Stop Citizenship Income: “Mandatory courses with 28 billion from EU”

Francesco Filini, MP in the Italian Brethren Chamber, 44 years old, comes from Roman militancy. He started working on the Youth Front until the 1990s at the age of fifteen and met Giorgia Meloni, then president of the Student Movement. They are about the same age and have grown together since then in the idea of ​​contributing to the future of right. There was still the Italian Social Movement, but soon the turning point came in Fiuggi with the birth of the National Alliance. Then Italy’s brothers will rise from the ashes of the Freedom People, but Filini and Prime Minister Meloni have always been companions.

Filini cut her teeth as a councilor and city councilor in Rome, then the leap: in 2018, Giorgia Meloni and Giovanbattista Fazzolari entrusted her with the coordination of the Sisterhood of Italy Research Office, aka Fdi’s think tank.

It is here that the elaboration of the dossiers and political analyzes necessary for positioning the group and updating the ruling class takes place. And the electoral program that brought the “patriots” to the record of preference in the last general elections was always formed there.

Was there a SCT reduction in the program because you were personally interested, or not?

“Never put anything like that on the program, but this is easily verifiable: Giorgia Meloni never talks about reducing excise taxes in all her public appearances and rallies”.

I am quoting from the program, what is meant by “sterility of government energy and fuel revenues and automatic reduction of VAT and excise taxes”?

“Definitely says “sterilization” of VAT and excise taxes and “does not cut”. The term “sterilization” in the economy has a precise meaning, that is, the State decides not to take more than it received in that tax. , The state should not charge more taxes in proportion to the increase in fuel oil. There is sterilization. It is neither a reduction nor abolition of fuel. consumption taxes”.

But will it be possible to consider lowering excise taxes?

“Yes, when the country system grows, so there is more efficiency than we know in recent years, we can implement the part of the program that sees tax cuts, and there may also be a SCT on gasoline, even if it is not ‘explicitly’ written”.

So let’s get out of our minds to see them dwindle soon.

“It is impossible today, especially in light of the repercussions of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine”.

Pensions. According to the INPS report, the system is on the verge of unsustainability by 2050. What is the government’s prescription?

“The pension problem is related to the demographic problem. We are a country where fewer and fewer Italians were born, and that’s what makes the pension system unsustainable.”

So the solution is to have more children?

“We need to move in two directions. One is demographic growth and we have already started to take the first steps towards the family ratio, which is the final target with this budget law. The demographic curve must be reversed and there is only one country in Europe, France, which pays great attention to this, and even has a growing bend.France He implemented very important welfare policies, reintroduced the family division and became a model for me. Follow along. Another is to get Italy back on track, to increase national productivity to make everything more sustainable”.

Basic income. July is the last month, then the subsidy ends. What’s happening?

“It will no longer be given to those who can work and have no dependents, the disabled in the family, small children. A training course will be abolished and offered for them, hopefully this will be implemented through Europe. The social fund is a fund that the European Union has been providing for some time and is not always adequately used by the Regions. it is a fund. This fund allows you to give some kind of basic income where education is. a job, I will offer you a training course through a company and I can also give you a subsidy while you study. So not only paid training but also reimbursement of expenses during training. payment”.

Italian regions where talent is declining (not just in the South)

But does it make sense to have work and job demand? Are we sure they won’t lose their investment?

“All industries need personnel with minimum qualifications. Laying optical fiber, which is an age-old question, I can give an example of the splicers needed. There are companies that have huge funds to put in. Fiber optic heads come out but they can’t find the staff to do this job. But I can give many examples, Think about it, we are the second largest manufacturing country in Europe. There are companies that want to rent.”

How much are we talking about?

“We’re talking about something like 28 billion for Italy alone by 2027. Nine billion has advanced in the last seven years”.

And for whom will income continue to be protected in 2023?

“They are also envisioned for six months of education. More precisely, those whose income is not deducted because they have children to take care of are still asked to enter a work placement program”.

What if he refuses?

“He will immediately lose his basic income”.

This is in 2023. Then from 2024?

“The tool will change. It will become another tool aimed at supporting people who are increasingly experiencing severe difficulties and are unable to work. I am thinking of retirees with very low pensions, especially in serious social situations”.

What tool?

“I don’t know the name yet, but it will be a support where a large part of the funds will be directed towards active labor policies, which have been lacking in the market for citizen income in recent years”.

But will it always be a bonus?

“Yes, the State should help those in serious difficulties. And we plan to help them further to resolve the paradox that causes those in distress to be paid less than those who work all day and sit on the couch or worse, those who do a job in black.” .

Therefore, for the unemployed, you will need to invest more than is invested in basic income.

“We’ll have to see how we get to the next budget manoeuvre, but the idea is to invest more in them and support them better than has been done so far.”

You also promise tax breaks. Like?

“Italy’s wheel of fortune is bureaucracy because it hinders business and investment. It is possible to stimulate the economy by freeing businesses from the game of bureaucracy. So there is more employment and more willingness to pay taxes because black is also the result of very high taxes. It is always wrong to flee, but some have to survive. does that”.

Yes, but there’s also the great escape.

“Very effective is the escape from the so-called ethnic shops. The weight of this undeclared work is also confirmed by the Guardia di Finanza”.

Which numbers?

“We’re talking about a few hundred million a year. It hits twice: the loss of government revenue and the unfair competition it creates. The big smuggler isn’t just ethnic. There are big smugglers, big corporations. succeeding in tax evasion Reducing taxes serves to make everything more sustainable. and the goal is always to hit the big tax evasion”.

And how does the fight against ethnic shops work?

“There will also be remote checks on certain types of activity. Clarifications are asked when something is inconsistent and if these are not exhausted, the Guardia di Finanza will continue to close the VAT number. However, it can be reopened against a surety that the trader must present”.

But isn’t there a risk of being discriminated against a certain type of trade?

“But it’s for everyone. It’s not for any particular category or nationality.”

It’s okay to cut taxes, but do you have the money?

“If there was money, we would have done the maneuver anyway. There was no such availability this time. Now we must work to move on to the next maneuver with more resources to lower taxes. To have more resources, companies need to reduce bureaucracy, everything we sincerely wrote in the program and partially already mentioned in the latest budget. We need to invest in something, for example, the introduction of tax exemptions for hiring under-35s and basic income earners.