In one of his recent story books Woody Allen tells us about a certain Milo Vorpich who, upon the collapse of Merrill Lynch, put everything he had inside the mattress, and when the new government decided to allocate two billion in incentives to the owners of mattresses full of money, Mr. Vorpich was an advantage, especially since his mattress was a double bed mattress!
It would seem that Allen's imagination has pushed the boundaries of the surreal, beyond the limit of the paradox. And instead, to stay in recent years, Italy has outclassed the great New York author, far surpassing him in imagination and paradoxes.
The growing pervasiveness ofinterventionism of statist governments he has generated monstrosities and bonuses galore, polluting the market and the country's already limping economy, with measures so original that Allen is an amateur in comparison. So we were given, in no particular and summary order, an 80 euro bonus, a 100 euro bonus, a bonus for car scrapping, scrapping household appliances, a tap bonus, a window bonus, a 90% bonus for facades and so on, working with creativity until we reached the superbonus 110%, the masterpiece! The taxpayer is convinced that he can have everything for free, and so he pays double.
Public debt in absurd growth, inflation out of control for the construction sector, with a distorted growth bubble first and then a collapse of companies in free fall, with terrible consequences and tensions also in the labor market.
Bonus generators are always in action: they pollute and distort the market and then they go around saying that the market is polluted and therefore doesn't work. With a further deleterious consequence: hordes of fake entrepreneurs are generated who “live on bonuses”, specialize in receiving benefits from public tenders and compete unfairly with non-subsidised entrepreneurs.
He wrote Sergio Ricossa in his extraordinary “The dangers of solidarity” (Rizzoli – 1993): “An incompetent industrialist does not satisfy customers. If we leave it to the market, competition will inexorably lead to failure. The industrialist, incompetent in economics but astute in politics, asks for 'social' help, that is, he asks for public money so as not to fire, he says, one hundred or one thousand workers. In fact he is nine times out of ten a selfish antisocial, who wastes community resources (resources that the community could use better) by pretending to care about employees, pretending to be in solidarity with them. Political help arrives, with or without bribes, and a hundred or a thousand honest workers are transformed into accomplices of the scoundrel, earning and forcing the community to pay more than the value of what they produce. The helped industrialist becomes an unfair competitor, who damages the unaided industrialists. The bad industrialist drives out the good industrialists, the market economy little by little ceases to function and is accused of being a disastrous system”.
We wait for the bonus for mattress manufacturers stuffed with money.
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