One wonders if a proposal of this type can be used to rebuild a new identity of the moderate area in our country, the new political formation that should arise from the ashes of the current center-right to oppose (when we vote with the 'Italicum) to Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party. The concept of basic income (which, moreover, would pose many inconveniences if granted only to residents of one or more regions) means, if words have any value, recognizing an annuity, without any compensation, to all citizens in need.
Right or wrong, it is a model of generalized welfare, the opposite of a rational and articulated welfare policy which aims to intervene according to criteria of priority depending on the conditions and circumstances. Perhaps there are no social pensions, carer's allowances, the social rental fund, the numerous initiatives of local authorities which, also through the so-called third sector, have created, for better or for worse, a large number of jobs for the provision of social services? Wouldn't it be more logical, albeit more challenging, to upgrade and perhaps rationalize this already existing network?
A form of generalized welfarism (among other things, could we realistically distinguish between Italian citizens and foreigners residing in our country for various reasons?) is culturally antithetical to an effective government project for dealing with recovery and development. If it were then a matter of a proposal to offer a job to the long-term unemployed to which Maroni looks, one could adopt (although adapting it to the specificity), the already positively tested model of work talent that exists in the Lombardy Region and which imposes on the beneficiaries the acceptance of the pathways and employment offers proposed by the agencies that took charge of them. However, it is better to call things by their proper name to avoid useless confusion or dangerous illusions.
