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Franco Bechis
When Giuseppe Conte closed Italy on March 11 the last six days later, on March 17, he approved the Cura Italia decree in the council of ministers with the first 25,000 million euros of aid. There were not many, we know, they arrived very late and proved to be a drop in the ocean of need.
But they were fundamental to give a message to those who were closed: help arrives, grit your teeth that the state is by your side. Those who received 600 euros knew well that they would do little with them, and in the following months they would receive other useful patches at least to stop the bleeding. When in mid-May Italy reopened to live with the virus with those coins in its pocket and the possibility of obtaining loans on special conditions, millions of Italians raised their heads and did not give up. Restaurateurs have transformed and reopened their premises, followed by the owners of bars, pubs and breweries, and like them many other merchants and small and medium-sized entrepreneurs (from hairdressers to owners of beauty centers, gyms, sports centers, taxi drivers, hotels, etc. .). b & b, cinemas, theaters, museums and a thousand other activities). They knew it would be difficult, but they rolled up their sleeves, made the investments required by the protocols imposed by the experts who assist the government, and they tried. Now the shutter is slowly closing with the government without deciding anything, but through the confusing regional ordinances that close the nightlife even in the late afternoon and impose a curfew at different times in the different territories with prohibitions on starting at 9 p.m., 10 p.m., 11 p.m. or at the stroke of midnight as will happen tonight in Lazio.
We do not discuss the reasons for these restrictions, which are decided by passively passing through the contagion curve that seems to have escaped all control. Conte and his ministers took a step back, as if they had nothing to do with what is happening. This is not the case not only because each regional ordinance is discussed and sometimes endorsed by an executive minister, but also because it is the government’s primary responsibility not to have overlooked the contagion curve a second time. Weigh the lack of prevention, the delay in the necessary supplies, the substantial failure of the health emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri who fell behind in all the movements that were essential and managed to fail in most of the purchases. From calls for intensive care to the distribution of pulmonary ventilators for subintensive with instructions only in German that have prevented its test almost everywhere because no one speaks that language in Italy. There is an enormous responsibility of the State in the new health drama in which we have suddenly fallen, but blaming this time the government has washed its hands (not for hygiene) and has left others the responsibility for the partial closures that are emerging as mushrooms. And this time he has not even put ten cents on the plate to compensate those activities that more than others will be affected by the time restriction. It is a very serious and unacceptable mistake at the most wrong moment possible, because now the horizon is very different from this spring: there is no way out nearby, there is no summer around the corner, but there are long months where the grip of the bras could be tightened even more. And if the prospect is only one of worsening conditions, the surrender of thousands and thousands of small businesses will be inevitable with the economic and environmental disaster that it will bring. Not seeing this risk now is irresponsible. This time the 600 euros will not be enough, because Mr. President of the Government, you have in your conscience that you have indebted restaurateurs, owners of bars, pubs, cinemas, theaters, etc. to adapt to the conditions that you have imposed on them to reopen. If today they are closed a little or a lot because they would not be safe, the responsibility falls entirely on those who imposed those protocols and rules: Count first. So after each order we need a decree that fully compensates all the lost turnover due to the new closings and that carries on the shoulders that debt contracted with the illusion of restart that the government had distributed with both hands. Since the prime minister likes to rename decrees with fictitious names, he simply calls it “I reward”, because it is his primary duty to take this step. Don’t invent useless gifts, promises of tax reforms to elevate your image at the polls. This is not the time for tax wedges, but for compensation.
I know that this majority does not understand anything about the damage it does, and that they even have class enemies in these categories in their ranks being slapped. This I witnessed a few nights ago listening on television to Pierluigi Bersani, the greatest enemy of VAT numbers in these twenty years, who accused all these categories of being tax evaders so “take your tax returns from the previous year and see the change this year, we would compensate a little bit. ”Take the turnover of those small and medium-sized companies, which is not profit. Those should be compensated before the closings, not the income of the owners. Because it is with that billing that the employees, suppliers and owners of the walls are paid. With the closures, hundreds of thousands of Italians will get in trouble and on the road. You have to tell them immediately and put that money in in no time. Move!
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