{"id":33979,"date":"2020-04-06T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emigrazione-notizie.org\/?p=30707"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:55:05","slug":"covid-19-nuovo-paese-di-aprile-2020-bimestrale-della-filef-australia-e-on-line-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filef.info\/index.php\/2020\/04\/06\/covid-19-nuovo-paese-di-aprile-2020-bimestrale-della-filef-australia-e-on-line-2\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: “PAURA e GENEROSITA’ FISCALE” (Fear and fiscal largesse) – da Nuovo Paese – Filef Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paura e generosit\u00e0 fiscale<\/b><\/h2>\n
di Frank Barbaro<\/strong><\/div>\n
Nel timore delle minacce recessive a causa del COVID-19, i governi \u2013 soprattutto quelli occidentali – hanno risposto varando sanatorie fiscali.<\/div>\n
Non sono stati capaci di fronteggiare le problematiche di salute pubblica per carenza di attrezzature e strutture mediche, di ricerche sulla cura o sul controllo del virus e di campagne di sicurezza basate sulla conoscenza del problema.<\/div>\n
Poi c\u2019\u00e8 l\u2019inspiegabile leggerezza di aver consentito fino a poco tempo fa l\u2019arrivo dei viaggiatori stranieri senza sottoporli a test o isolamento, per evitare la diffusione dell\u2019infezione importata.<\/div>\n
\u00c8 inspiegabile perch\u00e9 la prima risposta del governo federale (australiano,ndr)<\/em>\u00a0 agli arrivi agli inizi di febbraio, quando il coronavirus era gi\u00e0 un fenomeno conosciuto in tutto il mondo, \u00e8 stata quella di mettere la gente in quarantena a Chistmas Island.<\/div>\n
Ci\u00f2 che continua a diffondersi sono la paura e una generosit\u00e0 fiscale che non ha precedenti nei tempi moderni, e che forse supera quella delle risposte economiche keynesiane alla grande depressione e alla seconda guerra mondiale.<\/div>\n
La grande differenza \u00e8 che a livello globale l\u2019attuale malessere economico \u00e8 da identificarsi con l\u2019abbondanza, non con la scarsit\u00e0, e include il capitale inattivo le cui origini e finalit\u00e0 meritano un\u2019analisi pi\u00f9 approfondita.<\/div>\n
\u00c8 risaputo che l\u2019Australia, come altre economie mature, stava gi\u00e0 affrontando una recessione e che COVID-19 l\u2019abbia portata alla luce nel modo pi\u00f9 drammatico.<\/div>\n
Spalare denaro da quello che alla fine diventer\u00e0 un debito ingestibile non \u00e8 sufficiente, a meno che tale denaro non venga speso in programmi e progetti trasformativi e duraturi che affrontino le disuguaglianze e offrano soluzioni al malessere ambientale e sociale.<\/div>\n
Non pu\u00f2 essere usato solo per tenere a galla sistemi economici in avaria, con un benessere gonfio ma privo di qualsiasi contesto politico e di diritti umani, che rischia di creare un alibi per l\u2019inevitabile discesa nella povert\u00e0 diffusa.<\/div>\n
Per discutere in maniera responsabile di questa generosit\u00e0 si potrebbe cominciare chiedendo al Parlamento federale di annullare gli enormi tagli fiscali previsti per le alte fasce di reddito previsti per il 2024-25.<\/div>\n
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Fear and fiscal largesse<\/b><\/h2>\n
by Frank Barbaro<\/strong><\/div>\n
In fear of the recessionary threats from COVID-19 governments – Western mainly – responded by creating fiscal sanatoriums.<\/div>\n
They were less adept in dealing with public health aspects with shortcomings in medical equipment and facilities, research into curing or controlling the virus and knowledge based safety campaigns.<\/div>\n
Then there are the inexplicable blunders of allowing until recently the disembarkment of incoming overseas travellers without testing and isolation to avoid spread of the still imported infection.<\/div>\n
It\u2019s inexplicable because the Federal Government\u2019s first response to arrivals in early February when the coronavirus \u2013 as the pandemic was then known \u2013 came to world attention, was to quarantine people on Christmas Island.<\/div>\n
What continue to spread are fear and a fiscal largesse that is unprecedented in modern times and perhaps surpasses that of Keynesian economic responses to the great Depression and post WWII.<\/div>\n
The big difference is that globally the current economic malaise is framed by abundance, not scarcity, and that includes idle capital whose origin and purpose deserve better analysis.<\/div>\n
It is generally recognised that Australia, like other mature economies, was facing a recession and that COVID-19 has brought this home in the most dramatic way.<\/div>\n
Shovelling money from what will eventually become unmanageable debt is not sufficient unless it\u2019s spent on transformative and lasting programs and projects that tackle inequity and offer solutions to environmental and social malaise.<\/div>\n
It cannot be used just to keep afloat failing economic systems with a bloated welfare devoid of any political and human rights context that risks creating an alibi for the inevitable descent into widespread pauperism.<\/div>\n
A good start in arguing for better accountability of this largesse is to call on the Federal Parliament to rescind the massive tax cuts for high income earners legislated for 2024-25.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Could COVID-19 be a vaccine against Neoliberalism?<\/h2>\n

by Gaetano Greco<\/strong><\/p>\n

For over forty years the economic pandemic of Neoliberalism that has underpinned the global economy and commodified our social relations has now been fundamentally exposed given the coronavirus pandemic has killed and infected thousands of people and virtually grounded us all to a stop.<\/p>\n

Without a doubt the lock-downs, business shutdowns and social and economic insecurity have dramatically revealed the weakness of the free market\u2019s \u2018just in time\u2019 economy, the unreliability of its private sector and the inadequacy of our health care system.<\/p>\n

But in the midst of witnessing one of the greatest social and economic failures of modern times, will Neoliberalism be called out for what it is \u2013 a failed ideology!<\/p>\n

On the surface most governments have responded with a heavy dose of public intervention and public spending to control the virus and its impact while we wait for a medical vaccine.<\/p>\n

However will these measures help us overcome the impact of the virus in the long term? Or will the mantra of Neoliberalism continue to triumph with its call for future economic austerity to make up for the government handouts.<\/p>\n

Moreover, since we have exhausted 9\/11 and terrorism as a justification for exceptional circumstances will governments acquire more totalitarian powers to constrain democracy, ratchet up surveillance and promulgate fear propaganda in the name of safety to occupy us.<\/p>\n

The fact is that it took such a pandemic to reluctantly force Neoliberals to act as did governments during the Great Depression when social security and the New Deal were introduced.<\/p>\n

To some extent these earlier structural changes were implemented to ward off the excesses of capitalism and help conserve it. Instead as we saw during the GFC, today\u2019s relief packages are in themselves infused with Neoliberal trickle-down economics which bailout large corporations and pump money into (and through) private corporations rather than directly supporting and prioritising citizens.<\/p>\n

While COVID-19 could be a vaccine for Neoliberalism we need to ensure it doesn\u2019t mutate into a more draconian ideology if we want to live in a humane society and not an economy.<\/p>\n

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SCARICA<\/a> o Leggi la rivista Nuovo Paese<\/h2>\nNP-aprile 2020<\/a>\n

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