The Bocconians Boeri and Perotti pamper the tax system made in Pd
What Bocconi economists, Tito Boeri and Roberto Perotti wrote in the newspaper Repubblica, commenting on the tax proposal of the Pd secretary, Enrico Letta
I would not want Enrico Letta's chest to swell up to explode when seeing so many economists, as well as openly left-wing politicians, who laugh the more they think they can make the rich cry, rush to his aid in the campaign he has undertaken to increase withdrawals. inheritance tax. Last, in order of time, Bocconi professors Tito Boeri and Roberto Perotti arrived today on Repubblica , which originally did not seem very convinced of the sortie of the secretary of the Democratic Party in an interview in supplement 7 of Corriere della Sera .
They have even written about a "taboo" finally broken by Nicola Zingaretti's successor to the Nazarene, even at the cost of getting an annoyed reaction from Prime Minister Mario Draghi, convinced that it is not yet time to ask for more, rather than give to the Italians: a Draghi who also for this reason obtained the clothing of a Sun King, including the wig, in a newspaper that still considers him as a usurper, unjustly succeeded the meritorious Giuseppe Conte at Palazzo Chigi. Which now, poor fellow, has been destined to regulate the traffic of the grillini inside and outside the 5 Star Movement.
The two Bocconians in a rush of objectivity, after many doctrinal and political acknowledgments to the new secretary of the Democratic Party, considered to be of a good Einaudian school, recognized that "there are major technical obstacles" in his path such as "the disparity of cadastral values between different areas of Italy, the problem of the possible liquidity of the heirs, the treatment of donations made in life to evade the tax, and obviously evasion ", not to mention the risk of" preventing small entrepreneurs from leaving the company to their children " . “But these are problems that, if you want, can be overcome. And indeed a succession tax would provide a further incentive to take action to resolve them ”, wrote Boeri and Perotti. Which is a bit like thinking and saying that a disease can also be business because it activates the doctor to treat it, rather than play cards.
But what are we talking about, distinguished and dear professors? Which Enrico Letta's proposal, in particular, do we want to discuss? In fact, even at this level of academia and competence, we continue to ignore the fact that the secretary of the Democratic Party has begun to put higher taxation on an asset value of more than one million euros, equal to a couple of apartments, on the political scale. or a little more, to then speak or let his interpreters speak for five million euros, that is five times as much. Which are obviously not the same thing, also in terms of possible coverage for the ambitious project that the secretary of the Democratic Party has set out to guarantee a "dowry" of ten thousand euros each for about half of the eighteen-year-olds, on the presumption that the the other half does not need it, or is not deserving of it for social reasons.
Here we continue to do politics, to discuss, to put on and remove the famous flags that are spoken of with some annoyance at Palazzo Chigi and the Quirinale, in the most complete indeterminacy or confusion, betting on the possibility of making fun of rather than convincing the interlocutors. Which is not a serious way of behaving, even if they lend themselves to reasoning about it, fine professors, emeritus and not.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/i-bocconiani-boeri-e-perotti-coccolano-il-fiscalismo-made-in-pd/ on Tue, 25 May 2021 06:56:41 +0000.