Bonelli (Avs): Stop arms to Ukraine, "The Jobs Act needs to be revised," and "wealth tax on billionaires." The message is clear: the important thing is to lose.

Maybe it's because the scorching heat clouds people's minds but the message launched last Thursday on "The paper” from the co-founder of grandparents, Angelo Bonelli, seems designed to warn the wider field: "Comrades, the important thing is to lose." Three own goals in a row on crucial issues for the center-left seem like an absolute guarantee of imminent political defeat and certainly frighten the middle class, without which any electoral victory becomes a pious illusion. Bonelli's first own goal is, coincidentally, on Ukraine: "Enough weapons in Kiev and sanctions also for Ukraine”. Think of the joy of Vladimir Putin who in the previous weeks had already received the reassurances of the ineffable Giuseppe ConteBonelli is urging Putin to find a diplomatic interlocutor, but who has so far denied his willingness to participate in peace talks? Wasn't it a certain Putin? But then, the witty writer writes to Il Foglio Michael the Great: “If it is useless to give weapons to Zelensky because (according to the co-founder of Avs) he cannot win, it is useless to give votes to Bonelli because he cannot win the elections”. Then come the proposals of Avs on economic policy: review the Jobs Act and a wealth tax for the richest. But is this a summer blunder, or has there already been a referendum against the Jobs Act in June 2025, promoted by the CGIL, which ended with the humiliating lack of a quorum? Does the left want to lose again, or will it sooner or later recognize that the Jobs Act has had some merit in the growth in employment and the reduction of fixed-term contracts in recent years? Finally, patrimonial, but—Bonelli warns—"only for incomes above two million euros." The goal of greater tax justice is obviously sacrosanct, but the instruments—as has been explained ad nauseam—are completely flawed because the wealth tax is difficult to implement, brings little money into state coffers, and above all, causes the wealthiest to flee abroad and frightens the middle class, who fear the lowering of the two million euro threshold. Does Bonelli want to continue tilting at windmills? Good luck.