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Citizenship Income – Considerations
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I would like to begin this article by making a premise: let’s highlight the substantial difference between a “Newspaper” and a “Blog.”
A Newspaper must be registered with the appropriate court. It has civil and criminal responsibilities and must therefore be limited to acting as a spokesperson for facts that have happened objectively.
A Blog reports articles expressing the voice of the author which may or may not be agreeable and has, except in cases of offenses or other offenses attributable to the person, no legal repercussions.
I have made this premise because in this article I will express what are MY personal ideas about “Citizenship Income,” ideas that may or may not be shared, the important thing is to keep the conversation and any comments on a level of mutual exchange of ideas as in the best expression of concept of civility.
What is citizenship income
The Citizenship Income is a form of social cushion, implemented thanks to the money provided by the company Italy. This means that all working citizens and consumers, by paying taxes, contribute to making this economic aid possible for those who are less fortunate and are in such an economic situation that they cannot provide for their livelihood. Put on this level, it doesn’t make a dent!
Let me clarify from the outset that I personally am NOT against the Citizenship Income, because I believe that everyone has the right to have their own dignity of life. I am against the way this form of income has been structured because, and this is a fact, structured in this way, it has created enormous harm to businesses. This is evidenced by the fact that, with unemployment still skyrocketing, in past years hardly any entrepreneurs had complained about not being able to find staff today we hear of nothing else… We will then also open a brief parenthesis on the responsibilities of entrepreneurs.
Italy is a very unique country, which differs from other EU countries where there is a strong work culture, which is also “blamed” on our climate and the wonderful places we have. Basically in Italy, we have (I would say fortunately from the point of view of tourism and landscape) many alternatives and distractions from work.
There are Italians and Italians. There are virtuous people who do not “rest on their laurels”: they lose their jobs and are willing to do anything to be able to go back to work and bring their hard-earned paycheck home according to the old saying that “work ennobles man,” but it is equally true that there are plenty of Italians who literally take advantage of the RoC situation to indulge in a nice indefinite vacation at the expense of the state and thus of their fellow countrymen who produce.
This is a strong phrase, I know, but I know personally, individuals who receive citizenship income and facing the topic, they even seem to snub the “fools” who get up in the morning to go to work. Although fortunately these represent a small reality, you will understand that it is a situation that does not please those who instead work hard to bring a hard-earned paycheck home, and who actively contribute to the payment of the tax brackets that the state levies on businesses and workers.
Yet the law says that employment centers should offer jobs to these people and that on the third offer refused, entitlement to citizenship income should be terminated.
Employment centers?
In two words: none to be had!
No organization. As of March 2022, more than one million people were receiving the citizenship income with an average amount of 581 euros per month.
Data in hand, the situation worsens both as the amount received and the number of people receiving the RoC from the north to the south.
Job centers are supposed to guarantee the famous 3 job offers, after which the income is taken away…. Personally, I don’t think I’ve ever talked to anyone whose Citizenship Income was taken away because they were sent 3 rejected job offers; in most cases, after months of sustenance they are still waiting for the first call.
As I said at the beginning of the article, it is only fair to put ourselves in the shoes of a person who is out of work at 50…. It is difficult for young people to find work, let alone a 50-year-old man! He will receive his NASpI when looking for work and at the end of this he will be forced to apply for citizenship income. If this person is actively looking for work and cannot find it with all his efforts, it is right and sacrosanct that he be helped by the state, we are not animals! A fellow countryman of ours in difficulty MUST BE HELPED! And this I do not say this out of a form of populism, but because as a person who when he could help did so, I firmly believe it. But at the same time it is not possible to continue feeding, for a small part fortunately, a livelihood system that is taken for the famous “Tourist Forever” scratch card.
The problem is in the structuring
My reasoning is very simple. If an Italian citizen receives citizenship income and is therefore paid by Italians, it means that he or she works for the state and should therefore be in the service of the community. There is a job sector that frames this: “Socially useful work.” Keeping the streets clean, taking care of municipal greenery, maintaining parks, and many other services that come in handy for the community and that, due to lack of funds, are being put on the back burner today. On this topic then a parenthesis should be opened related to the civic education of individual citizens who litter, but this is not the place to discuss it.
Dedicating people receiving citizenship income to socially useful work is not only beneficial, but also justifies an income according to the aforementioned saying that “work ennobles man.”
This approach would prove to be an excellent deterrent to the phantom “forever tourists” and would make the citizenship income recipient actively seek new employment. Of course, working hours should be congruent with the income received. Even a few hours a day would suffice.
The responsibilities of entrepreneurs
So far we have analyzed the problems from the perspective of income earners, let’s also go over the wizards seen and reviewed on the entrepreneurial front.
First among them. Offering underpaid jobs bordering on “caporalato.” If an entrepreneur offers 700 euros for a full-time position as a Barista, a citizenship income recipient at 680 euros a month is bound to say, “No, thanks! I’ll stay home,” and I would add. He would do WELL!
Reform for the RoC was to be followed by inspections of the pay parts so that they were congruent with the employee’s classification.
What “seems to elude” the great economists who govern us is that a country’s economy is not manifested solely by the amount of currency circulating, but more importantly by the speed with which this currency changes hands.
According to the “Fordism” current, increasing wages to employees corresponds to an increase in receipts for businesses. It sounds like a platitude, but if a worker has greater economic capacity, he or she is highly likely to put more money into circulation, fueling the economic flow and thus the cash holdings of businesses.
In Italy, except for the energy situation we are experiencing, with increases in primary energy sources identifiable mainly in gas and electricity of 500%, it is becoming really very difficult to do business.
We Italians are very lucky. Geographically we are a child within the cradle of Europe, with a mild climate surrounded by “gentle” seas. We have the largest variety of agronomic products in the world, and we could serenely sustain ourselves both energetically and productively. The problem is that for mostly political causes we are forced to buy electricity, gas and products from abroad, many of which are of far inferior quality to what we produce here only because there is an agreement made by others without our being able to intervene in any way.
From the perspective of some entrepreneurs, it is impossible to give higher salaries because there is no economic cash flow to guarantee a year-end operating profit. Businesses are literally being bled dry by taxes and the cost of raw materials and energy sources; therefore, if anything, the fault lies not so much with the entrepreneurs themselves as with a system that forces entrepreneurs to make below-cost job proposals to try to make ends meet.
Different discussion is for those who have good cash liquidity but exploit the situation in their favor…. These are the classic “furbetti del quartierino,” i.e., those who offer off-the-books jobs to those receiving citizenship income. I don’t think there is even a need to comment.
Conclusions
Continuing to pay salaries without getting anything in return is no longer possible, and this is an objective thing given the accumulated economic debt that is currently supposed to be around 2600 billion euros. Reforms must be made and they must be made immediately because at this rate the situation will continue to worsen and I dare not imagine in what condition we will ever be able to leave this Italy to our children.
