3 – Because in the ten years after the introduction of the single currency we have made the situation worse, certainly with the interest rates that the Euro has offered it has been easier to get into debt, however by getting into debt it’s not as though that much is resolved …without mentioning then the lack of purchasing power of the banknotes. In certain cases the cost of living has actually doubled in relation to the old lira, in fact those that haven’t entered the Euro have done better than those in the single currency (look at Sweden, Poland, Denmark and Norway). Certainly the fault is not all in the Euro because in the last ten years, we have seen production from countries that we hardly ever heard mentioned, like China and India, and for this reason, the cost of raw materials has shot up to the sky (like oil and its by-products, but also wheat, rice etc. )

EURO YES
1 – It’s not Italy that has to leave the Euro, but the Europe of the Euro that has to pay for its errors. Europe has to settle its debts with a patrimonial tax of 1-2% on banking transactions and on bank capitalisation. The banks that have caused the problem have to pay for what they have allowed to happen and with them all the accommodating politicians.
2 –It’s not wise to throw away the baby with the bath water. The problem is not the Euro itself, but the failure to complete the unification of the economies and the European economic policies. Three things are still necessary: a common economic policy, a common foreign policy and a real federal central bank that prints money and that does everything done by central banks. I don’t want to renounce the Euro: it’s convenient throughout the world and it’s useful for stabilising inflation and to defend the purchasing power of the families of wage earners. When a currency is subject to inflation, the wage earners pay the price and the exporting companies rake in the benefits
3 – It would be a catastrophe: we would lose the stability of the currency. Our currency would be devalued and we would in fact return to the period immediately after the war and without a Marshall Plan. Leaving the Euro is suicide: we could look forward to thirty years of Argentina and then who knows … we would probably be phagocytised before that by our neighbours. The solution is to stay in the Euro, to send home the incompetent politicians that have brought us to this condition and save the Euro and Europe by aiming at having not Eurobonds but a truly United Europe, with a truly united tax system, government and economy.

The games about the Euro are being carried on above the heads of the people of Europe. The referendum on the Euro in Greece has disappeared from one day to the next and the premier Papandreou who proposed that, has been put outside the door without even a week’s notice.
A referendum on the Euro would make it possible for Italians to weigh up the reasons for YES and for NO, both of which are legitimate, and not to leave in the hands of others, the decision on our own destiny.
Today’s opinion poll is "Referendum sull'Euro" {Referendum on the Euro}. Vote and give your reasons.

Look at the results