Taxes should be paid in correspondence to a service received. Tax when the service exists. Those who pay taxes are by now used to considering them as funding that will not be paid back. Usually the service does not exist and the Italians are more often paying for it privately as for the preschool provision and health services. They pay for two and they get one. They’re used to it.
Rigor Montis, ever more similar to the lanky Father Karras in the film “The Exorcist”, has brought in the tax on the “presumed service”. To pay the RAI tax in fact, even in the absence of a TV, it’ll be enough to be in possession of a PC or an iPhone. The RAI is defined as a “public service” and more modestly, a “little service for the parties”. For the destruction of the RAI, let it be Berlusconi, Fini, Casini, and Bersani, who pay. They are the end users of the TV News. The companies, in which famously the employees turn on their PC to watch Vespa, will be taxed for presumed access to the RAI programmes. Crikey, if an employee were to be discovered watching Mazza during their lunch hour, they should be sacked for being in a state of non compos mentis. The presumed service is a fiscal invention that can be applied to any moment in our lives. In future, there’ll be the introduction of the “Serviceometer” that will evaluate the services that you can use. If you can use them, you must pay for them. It doesn’t matter that you couldn’t care less about the services made available. In reality, this way of doing things has already existed for some time for the newspapers that you pay for even if you never buy them, so why not for the RAI? Perhaps the RAI journalists are less like servants than those of the newspapers? Rigor Montis has opened up a new frontier. Are you not using the motorway? You pay anyway a forfeit toll of 500 euro a year. Is your offspring not going to University? Shell out the tuition fee all the same. You are not a fisherman and there are rivers in your region? You are asked to pay an amount for a fishing permit. It’s the route to getting the accounts to balance. The signs on your shop cast shadows on the pavement on a sunny day? Pay the shadow tax even when it’s raining. And it’s always raining! And the government’s always stealing!

PS: The MoVimento 5 Stelle {5 Star MoVement} has no physical Headquarters as laid down in the Non Statute: ARTICLE 1 – NATURE and HEADQUARTERS.