The populist laxities between abuses, evasions and citizen’s income
Ischia and surroundings: abuses, amnesties and abuses (not only official). Damato's Scratches
I have confessed, even before a police commissioner or prosecutor physically resembling Marco Travaglio, of little, but very little sympathy for the politician Giuseppe Conte. Not towards the lawyer, it doesn't matter if he belongs to the people or to others in particular, due to the respect I owe him – call him opportunistic – as a colleague of my, indeed our, publishers. Don't laugh, please. I mean it.
COUNT GUILTY IN ISCHIA?
And yet, not out of convenience but out of conviction, not out of sympathy – I repeat – but out of professional honesty, having written about politics for a lifetime, and not at all short, I consider the more or less summary trial that the opponents have improvised against the former president dishonest of the Council for that damned article 25 of a decree on the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa , in 2018. It allowed the faster completion of old practices for the amnesty of even older building abuses in Ischia. Some of which, perhaps, may have put their even infinitesimal hand in the avalanche of water and mud that has just tragically brought the island back to the front pages of Italian and even foreign newspapers. And that even prompted the too icy president Emmanuel Macron, at least in the eyes of his critics, to make a phone call of solidarity and reconciliation – hopefully – to the new Roman premier Giorgia Meloni after the misunderstanding, let's call it that, about the migrants who landed once much in a French port by the rescue ship Ocean Viking.
THE HISTORICAL ABUSES
No sir, if you want to try Conte, you have to bring flowers of other living and deceased politicians to memory. And not only for building abuses and related amnesties, all designed to gather together electoral consensus and useful income to put some money in the ever-suffering public accounts, but also for those that I take the liberty of considering, even at the cost of seeming provocative to you, their close relatives. They are, in the most spontaneous order that comes to me, tax evasion and income – in the plural – of citizenship. Matter, the latter, with all the abuses that come out every other day as well, often in the folds of investigations into other crimes, attributable to the more general category of populism on demand. In which Conte, paradoxically, for electoral and political convenience, would also have an interest in remaining alone in the metaphorical dock, so much so that he has already organized a first protest demonstration against the cuts planned by the new government, but where it would not be right to leave him alone, still once.
BETWEEN AMENDMENTS AND INCOME
To basic income, in the singular, like an ointment to spread on the scourge of poverty, or even – in the balcony imagination of Luigi Di Maio in 2018 as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister, together, of Labor and Economic Development – as the secret weapon for “the eradication of poverty”; to the basic income, I was saying, almost everyone has given their contribution of appreciation and even collaboration. I am thinking of Matteo Salvini's Northern League members, participants in the first Conte government, of Enrico Letta's Democratic Party, a participant in the second Conte government, naturally opposed to calling it into question, but also of Silvio Berlusconi, always ready to specify the limits of any corrective action and to recognize the good purposes of the measure at the time desired by the grillini.
AMENDMENT IN HISTORY
My good friend Marcello Sorgi in the guise of an even more equipped and professional historian than another good friend of mine like Paolo Mieli, has just gone back to La Stampa even to 119 after Christ to find in the emperor Hadrian the progenitor of the condonists – let's call them that – of our times and those attributable to the so-called first Republic. Conte can thus find himself, frankly I don't know how willingly or patiently, with the late Mariano Rumor, Giovanni Spadolini, Bettino Craxi, Giulio Andreotti, and the living Lamberto Dini and Berlusconi, all finished in more or less oval effigy in an inside gallery, always, of the press .
EVADERS ELECTORS
To close, allow me a few words on a proposal just formulated in Repubblica by Giovanni Moro, son of the unforgettable and unforgettable Aldo, against the tax evaders who so indignant about the Truth Maurizio Belpietro: take away their right to vote, active and not only passive . But look, Giovanni, that tax evaders, for me also close relatives of building squatters and others courted by ambivalent populisms, already don't care about elections by themselves by not participating in them. It is no coincidence that the abstentionists have long been the real, I fear unsurpassed majority party in Italy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/storia-abusi-edilizi-evasioni-redditi-cittadinanza/ on Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:46:18 +0000.