Fiscal federalism is almost upon us. And while the League is claiming victory, many citizens are wondering what the actual impact on their economic and social condition.
The slogan "less taxes for all" is no longer a cliché of political theater of the real administrative option. Fiscal federalism had in this regard, initially set high expectations. Now things are beginning to be for what they are: the transfer of powers to local authorities will be without sufficient financial resources and because of the severe crisis of public finance, the regions and municipalities will be obliged to introduce new heavy taxes and new taxes to make ends meet.
Faced with this situation, we must put aside the slogans and then finally seriously. Get serious means, for example, to clear the issue of tax revenue.
To begin with, it is good that people know what you're talking about. What
daily call "taxes" is, in fact, two radically different tax categories: taxes, on the one hand, and taxes and real and his other hand. This is not to introduce specious academic distinctions but to make clear what is the substantial difference between the two instruments of taxation.
Taxes are the price citizens pay for public services: those are taxes on waste, ports and airports, traffic, etc..
In fact, more and more for certain public services to quantify, the actual tax system is being replaced by specific pricing (this is the case, for example, waste).
taxes instead are a tribute not tied to a specific public service constitutes a levy to cover general government spending. According to Article 53 of our Constitution: "Every person shall contribute to public expenditure because of their ability to pay. The tax system is based on criteria of progressivity. "
this policy of progressive improvement, based on the principle" who has more, pay more ", no one today seems to want to remember. The "taxes" have thus prevailed even in language as well as in political practice.
Here then is that, given the crisis in local finance, the most immediate and automatic response is to increase taxes and fees.
E 'success in Venice, a few months ago, with the rates of public transport and is likely to happen in the short to waste, school canteens and many other essential public services. In this way, inequality is clear: everyone pays the same contribution, whether it be with an unemployed or a student, be it of a rich landowner. The effect is clearly regressive because the sacrifice for those with low incomes and an irrepressible need is much higher than those with high incomes and benefits, as an alternative, private facilities (the most emblematic case is the health care). To reaffirm
a minimum of fair taxation, we must go back to talk about taxes. It 'is well known that local authorities do not have "fiscal autonomy", but they must, willy-nilly if they will not get it bankruptcy. First, the additional tax. But not enough. We need a tax on buildings and on large estates. And in Venice it is needed more than elsewhere, because this city can not be treated as a cash cow, however, particularly debilitated, where those who benefit most do not bother if you can eat enough! The French often
remember that it was for a different tax justice who made the revolution of '89. His cousins, the Alps, individual rights and duties of citizens are the very architecture of the communities themselves. For this reason, pay taxes in France is an essential part being a citizen. The Italian story is different: with many revolutions and without real mediation. Yet we need the same materials to reconstruct a pact of trust between citizens, a new deal that will allow us to get out of the quagmire in which we live.
It 's time that singers of liberalism stop preaching that with the growth of government revenues increase again, because there is no development where there is the least to prepare for the future. A minimum called school, health, maintenance of existing infrastructure, efficient transport, etc..
Why, to dispel another common place for some time, in our beautiful country, but rather not pay more Pants poor Harlequin. It 's time to change the script.
Giampietro Pizzo
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