Citizenship income has blatantly failed on active policies
There poverty in Italy it is still widespread. We are talking about a poverty, both absolute and relative, of people who do not have essential and primary resources such as food, water, house, clothes, medicines, but also of those who, although not in a condition of absolute poverty, still cannot to have a dignified life and to take advantage of all the possibilities and services available in a modern community. For the sake of calm reflection, it is good to remember that 1.8 million families (about 5 million people) are in absolute poverty and 3 million families (about 9 million individuals) are in relative poverty.
Faced with these numbers, but above all for the reasons that I will try to explain in simple words, it cannot be said that “citizenship income is like state methadone“Nor that”the basic income has overcome poverty“.
On the one hand, it would mean not understanding that in many situations it is not a question of listless people sleeping on the sofa but of men and women who, especially in large families in urban centers, adapt to any job in order to pay the bills and give a plate. pasta to their children who face the challenges of life with a significant competitive disadvantage compared to other peers; on the other hand, it would mean not wanting to admit that the citizenship income has blatantly failed on active policies.
If it is true that the Basic income, on average about € 500, competes with stable work, it means that the latter, especially in the trade sector, is paid little and before approaching a social fracture it is good to intervene promptly on the tax wedge, both to put more money in the pockets of workers, both to relieve the company cost for entrepreneurs.
For these reasons, the citizenship income quickly needs a coupon, because as initially conceived it did not achieve the ambitious and humanitarian purposes for which it was designed, despite having cost about 19.6 billion since its entry into force in 2019, to which another 7.7 billion could be reached in 2022.
It must absolutely be reviewed and also linked to reform of social safety nets, which is slow to be prepared, and above all subjected to a severe control that totally excludes the possibility that it will be provided to those who are not entitled to it. However, it cannot be abolished, because it is a measure of civilization that, during the pandemic, has helped those who have suffered in silence with dignity instead of manifesting like those few novaxes that continue to disturb and towards which it seems to me there is too much attention.
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