According to the left, immigrants are essential to sustaining our own welfare systemor to pay our pensions. How can this belief be reconciled with the Istat datafrom which it appears that 35.6% of foreigners – that is, more than one in three – live in absolute poverty, is a mystery. Those who are unable to pay the rent, child support and struggle to ensure their family has a decent daily meal, I don’t think are able to take on the social security allowance of Italians.
If we then consider that, year after year, the share of immigrants who are unable to reach minimum subsistence levels is growing, with a leap of ten percentage points in ten years, we discover that the left’s narrative is a colossal lie. Thus we begin to understand what we have been maintaining for some time, namely that with the new arrivals we are not financing theInpsbut we are only importing poor people, who will inevitably be paid by the body presided over by Gabriele Fava. Who, in addition to pensions, has the task of providing non-refundable welfare benefits, i.e. without the payment of any contributory compensation.
The short circuit of welfare spending and tax bills
However, anyone who is still not convinced of this should read the latest report from Social security itinerariesan institute specialized in analyzes of the national welfare system. In addition to highlighting one of the great Italian anomalies, namely the fact that, out of a population of 58 million inhabitants, 24.8 million people do not pay a single euro in taxes, the study underlines how in our country spending on welfare is growing dramatically, to the point of eating up a large part of the taxes which, incidentally, are paid exclusively by just over half of the population. The professor Alberto Brambillawho is responsible for Social Security Itineraries, explains that in the public budget 138.33 billion go towards health spending, 180.5 towards social assistance and another 13.5 are added due to the welfare of local authorities.
Total: 325.7 billion, i.e. everything that taxpayers pay in the form of Irpef, Ires, Irap, additional territorial taxes, plus another 7 billion in indirect taxes.
In practice, the expense of insuring what we call Social status you eat more than the taxman collects in the form of income taxes. Together with the percentage of taxpayers who do not contribute, that is, who do not pay a euro in taxes, this is one of the great Italian paradoxes because, if all the money paid by those who produce wealth goes into social spending, there is none left for investments and development. «With the result», observes Brambilla, «that our country is last in Europe for growth, but also for productivity». However, returning to the issue of immigrants and their support for Italian pensions, but also to the contribution given to general taxation, another inconsistency is highlighted in the Itinerari social security report. While the left complains about the fact that Italians are increasingly poorer (obviously due to the right), the study informs us that in 16 years welfare spending has more than doubled, going from 73 to over 180 billion, without the poverty rate having reduced. Indeed, to be honest, in Italian families the percentage has fallen slightly, settling at around 6.3% but, as we said, it has increased among foreign ones, which in ten years have gone from 25 to 35%. At this point a question is inevitable: who, then, does the money for assistance go to?
The social security mirage and the increase in non-repayable protection
It doesn’t take much to sum up: if the number of poor immigrants is growing, it is very likely – even if it is not officially declared in the report – that the phenomenon will be accompanied by an increase in welfare measures against poverty in favor of foreigners. Moreover, if poverty affects non-Italian citizens to a greater extent, with an incidence five times higher than that of natives, the aid will follow suit and the beneficiaries will be those almost 2 million immigrants who, according to Istat, have incomes below subsistence level. Therefore, rather than paying our pension, the new arrivals take away a piece of it.
