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Sex, drugs and parliament.

In previous post talked about how the Italian government was trying to stop taxpayers avoid paying taxes, and as requested by the church to help him in this task, and the response of one of its representatives. This response highlighted and all instances of the Italian state was engaged in wasting public money in different ways. Among the unnamed priest in question is the payment of salaries of members of parliament.

parliamentary Italy has the most expensive in Europe, who have a basic salary of 9,980 euros per month, roughly the annual amount of my scholarship. The monthly salary of these people can be broken down as follows (Source: 1 and 2 in Italian):

1. Parliamentary Indemnity: € 5,486.58
2. Representation Expenses: € 4,003.11
3. reimbursement of expenses required to maintain contact with voters: € 4,190
4. Reimbursement for travel from residence to airport close to catch a flight to Rome: from € 3,324.70 (for distances below 100 km) and € 3995.10 (for distances greater than 100 km) (quarterly payment)
5. Reimbursement for telephone: € 3,098.73 (annual)
6. are exempt from paying tolls as both air tickets, sea or rail within the Italian territory.
   

You see, the Italian parliamentarians enjoy a number of privileges that put them well above the average citizen. They have not only high wages, but a series of perks that ease life incredibly. Keep these numbers in mind as I relate the title of this post with its contents, as these numbers are important to the end of this story.

Sex and drugs: Cosimo Mele enters honorable.

last July 29 the newspapers announced that a prostitute had ended in the emergence of the Hospital "San Giacomo" in Rome from an overdose of cocaine after spending a night of sex, drugs and alcohol with a parliamentary background ¹ and a colleague.

The lady, a young Italian woman of 29, had called an ambulance saying he felt awful, he was dying. Rushed to hospital, where it is saved, begin investigations to try to establish the causes your state. It invites his partner to the police station where he is interrogated and his version compared to that of the victim. Both agree (Source: 3 )

July 30, the newspapers reveal the identity of the MP: Cosimo Mele, a member of the UDC (Union of center) originating in Brindisi (Puglia). He himself admits the facts, but says it knows who else has used the girl to feel bad. He says he went to sleep, and did not realize how bad it was the girl. It is at this point starting other investigations related to drugs in the room of the hotel where the incident occurred, who brought them. Rep. maintains that it was the same girl, he was the dark about everything. She, on the other hand, argues that it was he who provided the drug. At this point it is unclear which of the two was the one who brought the cocaine into the room. As I said above link, the thing was a totally private until such time that started to trace the source of the drug (Source: 4 , 5 ).

The scandal prompted the resignation of the parliament, and various reactions ranging from condemnation (not too strong) to the mea culpa of their peers. Also caused a few days, in a gesture somewhat stupid some right-wing MPs, especially Mele party, the UDC, drug testing be made public.

Outrage: the voice of Secretary Lorenzo Cesa.

this man's resignation was the least I could do, while research continues, since it was discovered in flagrante committing two crimes, such as prostitution and drug possession and consumption. The condemnation of this situation was not so much what did the guy, after all this is a problem you and your wife if she uses drugs and / or makes use of prostitutes, but the response from his boss, the secretary of the UDC Lorenzo Cesa.

M. Cesa says that parliamentary life is a hard life because of the loneliness that overwhelms (he was MEP) are far from home and family, he understands that some of his colleagues pushed for the solitude to do things like this (does having sex with two women simultaneously enters into the daily life of some MP?, pussy, or Pornoland!). The reprehensible is the suggestion given by the man to avoid such things: increase the salaries of deputies so that they brought their families to Rome (Source: 6).

Excuse me?, Meaning that having a basic salary of 9,980 euros is not enough to be brought to the family moved to Rome. What is for one who earns more or less that in a year? 2. Damn!, I live with it for a year at the most expensive city in Italy, and this guy says is not enough. For Napa, the guy seems to forget that the Italian MEPs are the best paid in Europe. And they want more money, do not you think that is a slap to the taxpayer?, Do not you know that thanks to the labor laws they have passed have created a caste of workers overprotected and a horde of casual workers who survive on low-paying odd jobs ?. Are not you ashamed to earn several times that a college or high school teacher who made a thousand times more important work he of them, is it does not give them grief?. And then come and tell us it is wrong to evade taxes!, Pussy!, How do you tell someone that does not evade taxes when the money you pay is used to maintain parasites?. How would explain to Karet, for they do not understand.

Of course, these statements were strongly criticized by all the exponents of all political forces. I recall the statements given by the deputy "Rifondazione Communist Vladimir Luxuria in referring to the time that must pass an immigrant here in Italy before he could think of to bring your family.

then ask why people distrust politicians Italian, why a book like "La Casta" Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella ³ so successful. It succeeds because it reveals the kind of Italian politics: very low.

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¹ Of those that only part of the parade, no one knows and serve only to vote the party line.
² For the curious: I earn € 10,000.00 per year, which somewhat reduced after paying social insurance and the like. As a scholarship, do not pay income tax, more for the extra pay to teach me and help me stick to the laboratory 30%. 3
This book is about how the Italian political class wasted public money to benefit themselves from the influence-peddling to the simple parasitism where politicians come to do nothing. A whole Italian bestseller. I have not bought it greatly upset me after reading the first page and do not want my blood rise sharply.

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Taxes in Italy.

Italy is one of the European countries with the highest tax rates, taxing, in some cases, up to 43% of the proceeds of a person. Also is one of the European Union countries with the highest rates of evasion by the people. To give an example of this, the owner of my apartment charge me a little more (almost double) than our lease says to evade taxes, plus cash to cash provided there are no traces of that money. This behavior has evader to form a vicious circle in which people invent new ever more ingenious ways to evade taxes while the government rises to compensate for what fails to collect, to the point now where level of taxes paid has now made that both the previous government, like the present, including in its agenda of tax reduction. The truth is that ordinary people, the petty bureaucrat or business employee, who holds the Italian state to pay their taxes. How?, Very simple, direct discounting of pay, while large business owners and politicians evade most important one way or another to pay them, since the former may pay financial advisors to avoid paying, while the latter make laws and rules that exempt.

However, all these taxes fall within the Keynesian idea of \u200b\u200bredistribution of wealth, ie, the state retains some of your money to carry out works we should benefit everyone, such as schools, roads, hospitals and others. Also in this category are grants to individuals (natural or otherwise), maintenance of the bureaucracy, paying salaries to leaders killed, etc.., Etc. etc. This idea would be very noble if we ask the taxpayers if we want to take away that money, or if we could control those costs, or if they take away money is not wasted. We all know that it is not. Conversely, if the Italian state was a company should sue for breach of contract, waste of money and so on, and should return our money. That, as you can imagine, it is not.

The regular reader of this blog may be wondering what is the string point of this anti-tax, which criticized the incompetence of the Italian state 1. The reason is very simple: Italian newspapers have been publishing articles and reports in which the contempt is palpable Italian politicians by intelligence of us, the taxpayers, regardless of the ideologies they represent.

Here I am referring is a minor inconvenience that had the Prime Minister Romano Prodi and the Catholic Church because it gave a statement to the weekly Catholic "Famiglia Cristiana" in early August in which he invited the church to put their two cents in the government's fight against tax evasion. How?, Using the Sunday homily to remind the faithful that it is a sin to evade taxes, or at least it's much more ethical pay 2. While in Italy, the response was swift from both the opposition and government supporters and the church. I will not go into details about what the opposition said, as the higher tax evaders are right (as Silvio Berlusconi, for example), but some members said Prodi branded crazy and said it best not to put the church in that package. Instead, I will translate the overwhelming response given by the Father Giorgio Murano within the pages of the magazine named as:

"Dear Prodi, do we have to pay to keep alive all these situations parasitic?. And to promote removing property theft should serve the public interest?. The church must remind citizens of the moral duty to pay taxes. But it should also remind managers the duty of administering the tax authorities based on the welfare of the people.

The Church in a party knows that taxes must be paid, the other has many doubts about the way they are managed. The "mass media" (sic) we are always talking about the privileges of politicians, policy costs, many of whom are not even made public. From cathedrals in the desert that have cost millions, unused, of the bribes to be paid to the party or parties terrible crime that increases the initial cost estimates. Of useless entities that continue to live and creating new entities, patronage hiring, scandalous protection incompetent vague, enormous military expenditures. "( La Repubblica, 9/8/2007, p. 7. )

I think it's really useless to say more, because this priest briefly summarizes the discontent of those who live in this country to the state, regardless of political affiliation. Although the question arises: what is less civic evade taxes or waste them?

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¹ could use similar arguments to criticize the Venezuelan state but I do not pay taxes in my country, the payment here.
² The current government promotes the doctrine that the citizenship of a nation is measured in the number of people who pay their taxes, more people pay, the Civic is.

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Summer Reading: "How to Rule the World"

"There are few people to whom tyranny is not delightful" Samuel Johnson

conquer the world, controlling people, being the supreme dictator, or at least sel the master of a country or company, to have people who tremble at your name and tell you all the time how great you are. What would your bad jokes, or always celebrate the brilliance of your ideas. All we ever wanted it, the detail is that many of us we desire, and few ever attempt to try to be a supreme dictator. Well, dear reader, "if the idea of \u200b\u200bamassing great wealth and orchestrate the lives and minds of others you love" the book "How to Rule the World. A handbook for the aspiring dictator" ("As the World Governor. A guide for the aspiring dictator") Andre de Guillaume is for you. With a great deal of irony and cynicism, the author shows the common features present dictators, how they stay in power and qualities that a person should have to control, but the world, YOUR world.
With a gallery of strong men and women to emulate, as well as a decalogue of things you can do as a dictator and a democracy, which I quote below: Close

1. a television station or newspaper.


2. Refusing to pay accounts. Forget


3. apply for permits to the planning office.


4. Have your profile on a postage stamp.


5. Climate Change yesterday. Write


6. guaranteed bestseller.


7. Leave a double-parked car.


8. Make the trains run on time (referring to Mussolini).


9. Getting a taxi after 3:00 AM.


10. really change the government.

Of course, there are other suggestions that I find most interesting at this stage of constitutional reform, for example in the chapter "How to Run a Country" ("How to manage a country"), the author suggests three things the would-be tyrant can do once on the throne to give the idea that doing something for his subjects, and these are:

1. Rename of some major cities ("the" Queen of Guraira Repano "says something?).


2. Change Flag (add stars to the flag or change the horse's coat of arms is also true).


3. Rename the country (Republic, ahem, Bolivarian , eg, Venezuela).

Of course, when one reads these things, you can not avoid a sense of deja vu ... The author also gives ideas on how to maintain and amass more power, relations with other despots, the importance of propaganda and the power of "idea", ie the leitmotiv environment which turns your despotism, from the "This country must be governed by God" of Khomeini, the "In five years this country will be self-sufficient in food" Stalin ... "This is a peaceful but armed revolution" can also be a good idea, IMHO.

Finally, in one chapter of Guillaume reminds us that the masses usually what they want is football (or baseball) and bread, are "leaders those who call and make the revolutions. Definitely required reading in these times of constitutional changes.

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