"Giuseppe Conte has shown remarkable transformism", but to vote for his confidence in Parliament it is essential that he announces in Parliament "the need to examine uncomfortable, unpopular and often eluded issues without prejudice, but that all those who look at Italy from outside they know how to be inescapable”. Who says it is the former prime minister and now life senator, Mario Monti, in an intervention on the Corriere della Sera yesterday which, not by chance, is titled "The conditions for saying yes to the government".
But what are the conditions that Monti sets to vote in favor of Conte? They are mainly three:
- the reduction of social inequalities;
- tax reform;
- the development of competition.
In words, of course, everyone will agree, but the real litmus test of the Government's intentions will once again be the facts. Above all, the second of the three points indicated is the one that strikes the most, because Monti, in wishing for a broad tax reform, endorses the recent positions of the Bank of Italy and it is spent in favor of a property tax. The former prime minister argues that the tax reform, in addition to simplifying the tax system and safeguarding competitiveness, should tackle "without prejudice in any direction issues that are considered taboo only in Italy and that all cowardly parties do not even dare to pronounce: ordinary wealth tax, inheritance tax, tax on real estate and updating of the cadastre, tax on labour, etc.". Monti insists in particular on the assets and writes that in this regard we could use, as a starting point, the parliamentary hearings held recently, in particular that - meticulously not subversive, but which has no taboos - by Giacomo Ricotti of the Bank of Italy , who declared in Parliament that a discussion on assets is now "appropriate" and explained all the implications depending on whether the tax concerns real estate or financial assets.
We may wonder whether the timing of the introduction of a tax such as property tax which, beyond the revenue actually produced, has a high symbolic value, is the right one or not, but after the intervention of the Bank of Italy and that of Mario Monti the discussion seems cleared through customs.
