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The first steps of federalism, the mayors of 20% were just off the road?

Federalism begins to show its true face, the veil fall and we are left with an illusion that you are filling and emptying of contents taxes! He had already realized that something was wrong when the first measure was the delivery of state-owned property to municipalities, Provinces and Regions: These institutions are finding with charges more for preservations and restoration rather than more wealth to invest in the territory! Then took shape a better remake of the old "tax family", which until the early '70s saw the mayors and councilors in debt collectors to hunt for money, and now the possibility to introduce new additional excise duties and levies different! In a nutshell: new taxes!

An area that gives both the state and received only crumbs of the last financial data found in the grim confirmation: the wealth produced from land that is called income tax, not even 5% more return on our common who would have been halved the already skinny transfers ( Castelfranco Veneto in Rome in 2007 sent a € 87 million income tax and received back 5). With the launch of back federalism will receive even less: a reduction of 1 million euro per year, in the meantime, until 2013: this is the effect of the strategy of the government, instead of leaving the territory for a greater share of the wealth produced , stripping it even more than previously!

We were told for years that federalism meant fairness, responsibility , but also the wealth produced by a territory that remains on the ground: we should not be " Paroni at home"? Well, is not the case and confirm the previous complaint, and feared by the mayors who have made the battle of 20% IRPEF: Rome, in fact, rather than leaving more resources to the municipalities, with the approval of the League, it leaves less, virtually 2% to 5% instead of the poor already here, who was returning from Rome.

In October 2008, 450 mayors from Veneto tricolor flag had gone to ask the Government a ' anticipation of federalism. He said waiting for this reform that needs a long time - and it was feared was going to end as we see - we just let that territory 20% of the wealth, hold well in Rome 80% and we arrange it, we provide services and public works, without asking more subsidies or transfers ! The answer was: No, federalism will solve your problems!

Today we see it take shape, federalism, as a new drain on the citizens who are already harassed by a tax burden that has no competitors in Europe because there are really at the top! And we will see whether the reform will start to seem really not to pay even those who already pay!

I'm really sorry that were not listened to the mayors or the thousands of citizens throughout the Veneto region had signed on to support this campaign: that federalism as we had understood was to mean even greater respect for the role and dignity of the territory and local authorities that are closest to citizens. Instead everything is decided increasingly less and less in the center and periphery, with the devastating effects that we see every day now, with a stability pact unfairly marked by linear cuts Tremonti condemning the same fate Public and agencies responsible spenders, with an economy that is still far from recovering its great driving force, the unemployment now 2 digits (we are officially 8, 2%), with many families in need and young people less confident in the future.

There is still a way to do something? To hear the voice of those who do not show a decline that seems inevitable ? I see both places institutional both within civil society, political parties and movements which seek to give voice to the widespread unease that is felt in our communities and not for power, but to propose alternatives and practicable. There are young men and women, that a spirit of genuine service and citizenship are being spent to back at the center of the political priorities of our country true to its history and its dignity can continue to play a decisive role in economic and political in the development of the European Union. People who want look ahead to the future, who want to work for the country with an agenda of concrete priorities and closer to the people.

Will our heroes ...? I really hope so!

Maria Gomiero , former Mayor of Castelfranco Veneto