Berlusconi: no miracle, more taxes

Berlusconitaxes Silvio Berlusconi is fully recovered and, without visible signs on the face, is back in the political arena. He clarified that there will be no tax cuts, as his party has always promised, because "the current crisis does not allow any possibility of lowering taxes." But it seems like yesterday when he stated (smiling at the cameras) "the crisis is over" and announced only two rates: to 23% and 33%.

So his promises were fake. Because it's so easy to promise something: so he gets headlines in newspapers and, after a while, he can always says that someone had misunderstood. The Prime Minister during the press conference after the first Council of Ministers in 2010 added: the government will point to a "simplification of the entire tax system, for which - he added - I hope we'll take just a year." So it's easy to understand that simplification, then, is very difficult to arrive before the next year. "The current situation of public debt will cost, only in interests, 8 billion per year. In this situation- emphasizes the premier - is out of question to think about a tax cut. "
So while the economy minister, Giulio Tremonti, aims "a major change in the tax system" and says that now is not as effective and it is not so much right (but who should change it if not the one who is in government?), the president of the Council must begin to think of new slogans to be used in next elections. "I won't use in this campaign for the regional and administrative elections promises of tax cuts" - said Berlusconi. His party will therefore focus on something else without being able to boast of cuts on taxes as one of the results obtained until now.
Tremonti immediately came to the rescue by declaring in an interview that our economic phase is very complicated because "we have the third debt in the world and not the third-largest economy."

Strange that until a few days ago, they said the economic crisis was completely ended. But it is not surprising that even the election promise on lighter taxes has gone into oblivion. Because it's since 1994, (when 16 years ago Berlusconi "took the field"), that the prime minister makes promises on taxes withouth keeping it. So a few days ago, an article by Sergio Rizzo on Corriere della Sera reminded many forgetful Italians all the commitments made and not respected by the premier. In his first campaign Silvio Berlusconi proposed a single rate of 33% for all with the exemption for the "poor" (not further defined). But he did nothing about it. Then there was the contract signed with the Italians in 2001, before Bruno Vespa when the premier proposed two rates, at 23 and 33% (as a few days ago). Income tax reduction seemed it should start in 2003 but the enabling law remained unapproved until 2005 and then expired without ever becoming a legislative decree. Apparently in Parliament there were major problems to be addressed. In 2006, the right is saved from not respecting its promises only thanks to the victory of Romano Prodi but, then, in March of 2008, Berlusconi, back to the government, announced: "We will introduce the family quotient by taking resources from tax evasion." But the return of capital from abroad wasn't such a good fortune, indeed there was a decline in revenue in recent months with public expenditure which has continued to rise.
So the crisis is coming back in Prime Minister speeches and in times of crisis, you know, you tighten the belt and hope in the future. Then the months pass and someone come back with promises and cyclically also with amnesia: not only the one of Prime Minister but also of many Italians.