The third anti-crisis package does not hold surprises compared to the previous ones, by persevering in actions aimed at the groups most shaken by the persistent rise in prices. An inflation that feeds on food, which leads to a reduction in VAT for basic products and a total exemption from the tax, for six months, for basic foodstuffs. In turn, direct aid to lower-income families is approved, as well as other measures in the field of energy and housing rental. The new actions represent a cost to the public coffers of 10,000 million euros, part of which is expected to enter with the new taxes on banking, energy and large estates. A) Yes, Overall, the government’s action appears sensible: The most fragile groups are helped and those who have the most and can benefit in the new inflationary scenario are taxed. However, some dysfunctions hinder the goodness of the successive anti-crisis packages. Parked as impossible, in the current political dynamics, the desirable income pact, has opted for the incessant trickle of measures, when a global approach would have been more effective to the effects of the war in Ukraine which, in turn, would incorporate greater attention to the productive sectors. On the other hand, regarding the new taxes, the most favored should be required to pay a higher contribution, but once again a more sophisticated approach is lacking. On the contrary, the easy and politically profitable solution of targeting exclusively banking and energy companies has been chosen. In any case, in the current scenario of social fracture and political radicalism, everything that is done will be automatically disqualified. So, let’s stay with the fact that what is approved by the government is not bad. Although poorly tuned in his interpretation, the score is correct. Which is not little.
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