Winston Churchill said that "when a nation tries to tax itself to achieve prosperity, it is as if a man stood up in a bucket and tried to lift himself by the handle".
The reasoning, of course, is flawless, but not all of them, when for convenience, when for sinister opportunism, they seem to want to pay attention to it.
And therefore they end up always trying again, relying on the "distraction" of those who do not have the useful tools to understand the conspiracies of a perverse political action that tends to implement discontent, pandering to it, to self-finance itself and guarantee itself the minimum space of survival.
The events of the last few days demonstrate this.
Although it was not formally put to the vote of the members of the executive in the control room, and given the opposition expressed by Lega, Forza Italia and Italia Viva, as well as the perplexities expressed by the exponents of the 5 Star Movement, there seems to be no agreement , as in fact, was lacking for the tax amendment to the Maneuver: therefore no agreement was reached on the "solidarity contribution" to be charged to incomes above seventy-five thousand euros.
In essence, it would have been a question of making a laughable withdrawal of about 20 euros per month from the savings of the wealthiest citizens to support (so to speak) those who were below that income threshold and help them to cope with the looming dear bills. Nothing quaestio, if only it were not for that couple of gruesome basic distortions that lead us to qualify, in the too reductive terms of inadmissibility, the work of the one who, with the passing of the months, has revealed himself (but basically we have always known this) to be an authentic "plastic" Premier (to paraphrase the words contained in a famous text by Carmen Consoli): the one for which the people must paradoxically self-finance themselves in times of difficulty, and not only; the other for which being modestly wealthy in a narrow territorial and economic context such as the Italian one constitutes a sin to be expiated rather than a merit to be encouraged; the further one for which the Government, despite Mario Draghi, absolutely nothing intends to put in place, and / or can put in place, to counter the arrival of the so-called "dear bills" at this point inevitable, if not to pretend to show compassionate closeness to the "poor" by placing a false contribution on the "rich" in order to be, that same contribution, infinitely modest in its amount in order to be able to rise to concrete support.
