Economy and Infrastructure
I’m publishing a part of my speech on the 11 points of Italia dei Valori’s political programme dealt with at Vasto: economy and infrastructure.
”We have already said and we will repeat: what’s needed is less bureaucracy for the companies and a greater decrease in the taxation for investment in research.
On the one hand what is needed is a more massive liberalisation of those public services that can be supplied in a non-essential competitive situation and on the other hand a direct management of those services that by definition cannot be carried out except in a monopoly situation. I believe, so that we understand each other, in the privatization of rail transport (that can be carried out by more than one company) but not in the privatization of the railway network (given that the rail track where the trains have to go is just one). I am thinking of the privatization of the service of rubbish collection (that can be carried out by more than one competitor) but not for the management of water (given that the pipes and mechanisms are just those that exist). And so on.
Now allow me also to summarize here even in a short version what I have said in the name of IDV, to the meeting at Cernobbio last week: we don’t want to block economic and infrastructure development. We don’t want to align ourselves with the paranoia of the hard core: “No to everything” but neither can we accept that in the name of the politics of action, that the only thing that is done is that the Italians are taken for a ride.
Having said this at the beginning, we know that there is no convergence between the infrastructure that is needed by the country and the resources needed to create this. And for this reason we have developed a “vision of priorities” that we want to use for discussions without prejudice both with the allies of the PD as well as with the political forces of the government majority.
First of all, the work that has been started and is in progress must be completed and that is among others to avoid even throwing away the work done and the money spent. I am referring to the Mestre bypass, to the doubling of the Naples-Turin rail track, but also to the numerous bridges, tunnels and various other work that is unfinished here and there in every corner of the country, sometimes because they have run out of money, sometimes because of difficulties in the planning or the execution of the plans, and also at times because of exhausting political blocks and polemics.
Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in
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