he coronavirus, the virus of ignorance and the failure of dementocratic democracy: we will vote in a popular referendum based on demagogy and social envy?
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Pur condividendo ampie parti dell’articolo, sono molto perplesso su altre. Più giro il mondo e più mi si disfano miti su altre nazioni. In Germany, molte cose funzionano, ma ho dovuto accorgermi che spesso ne sopravvalutiamo serietà e accuratezza, senza contare che sono qualche passo avanti a noi sulla strada del disfacimento della civiltà. Svizzeri e Olandesi sono più seri, ma sono ancora più avanti dei Tedeschi sulla strada dello sfascio e accettano qualsiasi cosa che non disturbi il singolo. Moreover, le organizzazioni mafiose si sono radicate bene anche fuori d’Italia. Non sono neanche del tutto d’accordo che le eccellenze siano frutto delle sole loro capacità: ci sono buone scuole un po’ di tutto; il problema vero è che è tutto lasciato alla buona volontà del singolo….
Reverend Father, ho letto con molto interesse e grande attenzione questo Suo articolo. Condivido in toto tanto la Sua lucida analisi della situazione italiana quanto la Sua proposta di soluzione; a powder’ meno il giudizio sulla dittatura franchista e soprattutto sui regimi comunisti in Russia e Cina.
Mi permetto umilmente di farLe notare che Platone non può essere nato nel 348 a.C. e morto nel 428 a.C., semmai l’inverso…
Ultimo tentativo disperato. Manco a farlo a posta, of yesterday, l’articolo di Stromberg su mises.org. E come conseguenza del libero mercato: ” non videbis pecunia mea”. Senza polemica Da un Cattolico
There are many types of evasions, from offshore assets (there is no need to go to Virgin Islands, there are some closer), to complex corporate constructions, up to selling the sandwiches without a receipt.
I understand the resentment towards a people who campicchio of mussels sold in black, but to think that there is more evasion in Italy than abroad is naive; just see for example the statistics on offshore assets. You can see the sandwich without a receipt, the holding company held by a trust in Luxembourg or simply the registered office in New Jersey (USA) no, therefore we tend to take it out on the paninaro. Too bad that the 5 € tax-free paninaro goes to the supermarket to spend the shopping where he pays 22% of VAT and San Daniele ham buys it from the Metro where it pays VAT and puts them back into circulation, subtracting from the state only the differential between VAT + taxes paid by the supermarket (supermarket that margins if a good one 5% on which he pays about a 50% of additional taxes without counting personal income tax and all taxes paid for employees or suppliers etc.. etc.) and what he would have as spending potential himself after paying taxes. If instead you move the dividends to Switzerland….
The only certain thing in Italy is the absolute falsity of the slogan: “if everyone paid taxes, taxes would decrease”. Statistics in hand in the face of an increase in revenue and a decrease in tax evasion, public spending has always increased in a more than proportional way.
A half-communist state could only create a non-subsidiary central system, ineffective e…
Dear Reader,
when I say in my exposition:
"In addition to all this, tax evaders are the main culprits for the increase in the tax burden. Let's clarify the extent of everything in figures: In the 2019, the ministry of finance, has calculated that in our country tax evasion is around one hundred billion euros per year [Report drawn up in 2019 by the Ministry of Economy and Finance]. I can trust you that, being ignorant in mathematics and beyond, I am not able to write this figure, because I don't even know how many zeros it must be composed of?»
It's still …
«[…] And after unexpected crises or emergencies, we discover that the rich have become richer and the poor poorer ".
E’ obviously I'm not referring to the sandwich maker who doesn't hit a receipt, but precisely to the situation of great evasion illustrated by you.
The speech would then be very complex and long to deal with, also because there is evader and evader, for instance: a small business owner looking to do some’ black to avoid an excessive tax burden that would put him in difficulty in paying the salary to his workers, it is certainly not comparable, on an ethical level, moral and criminal law to the great tax evader who bought a yacht with the proceeds of his tax fraud, a Ferrari and a villa with swimming pool that cost ten million euros.
Excuse me father, it wasn't my intention to be too critical. But what I wanted to point out (and I repeat it) it is by assuming the numbers that circulate, evasion in Italy is valid 100 billions of Euros / year.
Good, just yesterday (the latest in a series) this news came out on MF
https://www.milanofinanza.it/news/oltre-2-000-miliardi-riciclati-piovono-forti-vendite-su-tutte-le-banche-europee-202009210943338088
On two banks in six years they have passed 2000 billions recycled. I'm 330 billions a year, more than triple, just yesterday.
Cosa succederà? they will pay 2/3 billions fines the banks and so on, or 1/1000 of the value without touching the holders of those transactions!
The common citizen, caught to escape € 100k, pays at least € 150k in fines and refunds. E’ the difference is evident.
So let the indignation for the 10 millions, but as far as this figure is, for a mere mortal like us, astronomical, it is not yet the zero level of economic immorality.
Below that there is a whole other level made up of real wear, of money made to make more money, not to make the ferrari and the villa with swimming pool that, however messy, they are still wishes “humans”.
It takes MINIMUM to enter Santander private banking 50 millions to invest (only there, only with them), in Citibank I believe they stop at 25Mio and with these values you are the poor man in the club of the rich. Financialization is the real usury
If I can recommend, two books on the subject “the servile state” by Belloc e “Utopia of Usures” by Chesterton.
Altro che pagare le tasse è onesto!!! E’ una truffa. Non si può avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca. Lo Stato moderno è come un bambino posto sulle spalle di un uomo robusto: all’inizio il gigante buono lo porta sulle spalle ma poi il bambino crescendo diventa sempre più pesante fino a diventare adulto e anche obeso. A questo punto il gigante buono cede e collassa. La scuola di economia austriaca allarga le vedute(non quella statalizzata) e per questo propongo i siti di Freedonia, Lord Acton per i cattolici, Von Mises, autori cone Rothbard , per una critica al distributismo il libro di T. Woods “la Chiesa e il mercato” (liberi libri editore). Piombini, Birindelli. E’ un mondo da scoprire!! Lo assicuro a quanti amano la Verità e la razionalità..
It is called avoidance, it's legal, it's perfectly legal. It is not presented on TV
hooded and mean. She is not stigmatized by lessons nor is it explained
in detail. But numerically very relevant and ethically hateful.
Italy is (era, they are destroying everything…) typically a country of
SMEs. The only true multinational we still have is called ENI.
In America and Northern Europe (in intact Germany there are things like Cum-Ex
(https://bit.ly/3cnbg4m) the tweet recently Wirecard (https://bit.ly/35Z7T2m) )
the numerous multinationals have the technical and economic possibilities
1) to maintain handpieces of lawyers and accountants whose task is to
create constructs whose purpose is to evade (all as legal said,eh!)
2) to influence through lobbying on national and international policies
3) to receive and influence the political blessing e (ancora più importante)
media on their work.
But these are great, powerful and to attack them there is a great risk. Whereby
the entrepreneur will always be presented on televisions
“who steals money from the neighbor, evading taxes”, hooded e
in a false atmosphere noir.
I agree with the 1000/100.
Only one shortcoming: the transformation of small delinquent gangs into political under-the-counter operators implemented by the Kingdom of Sardinia to conquer and govern the Kingdom of the two Sicilies.
egregio padre Ariel
I report some news https://www.affaritaliani.it/economia/vaticano-manifestazione-di-alc-troilo-%E2%80%98gualtieri-chieda-l-ici-arretrata-695069.html ,what do you think?
First of all you understand that the title already "The Vatican and ICI to pay" it's rambling and misleading, as is practically the case when the Radicals of Pannella are involved, Bonino &(C). Because it would be like writing "Austria and ICI to be paid" (!?).
Therefore the question does not concern the Vatican in any way, which is a sovereign state, but the Italian Episcopal Conference, which is a body operating on the Italian national territory.
Said this: all religious structures that do not carry out social activities, caritative e assistenziali, they have always paid property taxes, from which only the buildings of worship and the places where social activities take place are exempt, caritative e assistenziali.
Taxes from which not only religious and ecclesiastical institutes dedicated to these activities are exempt, but also the buildings of Arcigay and the LGBT movements as they carry out recognized activities of … public social and cultural interest.
Regarding the much maligned disunity of Italy and the lack of a robust sense of ethics in Italians, I wish to leave the two quotations of Macchiavelli in his work entitled to the moral sensibility of readers ” Speeches on the first decade of Tito Livio”: “… Therefore, we Italians have this first obligation with the Church and with the priests, they have become without religion and bad;..” e “…who sent the Roman court to live in le terre de’ Swiss, which today are peoples who live, and how religion and how military orders,according to the ancients: and it would see that soon they would do more disorder in that province offenders costumes of that court, than any other accident that could arise there at any time”.
Machiavelli's thesis can be explained in the context of the time, who was not a dispassionate observer but a biased man with a very specific political vision, it is at least partial. The Roman Church, reasoning even only in purely human terms, it played a key role in safeguarding and promoting Italian culture and civilization. Although politically volatile and questionable, the popes of the Renaissance did everything in their power to avoid the zeroing of our identity by foreigners (and even just doing their utmost against the Muslim danger is a very high merit). Then the contribution of the Church to the formation of our historical heritage is incalculable, artistic and literary. By working for a cultural and spiritual unity of our people, the Church in fact created the conditions for its future political unity. Then the latter was pursued above all in terms of a willed and spiteful denial of the Roman Catholic identity. I am convinced that this dramatic and foolish caesura contributed not a little to creating a furrow of misunderstanding among many Italians and a state that was immediately felt as a stranger., furrow that still does not seem to be filled.
Thank you Father Ariel for sharing these reflections, which I basically share. Reflecting on the phenomenon of tax evasion (first in Europe by amount evaded per capita) I realized that this peculiarity of Italian behavior is the manifestation of the never resolved conflict between the state and citizens. On the one hand we have a people that does not have (and perhaps since the war he never had) a minimal sense of national identity, of belonging to a community of destiny and perceives authority as an enemy, on the other hand we have a state that does not trust its citizens, and who often treats them as criminals until proven otherwise. This produced normative hypertrophy, which has pervaded every aspect of acting with often incomprehensible rules, contraddittorie, and in fact not applicable, with disproportionate penalties for non-compliance. Returning to the phenomenon of tax evasion, I believe that from an economic point of view it is a false problem, according to the CGA of Mestre in the last 20 tax revenues have increased by 166 billion euros this is a growth of almost the 50% (the 47,4 for accuracy), 3,5 points more than GDP. In fact, the increase in taxation was higher than that of the wealth produced, thus making the Italians "poorer" than they were in 2000. In your opinion, it is only the fault of those who escape or of a hypertrophic state that is unable to redistribute the fiscsle revenue?
dear fabio,
I think we could speak of a “concurrence of fault”, on the one hand as regards the evasion of certain citizens, on the other with regard to the redistribution of tax revenue by the state.
E’ in fact dramatic news of these days: the two assassins who killed the young Willy Monteiro in Colleferro, they benefited with their families from the citizenship income.
This proves, even worse than the inability to redistribute tax revenues, the absence of what should be, I don't mean thorough checks, but precisely the most basic and elementary controls.
Dear Father Ariel, thank you very much for this article. I fully agree when he writes that in a democracy, in order to function, the people must have the utmost respect for the res public, which unfortunately is instead’ completely missing. I am so pleased that you have also emphasized so much the importance and moral value of paying taxes. Even in the Catholic world I see a lot of lightness on the subject of taxes, and unfortunately also in some comments on his articles, all often seasoned with a strange justification for which the payment of taxes is human and not divine law and therefore negligible at will. Apart from the evangelical precept you mentioned, namely the “give to Caesar what it is’ of Caesar” (as if it were an ironic phrase, I do not know…) I never understood how you can evade taxes without somehow lying, that is without declaring a forgery on receipts, and not lying does not seem to me to be human law but it is one of the ten commandments… Thank you, therefore, for analyzing so’ well this problem in his article, in what unfortunately is’ an evil that afflicts all of Italy so much.
Dear Father Ariel, your article is nothing short of illuminating, a history lesson in politics and even in the Italian language.
I am southern but I agree with everything he said.
I have lost my faith, I don't believe in any God, whatever it is, whatever culture it belongs to, a God however told by men, but regardless of this I would still like to have the pleasure of seeing you again in transmission, that is, I am really sorry to have waited in vain to be able to see it in transmission by Paolo Del Debbio for the new edition of “Straight and Reverse” and I trust that you can be a guest as soon as possible, because not only is she very well prepared but she is also very nice.
Coming to his article, to synthesize, it is clear that obviously everything is connected we are all connected, and therefore as the lawyer Alfonso Luigi Marra said, the problem is people, and you have to tell these people, maybe affectionately but you have to tell him that the problem is that it sucks people.
France, presidential republic, has a number of MPs for 100 thousand inhabitants equal to 0,9.
Germany which is a FEDERAL republic has a number of parliamentarians for 100 thousand inhabitants equal to 0,9.
The UK which is a MONARCHY has a number of MPs for 100 thousand inhabitants equal to 1.
Spain which is always a MONARCHY has a number of parliamentarians for 100 thousand inhabitants equal to 0,8.
In Italy which is a PARLIAMENTARY republic they would like a number of parliamentarians for 100 thousand inhabitants equal to 0,6/0,7.
Understand how stupid someone must be to say that the YES in the referendum is right?
Dear Father,
I am not a believer, and believe me, me ne dispiaccio, because I would like to have the gift of faith.
I teach from 35 years of constitutional law in an Italian university and if it permits (otherwise remove this reference) I can say that I had the pleasure of having her among my students when she was a young man and I was a young associate professor. Many years have passed but I always remember his acumen. One day I found out, reading articles and finding his photo in one of them, who had become a priest. Then, one day, we met in Rome, for case, in the circumstance that she remembers well, and we said goodbye after many years.
This article proves, in my opinion, that you were an achievement for the Catholic Church and a loss for the world of law.
Thank you for this lesson which fully deserves to be called lectio magistralis on the philosophy of law and the history of constitutional law..
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