Giorgia Meloni chases away the ghost of the assets. The Prime Minister responded to the proposal of the tax for the super rich relaunched by the general secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini as part of the discussions on the Budget being examined by Parliament.
A solidarity contribution of 1% to the highest wealth in Italy, which provoked an immediate outcry from the majority and which however does not even find unequivocal support from the broad field.
Landini’s assets
Maurizio Landini returned to his idea of patrimony, presented at the Palazzo Chigi table with the unions on the 2026 budget law, at the assembly of CGIL delegates.
The secretary of the union has proposed a solidarity contribution of 1% on assets exceeding 2 million euros, which would concern around 500 thousand. According to the trade unionist, the intervention would bring 26 billion into the state coffers, to be dedicated in the budget to spending on work, welfare, wages, pensions and investments.
Giorgia Meloni’s response
The hypothesis of a tax levy on the rich has always been a taboo in the center-right and this time too the government did not hesitate to send any hypothesis of capital back to the sender.
Maurizio Landini and the center-left received the response without room for negotiation from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni:
The patrimonials reappear cyclically in the proposals of the left. It is reassuring to know that, with the right in government, they will never see the light
The reaction of the opposition
The Prime Minister’s outing immediately triggered a more or less decisive reaction from the opposition. The rejoinder from Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein was lukewarm, in favor of the introduction of a wealth tax for the rich, but if introduced at a European level.
“With Giorgia Meloni in government, the tax burden has risen to 42.8%, the highest in the last ten years. The government’s data says so, not the Democratic Party’s. The Meloni government has increased taxes for everyone. And to make matters worse, in the next budget it intervenes on Irpef and helps the richest again instead of the middle class which has become impoverished. Istat says so, that 85% of the resources will go to the richest families. How does he wake up this morning? and attacks the opposition? Will his government be remembered as the one for bloodletting Italian families and businesses and for aid to the richest”
The stop in the wide field comes from the president of the M5s Giuseppe Conte who, although he does not give up on attacking Giorgia Meloni on the Maneuver, makes some distinctions on the financial position:
These super taxed assets will not provide great resources to resolve emergencies
On the levy on the super rich, the response from the secretary of the Italian Left, Nicola Fratoianni, who has always been a supporter of the tax, was not long in coming:
The Prime Minister tells us via tweet that it is reassuring to know that with the right in government there will never be assets. I say that it is not at all reassuring that with the right in government the number of people in poverty increases, that – as happened between 2023 and 2024 – the number of Italians who give up treatment because they can no longer afford it increases by 1 million.
