Giorgia Meloni's attack on the wealth tax: what the Prime Minister said

The Meloni government has responded harshly to the wealth tax issue, once again launched by the broad center-left to combat inequality and fund schools, healthcare, and welfare. Here is Prime Minister Meloni 's clear and direct announcement.

Meloni's government, the prime minister's accusation regarding the wealth tax: "With the right, it will never see the light of day."

During the debate on the budget law , as every year, the topic of the wealth tax returns, strongly supported by the broad centre-left (Avs and Pd), as a measure to reduce inequalities and finance schools, healthcare and welfare.

Here's what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni responded: " Wealth taxes cyclically reappear in the left's proposals. It's reassuring to know that, with the right in government, they will never see the light of day ," was the prime minister's clear and direct message in a post on X.

The opposition parties' response

"Meloni claims that her government is the most reassuring on taxes. Perhaps for American banks and web giants. If we're talking about Italian families and businesses, Meloni has set a record for tax pressure in the last 10 years, increased excise duties, and VAT. I even gave you a book on the taxes they've raised; have you read it? Faced with €25 billion in taxes that have eaten away purchasing power, do you think you can get away with it by throwing it into a ruckus and giving workers €2 a month?" M5S leader Giuseppe Conte attacked on social media.

Avs: "Poverty has increased under Meloni"

“It is not at all reassuring that with the right-wing in government the number of people living in poverty is increasing, and that – as happened between 2023 and 2024 – the number of Italians who are giving up on healthcare because they can no longer afford it is increasing by 1 million,” said Nicola Fratoianni of Avs in response to Giorgia Meloni ’s statements on the wealth tax , speaking to Skytg24 during the program Agenda.

“ Just as it is not at all reassuring to know – continues the SI leader – that the salaries of the majority of Italians in this country, the only case in Europe, have been substantially stagnant or going backwards for thirty years , while the cost of living continues to rise.

It would be enough —concludes Fratoianni of Avs— for the ministers of the Meloni government to go out and talk to real people, and I'm not talking about the so-called poor workers, those for whom a measure like a minimum wage would be needed (though the right has said no to that too, as is well known), but I'm talking about the vast majority of Italians who see wages stagnant and the cost of living skyrocketing. Perhaps they would understand one thing: how can one make a living in these conditions?

Bonelli, Avs: "Poor abandoned people"

Meloni writes that with the right in government, there will never be any wealth taxes . The reality is that the Meloni government has increased the tax burden to 42.8% . Who pays? Always the same people: workers and pensioners. The right defends the rich and has abandoned the poor, who are getting poorer year after year. Absolute poverty in Italy has reached the scandalous figure of 5.7 million people. And with the Meloni government, the number of people who have given up on healthcare has risen to 1.3 million, going from 4.5 million to 5.8 million.

"In Italy, there are 62 super-rich people with a combined net worth of €200 billion. Why shouldn't the super-rich contribute to public healthcare and increase salaries and pensions, which are among the lowest in Europe? We ," concludes Angelo Bonelli, MP for AVS and co-spokesperson for the Greens, " are on the side of the poor and the middle class. Meloni is on the side of the super-rich and defends a system that is increasingly socially unjust. After all, she has already said no—along with Trump—to the global minimum tax on large multinationals."