Fausto Carioti
The slaps remedied in recent weeks by the political class (yesterday, to say, he was arrested for corruption, the former mayor of Gallipoli, incidentally Dalem) have already produced results: the salaries of ministers and MPs will be cut by at least 5%. Too many politicians eager to rebuild the image, now promise that you are unbalanced in the wake of investigations and prosecutions and the financial crisis, and pulling back would be embarrassing even for the standards to which we are accustomed. And if a minister close to Prime Minister as a wise and Franco Frattini assures Free (in the interview published on Sunday) that soon the proposal of the pay cut will be taken up by Silvio Berlusconi, is to take the case seriously. Even if, however, that things are going really well, remains to be seen how far it should go. Should cut the salaries of local politicians as well? And above all it is right to reduce payroll even more fertile in the public sector, like those of magistrates, grand high commissions and state offices, including the president of the Republic? Yes
And not for the savings that such interventions can produce. But why when you ask one more sacrifice to civil servants, who is preparing to retire and to all taxpayers, the worst mistake you could make is to confirm the impression that Italy is still one told by Joseph Prezzolini in 1921: a country divided between "smart" and "idiots," in which "if one pays the admission fee by train, does not come free to the theater, not a Commander uncle, a friend of his wife and powerful in the judiciary, in Public Education, etc.., tax agent declares his true income, he is a fool. " That things are still so out of the question, ma se per una volta i furbi evitassero di darlo a vedere, i fessi apprezzerebbero. E buona parte dei furbi, ancora oggi, occupa cariche - non necessariamente elettive - nei livelli alti e medio-alti delle istituzioni. Dove è vero che gli stipendi non raggiungono quasi mai gli standard del settore privato, ma è vero anche che si hanno garanzie non paragonabili a quelle dei posti di lavoro esposti ai rischi del mercato.
Ad esempio: quando Umberto Bossi avverte che anche i magistrati devono «dare una mano», perché il loro stipendio è legato a quello dei parlamentari, dice una cosa di banale buon senso. Ma il sindacato delle toghe gli risponde gridando all’ennesimo «attacco all’indipendenza dei giudici». E perché Why? The salaries of judges ranging from € 37,400 to 122,300 gross. Thanks to the extra-judicial assignments, then, many gowns can take home the highest figures. Clearly, then, that at lower levels from scratch, there is nothing but the highest rate of fat to be removed there is a lot, and do not have anything outrageous in a time like this.
Much the same for senior civil servants. Freezing increases the state, including those who earn € 1,400 a month, as the government is thinking of doing, it is economically foolish and morally offensive if not accompanied by more drastic measures on the salaries at the top. Like those of university leadership, traveling about € 97,800 a year, or department heads of the ministries (€ 236,300). It is not clear why the RAI public corporations where the board members receive between 195,000 and 400,000 euro per year, should stay out of the chopper. The comparison with rival Mediaset, then, does not justify the cachet of some drivers, journalists and other times more or less known. Mediaset, in fact, is a publicly traded company that generates profit, and if it does not is a problem of its shareholders, Rai, however, forced to their sponsors - the taxpayers - not only off any coupon, but calls for an annual action to cover the inevitable gap.
say that such cuts would lead in case a minimum of 27 billion looking for the minister Giulio Tremonti misses the real point of the matter. Or that politics - particularly in times of difficulty - even living symbols of the examples it gives to citizens. They say that Berlusconi has understood: we will soon see if it is true. Precisely for this reason it is important that a clear signal arrives from Quirinale. If all politics reduces its budget by 5%, it is right that the same is true for the budget of the Presidency of the Republic (228 million euro per year) and for the salary of Giorgio Napolitano (€ 218,000). And since nobody in government and in parliament has the courage to say so outright, but merely to call for cuts to the payroll 'Senior', would be the case that Napolitano would make a step forward, asking for - his first - a similar deduction: its moral and political authority could make such contagious.
As the League, which became the flagship of this campaign of wage moderation in politics, if not actually taking place just a window dressing, put just one of the things to make the abolition of the provinces, starting with those useless as stated in the program written by Berlusconi government and accepted by Bossi. Any administrator of the Northern League will be without employment, but also the respect of such commitments is estimated that membership in the category of 'smart'.
© Free . Posted May 18, 2010.
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