“Up salaries and cut the tax wedge” –

Benedict Antonelli

August 22, 2024

Matteo Salvini is the one who spent almost the entire day at the Rimini Meeting yesterday. Budget, construction sites, highway code; but also ius scholae and immigration. The deputy prime minister and leader of the League touched on all the hot topics of the moment. And it is precisely regarding the financial law that will be discussed in detail in September, that the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure indicated the priority: «We must be able to maintain the great operation of tax cuts for employees carried out last year: for more than 13 million workers with more than 10 billion invested, with net increases in their paychecks that even exceeded 100 euros per month. And therefore find, in a complicated moment like this, the 10 billion to confirm these salary increases and tax cuts for those with incomes of up to 35 thousand euros. This is the government’s priority». Then, as far as the League is concerned, he adds, “our historic battle to bring home by the end of the Legislature is the overcoming of the Fornero Law, which is an unfair law that blocks workers on the job even in non-optimal conditions and closes those work spaces to young people. The commitment of the League and the government remains.”

At the Meeting, Salvini also visited the area dedicated to the Bridge over the Strait, where a virtual crossing of the large infrastructure was set up, thanks to a visor. «There are 239 questions from the Ministry of the Environment to which 239 answers will be given by September, so it is clear that if they took 4 more months to give all the environmental guarantees, the answers will arrive.

The goal remains to approve the final project and start construction within the year”. On the ius scholae, however, supported by Forza Italia, the leader of the League closes all doors: “It is not a priority and it is not on the government agenda.

I don’t want to argue. Italy is the European country that grants more citizenships than anyone else. We grant more citizenships to foreign citizens than France, Spain, Germany. So a law that is good should not be changed.”