Meloni: ‘Record tax evasion recovery, the State is not an enemy’

“Of the results” that we have obtained since we have been in government, those that have given us the most satisfaction are the economic data, with the “record number of employed people”, “stable contracts” and female employment: ” yesterday was March 8″ and was “one of the brightest”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this at the signing of the agreement for development and cohesion with the Umbria Region.

The prime minister also spoke about “real family income”, citing OECD data: “In Italy, it grows by 1.4%, seven times more than the average of other countries”. And “in Italy the risk of poverty decreases by two points”, she added, citing data from “two days ago”.

After a joking aside – “we have been in government for 14-15 months, but to me it seems like 15 years -” Meloni underlined that “we do not live in a nation made up of 20 monads” and this is why a “strategy” is necessary national adding: “We are capable of strengthening a territory if it is linked to everything else”.

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‘Recovery of record tax evasion, the State is not the enemy’

“Last year the revenue agency certified an increase in revenue of 26 billion euros. When you don’t disturb and, on the contrary, try to lend a hand to those who produce the wealth, the State benefits.” “In the same year, 2023, the revenue agency also tells us that we had a record for recovering tax evasion. An extraordinary figure”, said the prime minister.

Meloni spoke of “a different approach”, “collaborative” and “non-vexatious, for which the State risks becoming an enemy”. And he added: “If you’re in difficulty I’ll come to you, if you want to cheat me then I have to be decisive in my reaction.”

“The State is our family business – he explained – if we don’t understand this we will never solve our problems. We are the only nation in the world in which the saying ‘once the law has been made, the deception has been found'” exists” and therefore “the The problem is to change the cultural setting and understand that we are all part of the same destiny. So when you bypass the State, you are also bypassing yourself.”

‘I don’t aim for immediate consensus on what is right’

“In my opinion, the fact that you don’t save yourself and that you don’t waste resources, you don’t put your interests before those of the nation, before those of the Italians, you are no longer interested in consensus than what it is, can make a difference in the credibility of the institutions. right because on the
long distance people will understand what is right, more than immediate consensus. I made this bet. Maybe I’ll lose it, but for now it seems like I’m not losing it,” said the prime minister.

“I have always invested in Italians – he explained, responding to a question from ANSA on this first period of government – even when they said there was no possibility of growing, of doing better. I think that this nation is made up above all of lots of respectable people who just want to see that the institutions and politics are giving it their all. Then there’s when it’s going better and when it’s not going well. And there’s also when you make mistakes, because we’re all human”

‘The State cannot afford not to let 70 billion reach the ground’

“We are making almost 240 million euros available to this territory, resources that will be used to finance 36 strategic projects”, allowing us to “activate investments of 280 million euros or more”, said Meloni, speaking at the signing of the agreement for
development and cohesion with the Umbria Region.

The “cohesion and development funds”, he underlined, are “extraordinarily important and we discovered that in the old 2014-2020 programming” of “126 billion, 46 had been spent. A nation like Italy, which has problems of gaps has several, the State cannot afford not to have 70 billion reach the ground.”

From here, Meloni explained that “some management differences” have been introduced compared to the past: we finance projects
proposed by the Regions and shared by the government. This made me angry.”

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