Giorgetti and the fiscal currency explained to the Lega

He has to reiterate it in clear words, after having already said it but in a more allusive tone a few days ago. “The idea that the tax credit is essentially money has passed into the collective imagination. This is not ”, says Giancarlo Giorgetti. And its clarity is appreciable. However, we must hope that the first to receive the message are the parliamentarians of his own partyor, those who in the past legislature, every time Mario Draghi envisaged changes to the abomination of the Superbonus, took sides in solidarity in defense of the rights to be able to circulate tax credits without limits, always and forever. And it is not just a belief of the past, for the men of the League. Last Wednesday, just in reply to his Minister of Economy, the deputy Alberto Gusmeroli, new president of the Productive Activities Commission, insisted: “We cannot hide the fact that there is a huge, current problem of the risk of bankruptcy of many companies that have drawers very full taxes and scarce liquidity “. With that, drawing precisely that parallelism between tax credit and money that Giorgetti so vigorously stigmatizes. As if, in short, the tax credits were really going to constitute a sort of compensation for cash shortages. When it was Draghi who criticized this perverse mechanism of the Superbonus, the Northern League’s objection was that “a central banker does not know the real economy”. Who knows if Giorgetti, for Gusmeroli and his associates, is a “man of the people” enough to be taken seriously.

• Valerio Valentini

• Born in L’Aquila, in 1991. Grew up in Collemare, up there in the Apennines. Classical high school diploma, degree in modern literature at the University of Trento. Al Foglio since 2017. I wrote a book, “Gli 80 di Camporammaglia”, published by Laterza, with which I won the Campiello Opera Prima award in 2018. I like good books and good cinema. And cycling, everything, even the bad one.