cries for the defeat of the beloved Pis - her Polish partner - herfinance minister does not laugh, due to the empty coffers, just 24billion to be redistributed, so much so that the Council It took theMinisters an hour to approve it. The fulcrum is made up of the 15billion allocated to cutting the tax wedge, more than 5 billion for therenewal of administration contracts and around 3 billion for healthcare.To raise the large amount of funds foreseen by the financial measure,the government will resort to 2 thirds of the extra revenue and theremaining part of around 8 billion to spending cuts. A "sacrifice"required of all ministries, "which had to give up various projects andideas", commented Giancarlo Giorgetti. "A significant spending reviewhas been implemented, of 5% on all discretionary expenditure, (readlinear cuts) except regions and local authorities".Tax wedge and reduction of IrpefThe reduction of the tax wedge - however limited to just one year - hasbeen madeaffecting social security contributions and is without coverage;therefore, on the one hand it creates future debt which translates intofewer resources for social security, on the other it inevitably reducesthe resources allocated to services and therefore affects the indirectwages of workers. It follows that the Government plays the game of threecards: with one hand it gives a higher salary directly to the pay slipand with the other it reduces services, reducing funding for socialspending or leaving it unchanged, leaving inflation to do the trickrest. The mechanism is well understood if one only looks at theresources for healthcare, formally increased by 3 billion, but inreality decreased, if one looks at the relationship between spending andGDP and takes inflation into account.More than 4 billion will be allocated to the consolidation of the firsttwo brackets of the Irpef tax. The cut will be 6% for those with anincome of up to 35 thousand euros and 7% for those who do not exceed 25thousand euros a year, while the new rates will be 23% up to 28 thousandeuros, 35% between 28 and 50 thousand, and 43% above 50 thousand.Furthermore, the tax exemption, defined as a no tax area, for incomefrom employment has been extended up to 8,500 euros.Deductions and minimum taxA cut to deductions of 260 euros has been envisaged, which concernspayments to non-profit organisations, parties and the third sector, forthose earning incomes above 50 thousand euros, and a 15% reduction inbusiness tax for those who hire young people , women or formerbeneficiaries of citizenship income. The measure concerns the end of thesubsidy for aid for economic growth (ACE), which was repealed, afterbeing launched in 2011. For multinationals, from 1 January 2024, theglobal minimum tax will be applied at 15% on income made in the Italianmarket. On the contrary, companies that return to Italy after havingrelocated will receive benefits for relocalisation. While for VATnumbers the November advance payment will disappear, to support theliquidity of businesses.Reduction of the Rai license feeThe fee goes from 90 to 70 euros per year, and the levy remains in theelectricity bill, even if the Minister of Finance is considering movingit to the telephone bill to include in taxation those who do without atelevision and use smartphones or tablets to benefit from streamingtelevision programs. The "discount" of the Rai license fee is absorbedby general taxation, and therefore it is a reduction in costs so tospeak: what the taxpayer does not pay directly in the bill, he stillgives to the public broadcaster through other types of payments.PensionsThe government removed the constraint on contributory pensions, whichprevented those in the contributory system from retiring upon reachingage 70 if their allowance did not exceed 1.5 times the social pension.In other words, we move to 104, regardless of Salvini's promises. TheSocial Ape and Women's Option are also cancelled, replaced by theFlexibility Fund to allow early exit from work at 63 with 36 years ofcontributions for carers, the unemployed, heavy workers and people withdisabilities. The threshold is reduced to 35 years for women and thereis a 100% revaluation of pensions up to 4 times the minimum and for theminimum pensions of those over 75 years of age.Missed promises and the end of the idyll with the betrayed electorateThe finance law in 2023 is the first to be truly attributable to thisgovernment which reveals itself for what it is: the complete disavowalof the electoral promises of the parties that make up the governmentmust be acknowledged. If you look at the measures adopted it becomesclear that the voters were taken for a ride without too muchconsideration and receive from the government's behavior a severe lessonon their availability as gullible people who allowed themselves to bedeceived by those who promised heaven and earth during the electoralcampaign, then letting the mountain give birth to the mouse.Yes, it's true, there is money for a meager contract renewal, but withinflation growing, wages remain low and this while the debate on theminimum wage is stopped and put on a dead end. And then there is alsothe de facto reduction in funding for healthcare, the problems of whichremain completely unresolved. Wanting to eliminate or even just lightenthe problem of waiting lists by encouraging overtime for a staff alreadyexhausted by exhausting work shifts, giving out crumbs of salaryincreases through overtime, paid hard with overwork, means going down acriminal path .The mockery of working mothers then takes on the characteristics of atragic joke: on the one hand there is talk of increasing funding fornursery schools with the aim of making them free for those with at leasttwo children, while little is done because the nursery schools nurserythere are - just look at the programs regarding the PNRR - to understandwhat the problem is. The result is that even where there were freeplaces for kindergartens, there are no kindergartens.They say they want to encourage women to have children, but the measurerelating to the abolition of VAT on early childhood products whichtherefore become more expensive has not been extended. On the otherhand, rewards and recognition are provided for women with more than twochildren; One wonders when the medals with the writing: "My son, I gavebirth to you for my country, not for me!" of fascistic memory.What happens with pensions makes us understand how full of lies the"bridgeman" Salvini is who after having thundered against the Fornerolaw, vowing to want to repeal it, introduces through his minister, rulesthat make it more severe and onerous. In terms of respecting electoralpromises there is nothing to say!There remains a basic observation: do you remember the flood in EmiliaRomagna? well, where did the money promised by the government go? andwho knows anything more about the PNRR?Internal politics and international strategy If therefore the financiallaw tells us that in terms of management of internal affairs the resultsare at least modest and that the government's greatest merit is that ofnot having significantly undermined the accounts, further compromising aburdened situation from a monstrous debt certainly inherited, thecompensations - to justify its existence - should come from foreign policy.Meloni's frenetic activism interested Sunak due to their affinitiesregarding migration policies and their common underdog origins, makingher sad to see the bad luck that her support brought to Vox, with herproclaiming herself a woman , mother and Christian, so much so as toinduce her to provide herself with horns and croissants in the alleys ofNaples to avoid bringing bad luck, he sees her in the confines of herrooms suffering in silence and crying in mourning in front of theelectoral results of Pis.For our part, we wish the Premier ever greater failures, and togetherwith her, to her entire Government; to her voters, many of her, manyGovernments like this, aware that there is no remedy for masochism.The Editorial StaffPier Carlo Masini's volume has just been published,History of Italian anarchists from Bakunin to Berneri, Pisa, BFS, 2023,p. 556.The volume includes the two fundamental works for the history ofanarchism, History of Italian anarchists from Bakunin to Malatesta andHistory of anarchists in the era of the attacks and other writings onthe subsequent period.The volume is fundamental to understand what anarchism is, born on thebasis of anarchist communist ideas and based on class struggle.To find out more and be encouraged to approach the work which can beread very well - despite the thickness of the pages - you can see thepresentation made at the Festival Fino al cuore della revolt on 11August in Fosdinovo by Stefano Gallo, Adriana Dadà and Franco Bertolucci.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt6CnOLXl2YShare on your favorite social network!https://www.ucadi.org/2023/10/21/una-manovrina-piccola-piccola/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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