Sunday,
February 3, 2013. “Even imbeciles are able to invent new taxes”
says Silvio Berlusconi, explaining that he is an intelligent one who
will make the Swiss pay for it.
Silvio
Berlusconi had a vision: in the first meeting of the new ministers'
cabinet – where the newly elected Silvio will play the role of the
Economy and Finance Minister – there will be decided the scrapping
of the unpopular property tax called IMU, and the reimbursement of
the tax the Italians paid during 2012 (the media tycoon called it a «shock proposal», his rival Gianfranco
Fini, the chair of the house of representatives, has another idea, he replied on Twitter
that in his second cabinet meeting, Berlusconi would «decree
that everybody wins the lottery»).
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| Promises, promises! |
How?
In a previous attempt to convince the Italians how he would abolish
the propriety tax (when the former prime
minister faced his long-term enemy Michele Santoro on his TV show) Silvio Berlusconi declared he would raise new taxes on tobaccos,
spirits and gambling.
Then
the ex-premier of Italy realised that he needs to be (even) smarter. «Even imbeciles are
able to invent news taxes», declared the billionaire to his
supporters yesterday, on a speech in Milan, then he pledged to
convince the Swiss banks to help him to tax Italian assets and activities
in Switzerland. Not only they have to pay a one off tribute of 25
billion euro (about £21.7bn or $33.9bn), but – in Silvio's mind –
they will be keeping on paying €5bn every year.
Doesn't
it sound as a tax, Silvio? Are you an imbecile?
Anyhow,
the problem isn't exactly there - someone would argue – but in the
fact that nobody ever convinced the Swiss bankers to do so!
Never
mind, thinks Silvio, they (the new government made up by the People
of Liberty party and friends) will do it, they will convince them.
And
in the meanwhile, they take – as a loan – the money from the
postal savings system (CDP).
Simple,
isn't it?
