Minister Giorgetti talks about “Denatality emergency“But the only real emergency is the unsustainability of a” public “system that has transformed Italy into a place where it is no longer worth living, nor work, let alone have children. The numbers shout it, in 10 years: -31% of births, +1 million emigrants, of which over 360 thousand young people under 35, often graduates, the best go away. 35% of taxpayers are more than 65 years old; Those below 45 dropped to 31%. Each worker finances an abnormal way a social security system that will not return anything to him.
It is not a question of demography. It is a rational escape from a failed system, the statist system. The distribution pension system (another rotten fruit of the statism) on which the INPS and the coffers rests, is a “legalized bridge”: it holds up until quite new tax slaves, and is in any case unfair and harassment. Today the contribution base collapses, and nobody says it clearly. Instead of the hand, the great reform continues to bring to only desperate, in the hope that they will become “resources”.
It is true that in the economically freelast countries in the world – Switzerland, Singapore, Ireland, Taiwan, Luxembourg – the birth rates are still low. But in those contexts the material conditions are not destroyed to bring children to the world: dignified incomes, sustainable tax loads, efficient services, economic freedom. In Italy, however, Young people not only have no children: they run away. Only in 2024 (Meloni government) over 21 thousand graduates between 25 and 34 years of age, +20% compared to 2023.
The OECD estimates that over a third of Italian teenagers today intends to emigrate today. If those who work, study and produce are systematically penalized, there can be no incentive to the birth rate it holds. The government, instead of blaming bonuses and incentives, should have the courage to tell the truth: The system is dead. It immediately serves to study a transitory phase for exiting the obligation to contribute to the ELG (distribution system) and the introduction of freedom of social security choice, through individual capitalization systems.
It is the only serious reform to be set in this legislatureif you still want to talk about the future. Everything else is the management of the decline. The Italian state – which at best is a necessary evil – must be reduced to a minimum. Cut cuts are needed for all unproductive expenditure. Pension, assistance, public health and redistribution are only elephantiache machines that generate dependence, debt and stagnation and which in the end crown everyone. Those who work have the right to choose how to build old age.
The Italian state no longer has any moral legitimacy nor technique to manage anyone’s pension. And as long as this knot is not faced, it will not be the cradles that empty themselves, but the whole country.
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