Government, over 13 billion in tax cuts and bills. But Schlein speaks of “persistence”

Over thirteen billion euros allocated in four months to families with lower incomes. This is what the Meloni government implemented for the most disadvantaged families to sustain their purchasing power. That’s over three billion a month, including payroll tax breaks, account subsidies, and other support. And yet the left talks of “insufficient bonuses”, of “bluffs”, of “unacceptable lies”. So much so that the Democratic Party announces that it will take to the streets together with the CGIL. Maurizio Landini says he is also evaluating the attacking option. In practice, a protest against the thirteen billion allocated by the government to less favored families from January until today. The accounts are done soon. With the most recent budget, the executive allocated a large amount to cover the high bills in the first quarter of this year: 21 billion in total for families and companies. The portion made available to families amounted to 2.5 billion. Money used to finance the energy social bonus. Firstly, the public of low-income families who could access the recognized discount on electricity and gas costs was expanded, raising the Isee limit from 12 thousand to 15 thousand euros.

Still in the maneuver, around 430 million subsidies were awarded for the purchase of the first home for young couples under 36 years old. Another half a billion was set aside for the purchase of food and basic needs, 117 million for increased parental leave. In addition to new features to increase the single allowance. Altogether, including measures to pay bills, they earn 4 billion. The last budget law also provided for an initial intervention in the tax burden, confirming the one already made by Draghi. In fact, the Meloni government established a cut of 3 percentage points up to 25 thousand euros in revenues and 2 percentage points in the range of 25 to 35 thousand euros. This line alone was financed with 4 billion. The subsequent cut of another 4 percentage points (still below 35 thousand euros), established with the labor decree approved on May 1 and in force from July to December, cost the same amount: another 4 billion. Thus, the tax reduction on labor from January until today reaches 8 billion.

Finally, reference should be made to the decree-law approved at the end of March, which extended the social subsidy for electricity and gas for another three months, until June. Thanks to the fall in the cost of energy, it was possible to allocate fewer resources: 405 million. Not forgetting, however, another billion euros that the government has provided as a contribution to offset the heating costs that Italians will face from October to December. If we add up all these headings, they add up to 13.4 billion euros. Money that, as we have seen, serves to reduce taxes for less well-off workers and help the poorest segments of the population to face the cost of living. However, Democratic Party Secretary Elly Schlein takes a starkly negative view of what the government has done: “You don’t understand this fury against workers and poverty,” she said. A sentence pronounced just yesterday when Istat certified an employment rate of 60.9%, “the highest ever recorded in Italy”, underlined Giorgia Meloni, “the result of the climate of confidence perceived by companies in these first six months of government”.