It is necessary “to increase the purchasing power of workers, especially for low-medium incomes, women, young people, the South. The categories most affected by the crisis” but “it must not be done with bonuses and one-offs: state alms”. The president of the Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria, Riccardo Di Stefano, thus rejects the hypothesis of an incoming intervention from 1-1.5 billion to cut the contribution wedge to the government study. “We cannot accept insufficient large funds that do not produce any effect,” he warns, speaking to the “Voices. Visioni Orizzonti Culture Idee ”, organized by industrialists under 40 in Puglia. To support businesses today, more generally, “we need very quick times and strong government determination, which we do not see”.
“The resources from the tax and parafiscal excess”
Where to find the resources? “From the Def emerges a fiscal and parafiscal extra revenue that cuba 38 billion in total: these are resources that must immediately be introduced into the internal market, rewarding and increasing the purchasing power of workers,” says Riccardo Di Stefano. Industrialists under 40, he says, today feel strongly «the responsibility to carry on an entrepreneurial fabric that in the next few years will experience an even tougher international competition», and «with a monstrous public debt that we strongly feel on our shoulders. Therefore we ask and demand the utmost attention from the Government. Also the availability to intervene on the demographic curve, on entry into the labor market and professional training ».
Support the entrepreneurial fabric
At the center of the debate on the need to support wages, he adds, the need to defend the entrepreneurial fabric must also be considered: “We must strengthen our companies because they are the only weapon to return to growth: we should be obsessed with growth . With growth, public debt is paid, new families are created, new social policies can be created. The new poor, the new social needs, require an important community commitment that can only be done by increasing the gross domestic product ”. Faced with new challenges, with the increase in production costs, today – the leader of the under 40s of Confindustria continues – “” and Italian companies have bravely compressed all their margins so as not to make inflation weigh directly on Italians: data on inflation in Europe compared to those of our country confirm this. But how long will it last? We therefore need very quick times and a strong determination of the Government that we do not see “
Yes to the comparison but on the proposal of Confindustria
“We like to address these issues with the utmost respect for the Government, but with determination” added Di Stefano, answering a question on the invitation to debate that came from the Minister of Labor on the issue of the need to increase wages and on the road cut of the contribution wedge. After the heated confrontation between industrialists and ministers in recent days, the “base” of industrialists under 40 also defends the proposal of via dell’Astronomia, that of a structural cut of the 16 billion wedge. “” We made a proposal that you may like or not like, convince or not, but we ask that we start from there, that they tell us what is wrong with this proposal because we are aware that it is the only recipe to be applied in this moment”.