Pino Corrias: Taxes, if you promise then keep?

This entry is posted on number 26-27 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until 1st July 2025.

Taxes, what a nice dream! Each government that descends from the electoral sky bears in the basket of promises the cut of taxes so certain that it is always imminent. To a breath. Just there, around the corner.

He just said I will Giorgia Meloni who almost every day sings his own praises, inside the mirror of social networks, without ever drying the contradictory, Promising that this time he will reward the middle class with a cut of taxes “in a fair and sustainable way”. Perfect. Too bad he made the identical promise last year, and then erase everything: the pennies were missing in the piggy bank who had been pulled out because of the public debt, inflation, failure to grow industrial growth and other negligible details such as the war in Ukrainian and the double cost of energy. With the result that The tax burden, instead of decreasing or at least remaining stable, has increased by a point and a halfgoing up to 42.6 percent of GDP.

This time, to announce the next cut, Giorgia Meloni has chosen the national assembly of accountants, those who with the taxes of the others are in the big one, and who twice stand up to applaud it on the open scene, until they blown it up: “Eh, but if you do so I am moved!” Said Vezzosa in the microphone. Specifying that intends to cut an Irpef pointor rather two, to those who earn up to 50 thousand euros per year, no indeed up to 60 thousand. What does it take?

As once Indro Montanelli said: “We Italians give for this is just said”. And Giancarlo Giorgetti, Minister of Finance, who blamely applauded the promise and when Meloni finished his triumphant intervention, gave up the riot to cool the riot. Reason? Do not be forced to add details to a not exactly imminent tax cut: “We still have two and a half years old,” he said fleeing. “We will see”.

Especially since The offices in charge of the state budget have calculated that cutting one or two points of Irpef would trigger a greater rate of income to the taxpayers involved, who would eat the increase in one bite.

The same game of promising and not keeping all the governments made it. In the First republic making public debt explode. In the Secondif possible, doubling it. Starting from the sensational governments of Silvio Berlusconi That in 1994 – 30 years ago – took the field with the formidable invention: “Less taxes for everyone”, and then leave the accounts in the abyss, year 2011, escape with all the government in tow and the constant growth tax burden.

Too bad that net of all the propaganda that cheer the happy island told by our parties, the world that surrounds us with hell, inequalities, mass exodus, massacres. The third world war in pieces advances (Copy Pope Francis) Without the drama in progress, ever breaking through our domestic theater.

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