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Conferences, party get-togethers, moments of dialogue with other political forces, are important, but only in so far as they are dealing with concrete things, discussing the priorities of the country and they take decisions in the interests of the citizens. On the side of the citizens, this is our commitment.
We would like citizens to have more money available for both development and for solidarity.
For this to happen we need more money to come into the coffers of the State, this is why the fight against tax dodging is the prime commitment that Italia dei Valori has to put in its governing plan and that it needs to be supported by its allies.
Fighting tax-dodging also means opportunity. What we are asking for and we continue to ask for is to make it possible to deduct from the taxed sum all the expenses, so as to place the buyer on a par with the seller.
It’s not possible that even today, the seller asks “with or without invoice?”. The current regulations induce crime on this point, because both parties have an advantage if there’s no invoice and they save. We must make it an advantage for the one who buys to have an invoice. The only way to do this is for them to be able to deduct it from taxes.
I have talked about economic policies, of fiscal policies, of the vitality of the entrepreneurial system, of the commitment of Italia dei Valori to regulate natural monopolies, of the need for commitment for true competition that means giving everyone the same starting basis.
I have talked to you of the need to safeguard the strategic networks so that the country functions. But there is the risk of liberal extremism that is transforming the liberal model into a feudal model in which the only ones that win are the strongest, the most arrogant and the “local wide boys”.
Where it is suggested that the market is the only way to govern the economy. And yet that is not so.
We want to start off with a fact. Once the threshold of the year 2000 passed economic liberism has won out against the Soviet communism, but from the moment it won, it risks producing even more serious anomalies if they are not corrected in time.
We believe in a free market economy, in liberal democracy and we believe that our freedom finishes where the other’s ends. However, we believe that freedom does not mean arbitrariness and above all that freedom must not kill off solidarity.
This is why Italia dei Valori is placed at a European level, and is an integral part, in that liberal democratic area that in the European Parliament sees us with other parties, in the ELDR, who want to put together a liberal economic development model and a social solidarity model that does not abandon the weakest social classes.
The Internet will do for information what Totò’s leveler did: put everyone on an equal footing.
The Internet, the global information system, will allow everyone to talk with the rest of the world and for everyone in the world to talk to everyone else.
Our children will have the capacity, the intelligence, the courage, the strength to be participants themselves in information and through that in a direct and participated democracy.
This is why, as a citizen and as a party representative I am not afraid. I challenge modernity. We are the first to do so. And we are accepting the opportunities that are available through the Internet.