Matteo Salvini he has so accustomed us to jokes that taking him seriously is always a gamble. This is always true, 12 months out of 12, but in the summer the leader of Alloy he gets excited and freaks out more than usual. Who does not remember the speech of the fake statesman disguised as a cafonal jester that Salvini made, bare-chested and on the wings of the Mameli Hymn, at the Papeete Beach of Milano Marittima, in August 2019? Then the leader of the League, which ruled with the Five Stars of Giuseppe Conte, was at the peak of success, had 40% of the vote and hoped to provoke a snap election to fill up the votes. He ended up beached and since then his consent has been gradually eroded by the cunning one Giorgia Meloni who cut the grass under his feet. Salvini's last weekend appeal to “a major operation by fiscal peace to free millions of Italians held hostage by the tax authorities and turn a blind eye to those with debts under 30 euros” is part of the Papeete series. And, judging by the first reactions of the Melonian wing of the Government ("All taxes must be paid"), he has a good chance of ending up in a new own goal for Salvini. The economist brilliantly explained why yesterday Veronica DeRomanis on the columns of “La Stampa”.
There are at least three reasons for imagining a sensational boomerang from Salvini's "fiscal peace" and which remind us that there are only three ways to finance the loss of revenue from an amnesty operation like the one imagined by the leader of the League, one more unlikely of the other. The first is to finance the amnesty with a tax increase for citizens excluded from the "fiscal peace", i.e. those who already pay taxes: but the Meloni government, which promotes tax reduction, could never embark on a operation that goes in the opposite direction? The second way is to cut expenses (from school, to health and infrastructure): but can you imagine the Meloni government drastically cutting expenses a few months before the European elections? The third way is to increase public debt with the risk of a political crisis caused by the rejection of the markets as happened with Berlusconi in August 2011. But Meloni, who at least in economic policy tries to move in the wake of Draghi, she is not so naive. In the end Salvini will have to resign himself: once again between dream and reality reality will win. With many regards to Papeete.
