2023-11-12 19:13:03
The most disturbing thing in the case of the horizontal taxation of freelancers is the moral dimension of the matter. The convenience store of the nature of the transaction, i.e. its cheapness. Since I can’t get hold of you, you who don’t pay tax and live at the expense of everyone else, let’s agree to give something and we’ll settle. This is the logic behind the transaction. Either for reasons of reluctance or for reasons of the actual inability of the state to track down tax evaders (eg, through subsistence presumptions), it resorts to a kind of compromise. The illegal ones are legitimized by giving something symbolic, and the state collects something, supposedly to return it in the form of services to the taxpayers. Both sides lose something and gain something. Tax evaders continue to live at the expense of the rest, since the projected income for the state is a small percentage of tax evasion, but, after all, something is being done.
Is this enough being done? Can I be satisfied? I put it in the first person, because I was personally concerned with the subject. First it made me angry, then the anger turned to frustration, finally, the frustration gave way to a more balanced view of the issue, which I developed in the previous paragraph. And then, the president Stefanos Kasselakis came… The president of SYRIZA came and his statement with which he pledged to abolish the specific half-meter (let’s say so for the economy of speech), so all my concerns evaporated. If the choice ends up being half meters or no meters at all, I choose the former and don’t discuss it. Indeed, if the fraud of tax evasion is embellished, exalted as a “social need” and “justice”, as in the statements of Mr. Kasselakis, then tolerance of tax evasion moves to a higher stage and tax evasion becomes accepted.
Half-measures are also the law on the recruitment process of administrators in large state organizations. No, because in the end the minister will choose one of the three candidates. This is to some extent reasonable, since the minister himself will have to work closely with the commander. It is a half-measure, on the one hand because by law the salaries are ridiculous in relation to the weight of the responsibilities and, on the other hand, because there are organizations, such as e.g. the hospitals, which don’t even have balance sheets. The measure may be nice and well designed, but it is not the link in a chain that leads somewhere. It is a link in itself. Therefore, you do not call it a great reform, because it is not.
Perhaps the best element of the procedure established by this law is that it indirectly introduces limitations of a qualitative nature to the minister’s freedom of choice. Since the minister will have to choose one of the finalists, who meet the quality requirements as defined by law, he no longer has the right to appoint the owner of his favorite gas station to the position of hospital administrator. To be precise, again the minister will be able to appoint the gas station of his liking or his booth, but on the condition that the gas station has, for example, a medical degree, serious professional experience in the health services and manages to pass the final. A bit difficult, as you understand, but not completely impossible. But because it is not improbable it is also democratic, since it does not in principle exclude the petrol pump for his professional status. In theory, he could be a very good doctor or a distinguished astrophysicist and, at the same time, have a vulcanizer as a hobby and run a vulcanizer shop! Are we to exclude man because his hobby alienates us?
In terms of reforms, then, my impression is that so far we are comfortable with shades of grey. But there is no other choice. The others are shades of black.
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