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sabato 14 aprile 2012
Italy, another increase on gasoline taxes
The Council of Ministers yesterday approved the draft reform of the Civil Protection. As had been widely publicized, it was necessary to find the money to fund it, given the lack of resources. It was initially thought to a charge of 2 cents on every sms, while at the end it resulted to be a tax of 5 cents on gasoline, in case it is declared a state of emergency. The idea that the fee is applied only in case of need have not to be altogether thrown away, is a correct principle. The problem, however, is that the increase of excise duties on petrol could (being optimistic) be more permanent than temporary. The historical reality tells us that the Italian State has always been very fast in increasing taxes on fuel, but it was very slow, let us say motionless, in removing them once the emergency ended. We are still paying taxes to fund the Vajont disaster, the floods in Florence, several earthquakes, the war in Ethiopia! These things are certainly not new to the reader, my reflection is rather on real professionalism and ability of our government at this time. Italy has perhaps never been ruled by skilled people, at least recently, however I find that the principle for this government is that for every requirement you should use a tax increase. I am just saying that the previous governments were able to practice even more imaginative strategies. Perhaps some hint of an attempt to stimulate growth. This government has increased taxes on gasoline at 8 cents in December, a figure never heard before, not to mention IVA(additional tax on all the amount) ... it has increased the retirement age and introduced the IMU (tax on houses). Now I wonder, with all this money, what have been actually done? Why did not seem at all to me it has been spent to create the conditions for growth which can avoid in the future having to always resort to taxation and simliar measures to keep on the country? Someone could impute me to neglect the fact that the crisis that the Monti government has faced is one of the worst, perhaps the worst ever to hit Italy as we know it today. It 's true, but for this he was called, with his squadron of heroes flying alongside. At a great crisis, we wanted to answer with a group of people with great skills. For now, have only been shown to be able to put greater taxes . I do not suppose this was meant when talking of great skills...
Etichette:
economic crisis,
Italy,
Mario Monti,
patrol tax,
taxes
Aumento benzina per Protezione Civile
Il Consiglio dei ministri ha approvato ieri, in via preliminare, la riforma della Protezione Civile. Come era già stato ampiamente pubblicizzato, era necessario trovare i soldi per finanziarla data la carenza di risorse. Si era inizialmente pensato ad una tassa di 2 centesimi sugli sms, la conclusione è stata una tassa di 5 centesimi sulla benzina, nel caso in cui sia dichiarato lo stato d'emergenza. L'idea che la tassa venga applicata solamente in caso di necessità non è del tutto da buttare via, è un principio corretto più di tanti altri. Il problema, però, è che l'aumento delle accise sulla benzina potrebbe (ad essere ottimisti) essere più permanente che temporaneo. La realtà storica ci dice che lo Stato è sempre stato molto celere nell'aumentare le imposte sul carburante, mentre è stato molto lento, diciamo pure immobile, al momento di toglierle una volta finita l'emergenza. Paghiamo ancora tasse per finanziare il disastro del Vajont, l'alluvione di Firenze, vari terremoti, la guerra in Etiopia! Queste cose sono di certo non nuove a chi legge, la mia riflessione è piuttosto sulla reale professionalità e capacità di chi ci governa in questo momento. L'Italia non è forse mai stata governata da persone capaci, almeno recentemente, tuttavia non mi risulta che per ogni esigenza si dovesse ricorrere ad un aumento delle tasse. Mi risulta che i governi precedenti fossero in grado di mettere in pratica anche strategie più fantasiose. Magari qualche abbozzo di tentativo per stimolare la crescita. Questo governo ha già aumentato le imposte sulla benzina di 8 centesimi a Dicembre, una cifra inaudita, per non parlare dell'IVA...ha aumentato l'età pensionabile, ha introdotto l'IMU. Ora io mi chiedo, con tutti questi soldi, cosa si è fatto realmente? Perchè non mi sembra affatto che vengano spesi per creare i presupposti di una crescita che possa evitare, in futuro, di dover sempre ricorrere a tassazione e misure del genere per mandare avanti il Paese? Mi si imputerà di trascurare il fatto che la crisi che il governo Monti ha dovuto affrontare è sicuramente una delle peggiori, forse la peggiore, che abbia mai colpito l'Italia come la conosciamo oggi. E' vero, ma proprio per questo era stato chiamato lui, col suo squadrone di eroi svolazzanti al fianco. Ad una grande crisi, si voleva rispondere con un gruppo di persone dalle grandi capacità. Per ora, hanno solo dimostrato di essere in grado di mettere tasse più grandi. Immagino che non si intendesse esattamente questo quando si diceva grandi capacità...
Etichette:
crisi,
Governo,
Mario Monti,
Monti,
Protezione civile,
Tassa Benzina,
Tasse Benzina
martedì 10 aprile 2012
Spread up to 390, is Monti failing?
This morning, spread (between italian and german bonds) climbed to 390 basis points. For which reasons? I think the government has not understood that, with what he did, he just put some patches on huge holes that needed instead to be filled with solid earth. He was not wrong to raise the retirement age, it was not wrong to raise taxes, of course talking about the context of Italy nowadays. What was wrong was to do absolutely nothing to stimulate economic growth in a country that is not growing and will continue not to do so. They have tried to head that the cause of all the ills of the country was the amendment of Article 18, even when the reality is that the cause of all the ills of the country is the ridiculous level of tax evasion. They could have liberalize, could have streamline the bureaucracy, they did nothing. They threw in the toilet the greatest opportunity that, perhaps, an Italian government has ever had. We called a caretaker government that bore his power by adopting solutions that my grandmother would have been able to adopt the same way. They could show the ineptitude of politicians, instead they almost succeeded in the endeavor to make them appear capable people. They continue in their policy dangling, youth unemployment is dramatically increasing and so the spread. Nobody should think that speculation is attacking us strongly. Speculation, in this case, is natural, it is not the matter.
These market gurus would have known what to do to be successful, at least towards the market. Because we have disgraced the citizens of the State, in the name of the market (...). And then, if neither the market enjoyed them, the road to bankruptcy (for the Government and for all us) is increasingly flattened ...
venerdì 6 aprile 2012
Monti and Art.18
Here we are. The biggest topic of discussion these days in Italy was Article 18. You all know what it is, so I do not break your balls further. Mario Monti came to the government promising a lot of economic wonders. At first, the undersigned also appreciated. It was necessary to reduce the spread with Germany's bund and this wasn't a secondary, useless thing like many may think. Without this, we would end up really bad altogether. So ok, let's go with the blows to employees and retirees, but not just them. And it worked , the spread is down, we are all (relatively) calmer. But also more, more angry. Because it is clear that if we were able to plug the hole, we did it with a finger, and sooner or later those who put the finger will want to go home. In other words, the ridicolous taxation level to which we are all subjected, sooner or later will be unbearable.
In order to avoid this danger, policies were needed for economic growth. What have been done? Nothing. Only exception, the change in the said Article 18. Which makes it "easier" for a company to lay off employees. And, until tonight, did not provide even that employees dismissed for economic causes later revealed as fake, could not even be reinstated by a judge. All this because we, as a country, could be more attractive for foreign investments. And because "no Western country" has something like Article 18. I am not a nationalist, but are we sure it's just that (among many) the field in which we should take lessons? Change the labor market does not mean building a situation in wich a forty or fifty years old man can be fired without a system allowing him to find another workplace. What should do, a family man with 24 months of salary? Who will hire him, a forty-five, in today's world? Companies, in Italy, have always fired when necessary. It is not necessary to give them the opportunity to do it so indiscriminately. We're not the Usa, we have a different economic system. I am pissed. Because I have twentytwo years, I am studying at university, and if I find a job no one will give me a mortgage. I do not care about having money, but I would like to have a family, children. And a house, where you can spend time with them, where you can raise them. If I take an indefinite period contract but I can easily be laid off, who will give me a mortgage? And who will give it to people much less fortunate than me, who can not even count on some possible help from parents? Let's First make the system capable to ensure a large number of assumptions. Then make layoffs easier. Do liberalizations. Levin back to all this burocracy. Open a blog is probably the easiest thing you can do in Italy. It would be nice if it were so for a company. It would be even better if Mario Monti realize that he is running into trouble two generations, young and old people. All people who pay taxes (or would pay them if they found a job ...) and who are all fed up.
In order to avoid this danger, policies were needed for economic growth. What have been done? Nothing. Only exception, the change in the said Article 18. Which makes it "easier" for a company to lay off employees. And, until tonight, did not provide even that employees dismissed for economic causes later revealed as fake, could not even be reinstated by a judge. All this because we, as a country, could be more attractive for foreign investments. And because "no Western country" has something like Article 18. I am not a nationalist, but are we sure it's just that (among many) the field in which we should take lessons? Change the labor market does not mean building a situation in wich a forty or fifty years old man can be fired without a system allowing him to find another workplace. What should do, a family man with 24 months of salary? Who will hire him, a forty-five, in today's world? Companies, in Italy, have always fired when necessary. It is not necessary to give them the opportunity to do it so indiscriminately. We're not the Usa, we have a different economic system. I am pissed. Because I have twentytwo years, I am studying at university, and if I find a job no one will give me a mortgage. I do not care about having money, but I would like to have a family, children. And a house, where you can spend time with them, where you can raise them. If I take an indefinite period contract but I can easily be laid off, who will give me a mortgage? And who will give it to people much less fortunate than me, who can not even count on some possible help from parents? Let's First make the system capable to ensure a large number of assumptions. Then make layoffs easier. Do liberalizations. Levin back to all this burocracy. Open a blog is probably the easiest thing you can do in Italy. It would be nice if it were so for a company. It would be even better if Mario Monti realize that he is running into trouble two generations, young and old people. All people who pay taxes (or would pay them if they found a job ...) and who are all fed up.
Etichette:
article18,
economic reform,
Italy,
Mario Monti
mercoledì 4 aprile 2012
Monti e Articolo 18
Eccoci qua. Il più grande tema di discussione, in questi giorni, è stato l'articolo 18. Tutti sapete cos'è, quindi non vi rompo ulteriormente le palle. Mario Monti è arrivato al governo promettendo chissà quante e quali meraviglie economiche. All'inizio, il sottoscritto lo ha anche apprezzato. Bisognava ridurre lo spread e non era una cazzata come in molti possono pensare. Senza questo, sarebbe saltato tutto. Quindi ok, giù con le botte da orbi a lavoratori dipendenti e pensionati, su tutti ma non solo. Ed è servito, lo spread è sceso, siamo tutti (relativamente) più calmi. Ma anche più imbufaliti. Perché è chiaro che, se siamo riusciti a tappare il buco, lo abbiamo fatto con un dito, e prima o poi chi il dito l'ha messo avrà voglia di tornarsene a casa. In altre parole, il livello ridicolo di tasse al quale siamo tutti sottoposti prima o poi sarà insopportabile.
Per evitare questo pericolo, servivano politiche per la crescita economica. Cosa è stato fatto? Niente. Tranne, la modifica al suddetto articolo 18. Che rende più "facile" per un'azienda licenziare i dipendenti. E, fino a stasera, non prevedeva nemmeno che i dipendenti licenziati per una causa economica poi rivelatasi fittizia, non potessero nemmeno essere reintegrati da un giudice. Tutto ciò perché dobbiamo, come Paese, attrarre gli investimenti stranieri. E perché "nessun paese occidentale" ha qualcosa come l'articolo 18. Io non sono un nazionalista, ma siamo sicuri che sia proprio questo (tra tanti) il campo in cui dovremmo prendere lezioni? Cambiare il mercato del lavoro non vuol dire fare in modo che un quarantenne o un cinquantenne possa essere licenziato senza che il sistema gli consenta di trovare un altro posto. Cosa dovrebbe farci, un padre di famiglia, con 24 mensilità? Chi lo assume, un quarantacinquenne, nel mondo di oggi? Le aziende, in Italia, hanno sempre licenziato quando era necessario. Non è necessario dar loro la possibilità di poterlo fare in modo indiscriminato.
Io sono incazzato. Perché ho ventidue anni, studio all'università, e se non troverò un lavoro nessuno mi darà un mutuo. Non me ne frega niente di avere tanti soldi, ma vorrei una famiglia, dei figli. E una casa, dove poter passare del tempo con loro, dove crescerli. Se mi assumono a tempo indeterminato e poi mi possono licenziare facilmente, chi mi darà un mutuo? E chi lo darà alle persone ancora meno fortunate di me, che non possono nemmeno contare su qualche possibile aiuto dei genitori? Prima rendano il sistema dale da garantire un gran numero di assunzioni. Poi rendano più facili i licenziamenti. Facciano le liberalizzazioni. Levino di torno tutta questa burocrazia. Aprire un blog è la cosa probabilmente più facile che si possa fare in Italia. Sarebbe bello se fosse così anche per un'impresa. Sarebbe ancora meglio se Mario Monti si rendesse conto che sta mettendo nei casini due generazioni, i giovani e i meno giovani. Tutta gente che paga le tasse (o le vorrebbe pagare, se non ha lavoro...) e che non ne può più.
Etichette:
art 18,
Art. 18,
Articolo 18,
Governo,
Mario Monti,
Monti,
Riforma art 18
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